I'm going with .223 since my rebuilt shoulder can't take more in terms of recoil. Plus there are a wide variety of rifles and pistols chambered for it. Thus I am stocked pretty well in .223.
The recoil problem brought .300BLK to my attention. Now that I can load my own it has a place on my list, too. It's nice having a .30 cal bullet with essentially .223 recoil. I'm short a bolt action in this caliber but the new Mossberg MVP .300BLK might be a less expensive consideration to the Remington 700.
I'd rather not have many calibers but I like the idea of a lever action .30-30, just because I like lever actions, especially now that Hornady has that plastic tipped pointy bullet to give it the extra reach a flat-nosed bullet lacks (as discussed by the author). My .44-40 was originally a rifle round but I doubt it has anywhere near the same ballistic coefficient.
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JakeLonergan 10 years, 11 months ago
I'm going with .223 since my rebuilt shoulder can't take more in terms of recoil. Plus there are a wide variety of rifles and pistols chambered for it. Thus I am stocked pretty well in .223.
The recoil problem brought .300BLK to my attention. Now that I can load my own it has a place on my list, too. It's nice having a .30 cal bullet with essentially .223 recoil. I'm short a bolt action in this caliber but the new Mossberg MVP .300BLK might be a less expensive consideration to the Remington 700.
I'd rather not have many calibers but I like the idea of a lever action .30-30, just because I like lever actions, especially now that Hornady has that plastic tipped pointy bullet to give it the extra reach a flat-nosed bullet lacks (as discussed by the author). My .44-40 was originally a rifle round but I doubt it has anywhere near the same ballistic coefficient.
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