Thread: Cartridge popularity survey. Gibo, this one aint for you.

Greetings,
It was interesting to see the differences between Jim's list and that of the other respondents. Also what was missing from both lists.
GPM.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Exactly.
The "Americanisation" of our sport here annoys me. Every time I get an advertising email from Hardy nowadays I want to puke. Not because of their products but because of how they now promote them. Same for some of the NZ YouTube hunting vids - they are more like a marine military exercise than a good old hunting trip. We are losing our unique identity to this stuff.
And since when did a water bottle become a Nalgene?? FFS

The "Americanisation" aspect is true and something I have seen also steadily happening over some time. Maybe annoying but inevitable I think due to the huge resources ths USA pours into hunting and shooting sports ( investment, product development, social media promotion, competition ete, etc ). Personally for all the benefits available to me as a hunter, handloader I can tolerate the "Americanisation". In fact the current state of affairs, generally, may be the best we have ever had in certain regards.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Exactly.
The "Americanisation" of our sport here annoys me. Every time I get an advertising email from Hardy nowadays I want to puke. Not because of their products but because of how they now promote them. Same for some of the NZ YouTube hunting vids - they are more like a marine military exercise than a good old hunting trip. We are losing our unique identity to this stuff.
And since when did a water bottle become a Nalgene?? FFS

Since rangefinding thermal imaging equipment came about

Last month I took my fallow stag at 230 meters with a 160 gr Accubond going at 2600 fps from my 7mm08 Kimber Montana. I sold my 280AI as I was just not using it.

Most hunters would consider 2600 fps for a 160 gr bullet to be rather pedestrian. I was using my Leupold VX3 in 2.5-8X with Boone and Crockett reticle. Zero at 100 meters, next dot down is 200 meters and next dot down is 250 meters.

The same scope setting with 139 gr bullets at 2800 fps is zero at 200 meters, then 300 & 350 meters.

I have stopped experimenting and mucking around for the last 15 years.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Since rangefinding thermal imaging equipment came about

Ha ha. Nice.

Straight out of China though, that thermal stuff. They have got the smarts on the Americans.

And look. Still called water bottles. https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesa...AaAneLEALw_wcB

Originally Posted by Tahr

The ordinary dude here is thanlkfully mostly visible, there mostly invisible. America is now defined by how social media and the general media portray them, which I find quite unpalatable.
But as you say they role their eyes. Our family over there cope by ignoring it all. And really, they are hardly affected by anything National. It's Federal and local stuff that affects them and that they have a greater interest in.
As for advertising hype the fact remains that a lot of people here are getting hooked and its seeping into our hunting culture.

Craig asked me if he had left his Nalgene in my ute and I didn't know what the hell he was talking about

Next time, just tell him the Nalgene is next to the Progene. Then that will be the both of you confused.

When we’re talking just plain old general hunting and not for a specific purpose, I’m not surprised one bit. I choose a 270 when I started out, don’t know why that particular cartridge at the time, it just made sense and I never regretted it. Same goes for the 308/30-06/7rem mag for others. They just plain work and there’s not much out there that made a significant improvement across the board when you take deep dive into the ballistics.
Nowadays, if I was starting out, I would probably go for a 7mm08/6.5Creed as a modern general purpose, flexible cartridge. Splitting the choice in two, the 6.5grendal for close work and a 22creed for everything else.

A lot of great products come out of the USA.
As long as you have a turbo strength bullshit filter to cut through all the hype, you're ok.

Agree 100% Tahr
Still love the Nalgene I won from Mountain Safety Council. Didn't know it was a thing

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Good to see the lack of waffeling on with a load of irrelavant crap, just gets straight into it.

Haha, made my day this thread, I tried to buy a 270 last night but missed out. But I joined the great unwashed this morning with one in a Tikka. Instead of a 30-284. Sometimes boring is good.

Greetings,
No mention of the latest crop of extra large cartridges either.
GPM.

Originally Posted by Tahr

I would choose an old 6.5 swede thanks.

Ha ha ha I really thought you would respond with a vixen or forester my humour first up is never good

A statistical sample of 800 out of 107 000 000 firearm owners... hmmm. That's a whopping 0.0000074766% of the population of US gun owners, before you even start taking bias into account. Make of that what you will.

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

A statistical sample of 800 out of 107 000 000 firearm owners... hmmm. That's a whopping 0.0000074766% of the population of US gun owners, before you even start taking bias into account. Make of that what you will.

Exactly. As soon as I saw .223 wasn't at the top I knew it was skewed.