Posted on 03/23/2015 7:35:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
The myriad selection of rifle cartridges today has a metric ton of overlap, duplication, and some downright silly designs. Some of these designs boast wonderful claims, but not all of them measure up. In order to be overrated, you have to be rated at all, so that leaves some of the more obscure designs off the menu.
I’m well aware that I’m going to be taking a lot of flak for this article, no matter which cartridges I were to pick, so let me give you some details to start with. When you sit down to make your voodoo doll of me, you need to be as realistic as possible, I’m six feet tall, bald, blue eyes, and the goatee is graying. Accuracy counts in the voodoo-curse world as well.
That said, I have to pick five, and I know someone will come away with hurt feelings, but I’m going to throw caution to wind and do this anyway. “Overrated” is a tough term. It doesn’t mean that the cartridges I’m going to pick are bad, or even that they don’t work, it means that I feel that the glorification of them may not live up to the actual performance. Let’s roll.
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.223? Well I guess 5.56 is good then.
As an ex soldier, I say 5.56mm sucks. 7.62mm is far superior, and with the right weapon you can achieve almost zero recoil and great accuracy and range with far superior stopping power.
My 77 Ruger chambered for .223 with a 3 x 9 Leupold is death to ground squirrels out on the ranch.
My brother-in-law is all in for 5.56, and he killed a lot of Muzzies in Bush’s wars. You know what they say about brother-in-laws? Well, I don’t either, but he seems to know what he’s talking about.
Shooters of 30-06 and .270 are generally happier than other people. Scientific fact.
I’m not saying they don’t work, I’m simply saying 7.62mm is far superior and I have ten years and three tours so I also know what I’m about.
Especially if that .30-06 comes out of an M1 Garand.
I love these threads.
IMO this guy is being a revisionist douche bag by taking a 2015 view on many 1950-1960 cartridges that have taken more game than he ever will.
Just about everything he mentioned will still put meat in the freezer.
The .223 is a very useful cartridge and so is the .300 Weatherby Magnum.
I agree with the other 3 tho.
Yeah, everybody’s gotta be mad about something these days, right? Nifty little piece. Thanks for posting. And it didn’t stop me loving my 220 Sweet.
Did you shoot the M14 then? Wasn’t that a great rifle?
Got both.
I am a very happy camper.
The FN. M-14 was American. I’m ex Canadian infantry. We did use the C-7 too, which was a modified M-16, and it’s a pea shooter. I always opted for the 12 gauge over that thing in close environments or the C-9 which you would call a SAW.
5.56mm
.270 smile to you.
7.62x39 ? Ha. </s>
Active Duty ping.
Add .308 as a great all around round.
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