Guy Miner
Master Loader
- Apr 6, 2006
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Not surprising I suppose, but dang, I do seem to have a real attraction for using cartridges designed for, or adopted by, the military...
223/5.56mm, I do shoot my AR-15 quite a bit. Great little cartridge, mostly I think of it as my "coyote" rifle these days.
308 Win/7.62mm, My most accurate rifle and the most-fired of all my center-fire rifles over the past couple of decades. What a sweetheart of a cartridge! Easy to load, easy to shoot, and very effective the few times I've used it on game.
30-06, ya sometimes folks forget this was our standard military rifle & machinegun cartridge for decades! What a great hunting cartridge it has proven to be.
45/70, oh my... Yes the old warhorse was a military cartridge, and along with many others, I've enjoyed handloading, target shooting and hunting with the big ol' beast of a cartridge.
9mm pistol - I carry one often. A nice little compact pistol that literally fits in a pocket. I'm content with it for much of my personal defense needs, and wasn't long ago that ol' Phil Shoemaker clobbered a big Alaskan brown bear with his! Yikes!
45 pistol - my most used center-fire pistol. I've loaded and fired tens of thousands of 45 ACP rounds. Goodness. What a great cartridge. Mellow. Easy to load. Easy to shoot. Still formidable a century later.
Apparently I gravitate towards those cartridges, perhaps because of my military history? Perhaps because I like the well-proven, well-tested aspect of those cartridges? Who knows. They work, and I like 'em.
Do I like other? OF COURSE!
Who else shoots military cartridges?
Guy
223/5.56mm, I do shoot my AR-15 quite a bit. Great little cartridge, mostly I think of it as my "coyote" rifle these days.
308 Win/7.62mm, My most accurate rifle and the most-fired of all my center-fire rifles over the past couple of decades. What a sweetheart of a cartridge! Easy to load, easy to shoot, and very effective the few times I've used it on game.
30-06, ya sometimes folks forget this was our standard military rifle & machinegun cartridge for decades! What a great hunting cartridge it has proven to be.
45/70, oh my... Yes the old warhorse was a military cartridge, and along with many others, I've enjoyed handloading, target shooting and hunting with the big ol' beast of a cartridge.
9mm pistol - I carry one often. A nice little compact pistol that literally fits in a pocket. I'm content with it for much of my personal defense needs, and wasn't long ago that ol' Phil Shoemaker clobbered a big Alaskan brown bear with his! Yikes!
45 pistol - my most used center-fire pistol. I've loaded and fired tens of thousands of 45 ACP rounds. Goodness. What a great cartridge. Mellow. Easy to load. Easy to shoot. Still formidable a century later.
Apparently I gravitate towards those cartridges, perhaps because of my military history? Perhaps because I like the well-proven, well-tested aspect of those cartridges? Who knows. They work, and I like 'em.
Do I like other? OF COURSE!
Who else shoots military cartridges?
Guy