Cartridge naming FAILs

The official Britsh designation for the cartridge was:

Cartridge S.A. Ball .303 inch Cordite Mark (whatever it was at various points in time).
 
Time will tell...

The cartridge name is important for branding & creating popularity.

26 Nosler

IMHO, a big mistake on Nosler's part.

...bug :)
 
I know a guy who created (he said) the ".14 Flea"

Its a necked down .25acp case, fired out of a Contender.


why? Just because he could...
 
Now that I think about it...

IMHO .45GAP is a stupid name for a cartridge, and I wonder how much more successful it would have been had Glock given it a different name.

I understand why they didn't name it the .45 Glock, as this could cause confusion with the pre-existing .45ACP Glock 21, but the acronym "Gap" doesn't create a particularly positive or confidence-inspiring image. :rolleyes:
 
Yep.
Some people just have to mess with things, so they can say they did it....

.10 Eichelberger Long Rifle, and its family, come to mind (.22 LR necked to .10, .12, and .14 caliber). And Eichelberger didn't even both using lathe-turned centerfire .22 LR cases - he stuck with rimfire hulls.


Wildcat names are usually more interesting than commercial offerings....
I know a guy that's currently building a second rifle for his wildcat cartridge. He initially called it ".400 Selway" (after the area he lives in), but after seeing how it performed, the second rifle will be marked, ".401 Weasel Grinder."
It uses a .284 Win case to drive .401" swaged bullets, made using .380 Auto cases for jackets, to about 2,800 fps. Between the large caliber and fairly fragile bullets at decent velocity, it tends to leave varmints looking like they got dropped into an industrial grinder on the 'extra coarse' setting.
 
Whenever I see a post by carguychris, I think of Smith & Wesson semi-auto pistols. (1st, 2nd, 3rd Gens, metal guns, pre-plastic, I mean)

When I think of 3rd Gens & "cartridge name FAILs", the easy & obvious one is the .356 TSW.

Say what? You've never heard of it? :confused:

Definitely an ignorant name. It just screams "yeah, we wanted to be different." It probably deserved it's fate.
 
Sevens said:
Whenever I see a post by carguychris, I think of Smith & Wesson semi-auto pistols. (1st, 2nd, 3rd Gens, metal guns, pre-plastic, I mean)

When I think of 3rd Gens & "cartridge name FAILs", the easy & obvious one is the .356 TSW.

Say what? You've never heard of it?
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Of course I've heard about it, I just forgot about it. :o

Doesn't that name seem like it belongs on a USAF organizational chart? ;) (Tactical Support Wing?)

Speaking of S&W cartridge fails, let's not forget the .38 AMU, which was basically a slightly modified rimless .38Spl mid-range wadcutter(!) designed for the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (hence "AMU"). The idea was easier feeding in the S&W Model 39-1, which was rechristened as the Model 52, for consistency with the nominal S&W tradition of using different model numbers for different chamberings. However, S&W figured out how to make standard .38Spl mid-range wadcutters feed reliably, and wound up producing the .38Spl version as the M52 and the .38 AMU version as the M52-A. However, very few shooters were interested in a hyper-specialized target competition cartridge (as with the later .356 TSW... :rolleyes:) and IIRC only about 100 M52-A's were ever produced.
 
Oh, just to be clear, when I said "You've never heard of it?!", it was to a general audience of folks... who most likely missed the existence of this round. Certainly not to you. ;)
 
Then, there are some that just have Sense of humor......

P.O. Ackley, in attempts to hit the magical 5,000 fops threshold, gave birth to a .22 atop a .378 Weatherby case that he playfully(?) named the .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer.
The cartridge failed to achieve the hoped for velocities and I doubt any still exist.
 
You know, when you think about it, its really not as easy as it might seem, if your cartridge is only slightly different from something commercial.

7mm Shooting Times Westerner? I know where it came from, but isn't it a mouthful?

We have magnums, we have short magnums, we have super short magnums, and we even have Ultra Magnums. Are we someday going to see the .300 nee plus ultra magnum?

One day while messing around, I ran a .270 case into the .35cal expander die. Case mouth expanded fine, but the shoulder collapsed, looking kind of like an accordion. I promptly christened it the .350 Suspendered Magnum (after all, it certainly wasn't "belted")

Never could figure out how to cut a chamber that would work, so that dream died in the pipe....

Names from legend are appearing now, Beowulf, Grendl...are we going to see the .30 Wraith (for suppressed weapons?), or .17 Hobbit? one can take this too fae..er far, after all...
 
This one isn't so much a naming failure, it just never took off. The .41 AE, it was available in the Jericho 941/Baby Eagle guns. It's basically the same ballistics as a .40 S&W, which ended up replacing the .41 AE in the Jericho 941/Baby Eagle. The name 941 comes from 9mm and .41AE so perhaps the real failure was the name since the .41 AE was dropped and lived a short life. It was the same concept as the .50AE with .44 Magnum. Nifty idea but not in a wide spread gun so it was a failure.
 
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