Hated calibers

Top of my list would be the 45GAP. Maybe the 45SUPER as well. Nothing wrong with the time tested 45ACP and its wide range of loadings and capabilities.
 
There are any reasons to "hate" a caliber. Performance,popular opinion, or maybe a bad experience. I would guess that influence of others is the biggest. If it ain't cool then we don't want it. I personaly don't care for the performance of 38spl or 9mm but hate is a strong word. One of the things about American Gun Lovers that make us the way we are is there is so many choices oiut there. We like our right to bear arms and freedome of speech. Our personal choice in style and cal. is reflected in this. We also like to influance those around us to share our views. That said right here on this websight we respect eachother and share info that we all enjoy as opinion.
 
You might "hate" a particular gun - you know, the one that FTF, sprays around the target while on a rest, looks ugly - like that! You just throw it against the wall, or drive over it several times! :mad:

But hate a caliber? I don't know. What's a caliber ever done to you? :D
 
For the record, the 1,200 fps (actually chrono'd @1,240 avg) is my load, using 300 grain Oregon Trail hardcast. But look at Buffalo Bore's website, and you will find hotter rounds still in .45 Colt. Now, there's a round I love!
 
It's more of a recoil issue, therefore weak strength is a factor.:rolleyes:

People just hate the recoil of the .40S&W, plus they're not accurate to handle the bang.

I personally love the .40&W, very accurate and manageable.
 
I confess to being a liberal in this matter. I pay no attention to calibers that don't interest me, if others like them, fine. Now if someone GAVE me a 40 S&W, .357 Sig (steel frame of course)......
 
. I mean, I have a .40 "short and weak", and while it won't send 300 grains of lead out at 1,200 fps like my .45, it doesn't seem all that weak
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I agree. I would never refer to a .40 SW as short and weak. By some accounts, the performance of a .40 exceeds the performace of a .45ACP. That is when the .45 is fired from a short (3") barrel wherein expansion may not be reliable.

As far as why the .40 inspires rants, I think that people who are ignorant of the .40's capabilities are quick to attach the "short and weak" tag to it.

Next time someone refers to your .40 as short and weak, ask them if they would like to step down range for some quick ballistic testing.
 
I don't seem to get along well with the 40S&W. I have never shot a gun in 40S&W that I really liked or that I wouldn't have liked better in 9mm. The round has just never worked well for me.
 
Can't say I hate any, but nowadays with ammo costs being what they are...... look and see what you get when you buy .32 or .25 ammo. A pipsqueak round, no power and lots of $$.
 
How 'Bout the 9mm Federal?

Lots of additional outdated stuff came to mind when I saw this post:

.32 S&W
.38 S&W
.44 Russian
.32-40
.45 Rimless, etc., etc.

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For the way things are going, I have contemplated getting a .32... every time I go to buy ammunition the places I go are out of most everything, except .32.

The round I hated was .30 Luger: The ammunition was hard to find, expensive, old, and didn't work very well. I think I would like .30 Tokarev better if it would gain commercial popularity.
 
I love 'em all, but I don't own 'em all.

ditto #16; oh-so-NOT-ditto #28 (ignorant of repeatedly demonstrated 3"/45 ACP HP performance).

Chamberings I've dropped: 38 Super, 10mm, 41 Magnum, 45 Colt.
Dropped the Super to finance a Redhawk buy, dropped the 10mm because it offered nothing numerous other chambering could, dropped the 41 and 45 fpor the same reasons.
 
In this case, Hate = like least

Because I don't actively hate any calibers. But there are several I do not like much, if at all, and others where I do not like the attitudes of the major proponents of the round, even though the round itself may have uses.

Also, I am a contrary fellow by nature, and often like the most popular choices less, simply because they are so popular. 9mm Parabellum falls into that category for me.

Every caliber has a niche, and a valid purpose, at least in the eyes of its designers and makers. Some however seem to have no vaid use in the real world, compared to those rounds they compete against, except to be found in a particular style of platform.

I don't have any use for the .40/10mm/41 cal rounds. A personal thing to be sure, but nothing I use a gun for benefits in any way from choosing anyone of these class of rounds, or their common platforms. I see no reason for the .45 GAP, except to sell a new model of Glock. I can see value in the .357 Sig, but not in the be all, end all attitude of some of the people who have them.

The lowly .25ACP, the most crapped on centerfire cartridge out there, still exists and sells, because it does one thing well. It feeds. Out classed in actual results by the .22LR, even in identical guns, the .25 keeps going because it feeds in those guns, where the .22 cannot claim the same degree of reliability. And a mouse gun that works is better than one that jams.

Handgun cartridges go though a Darwinian evolution process, and it is tied directly to the guns themselves. The guns go a long way to determining how popular, and lasting a round is. When was the last time you saw a new top break .38S&W? Why is there no GLock chambered for the 8mm Nambu? The simple answer is that no one (besides a handful fo collectors) would buy them.
 
Hate bullets, not people ...

I have a certain amount of hate I need to direct at something. Instead of all those annoying people I know, I direct it at inanimate objects or, in the case of cartridges, more "concepts" than objects. So I pick a couple out and hate them, just because
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I like that - if more people thought that way the world would be a better place. :)

But back to the OP - I think some folks "love" certain cartridges, and that leads them to "hate" others. For example, some who love the 45 ACP tend to hate the 9mm for being an accomplice in substituting that " inferior furrin pistol" for the All American 1911 in our armed forces.

And almost everyone loves to hate the 380 for one reason or another.
 
I agree Gunguy. That is one pitiful round. We have an old .32 breaktop H&R belly gun floating around in my family. Legend surrounds it, but that's another story. Moccassins, you are indeed pardoned. Someday, you'll see the light and realize that a .45 Colt Blackhawk with "Ruger only" loads is just the thing to have on your hip in the woods, just in case you encounter one of God's creatures that you wish to eat, or vice versa.
 
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