What is the most pointless caliber?

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In my opinion the most pointless well known cartridges are the 224 Valkyrie and 6.8 SPC. The Valkyrie was intended to use heavier projectiles than the 223 Remington for better BC values however both can use the 90gr high BC projectiles and the Valkyrie only has about 100 extra fps compared to the 223 when using those and they're identical with lighter bullets. I don't see why someone would hunt down the Valkyrie when 223 can already do everything it can and they've probably already got a gun chambered for it. The 6.8 SPC had some merit at it's time of introduction, however since then, the 300 AAC Blackout cartridge has arrived and 7.62×39 ar-15s now exist, so I don't see why anyone would chase the proprietary magazines, rare uppers, expensive ammo, and rare projectiles associated with 6.8 SPC, especially considering 7.62×39 performance comes close to it, and with 6.5 Creedmoor around, the case becomes even worse for the 6.8 SPC. What is the most pointless cartridge?

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BCA6010 | 297 opinions shared on Other topic.

Guru

6.8 SPC easily wins this, in my opinion.

There's basically nothing it does that 6.5 Grendel doesn't do just as well or better, plus the 6.5 handily outperforms it over longer ranges.

The.224 is a niche bullet, but it does outperform the 5.56 as a longer range paper-puncher, as intended. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.

.300AAC is also niche. It's only good for suppressed shooting at shorter ranges, is otherwise very similar to 7.62x39 (which I also wouldn't use given other options), and the only significant advantage it holds is that you can get away with shorter barrels than the 5.56 without sacrificing too much performance. On the note of short range suppressed shooting, I'd throw the.458 SOCOM into this bin too.

6.5 Creedmoor is a good cartridge, but there's also about a dozen others like the.260 Remington that are all almost the same thing with very miniscule differences. In fact the.264 caliber ballpark of ammunition is probably the most over-saturated caliber, but it along with 6mm are by far the most popular picks for PRS competition shooting.

Answer 2

Matt57 | 588 opinions shared on Other topic.

Yoda

Any specialty caliber that are more than a buck a round. 7.62 is fine since it’s a common Battle Rifle Caliber, but When it comes to like 9x21, 7.92 mm Mauser, .50 cal, or anything like that, I just don’t get it. Like to play around with it’s fine, but having enough ammo for training and potentially having to use it if things go fucky is gonna be super expensive. My grandmother just recently won a Henry Big Boy in.45 Colt and finding ammo for it is an even bigger bitch than finding the more common stuff right now.

MrOracle

1 mo
20 years ago, you could buy crates of 8mm surplus for dirt cheap, so feeding an old Mauser was easy. Obviously that post-cold-war surplus has dried up, but plenty of people bought it cheap and stacked it deep...

Answer 3

MrOracle

20 years ago, you could buy crates of 8mm surplus for dirt cheap, so feeding an old Mauser was easy. Obviously that post-cold-war surplus has dried up, but plenty of people bought it cheap and stacked it deep...

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winterfox10 | 2.3K opinions shared on Other topic.

Master

0.338 Lapua. That shit's prohibitively expensive, and the only time you would ever notice the difference between that and other sniper cartridges is when you're in a peek-a-boo match with an olympic level marksman in a super crowded place, and he's using civilians for cover.

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White_King2000

Xper 5

.44 Bulldog. I got these rounds cheap along with a British Bulldog revolver. Terrible ballistics, no stopping power at close range if you managed to hit anything.

Jersey2

1 mo
Son of Sam’s choice of weapon if I recall correctly.

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Jersey2

Son of Sam’s choice of weapon if I recall correctly.

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captain_voidwalker | 99 opinions shared on Other topic.

Xper 6

I'd gave to say.25 acp. Frankly you can get more power and accuracy from a sling shot and a steel ball

Jersey2

1 mo
I don’t know about that but they do kill people. Interesting article:

www.nytimes.com/.../deadly-bullets-guns.html

Inhave heard many times that the.22 kills more people overall, mainly because they are cheap and therefore all over the place in every area.

Answer 8

Jersey2

I don’t know about that but they do kill people. Interesting article:

www.nytimes.com/.../deadly-bullets-guns.html

Inhave heard many times that the.22 kills more people overall, mainly because they are cheap and therefore all over the place in every area.

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FakeNIK

Xper 5

I think 7.62 is much better...

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9Livezzz

Xper 5

Pellets for a pellet gun 🤣🤣

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KrakenAttackin | 472 opinions shared on Other topic.

Yoda

Not so much worthless just didn't catch on.

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R3DthatDude | 221 opinions shared on Other topic.

Explorer

BB caliber pellets

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Nayyr

Xper 7

All of them

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taveuni

Xper 4

.338 lapua magnum

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