What handgun caliber would you rather never hear about again?

The common wildcats like 9x23Winchester, .356TSW, 9mmMarkov, .38Super, etc.
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Wildcat?
Those are all factory loads. The .38 Super has been in production for 80+ years and the Mak served half the world as the Iron Curtain sidearm.
The definition I learned for wildcat was a non-factory round produced by die forming, fireforming or other brass modification. But heck, that was 50 years ago, maybe the Internet Definition has mutated.
 
As long as they are making guns that shoot it they can have as many calibers as they want. I'll just buy the ones I need for the guns I have.
 
We have to be careful this doesn't turn into a caliber war because I don't think moderation wants to see any more caliber wars...just a thought...
 
I can only really think of 2.

The 10mm. My first gun, gifted to me by my father was a 10mm. I still have it and absolutely love the cartridge. I just hate that I can't get other guns in this cartridge! I want a Bobcat-Commander 1911 10mm quite badly...

The new .327FM. I looked for over a year for Ruger's Sp101 when I heard this was in development. After finally tracking one down, I was quite happy with it. That is until I have to buy more ammo for it. The only thing local shops carry is 20-rnd boxes of PD ammo. I don't presently have enough brass piled up, nor the time, to do any respectable reloading for target practice. I can't even find .32H&R's to stuff in it. And possibly worst of all, I really want a new levergun to match my revolver! I'll keep my fingers crossed, but it seems unlikely.


Otherwise, I don't really have a problem with any cartridge. I don't like them all, but I just don't buy them. To each their own.
 
Variety is the spice of life ... I'm not sure I'd want to see any calibers die. Though like someone else said the 45 GAP is kind of a solution-without-a-problem round.
 
I don't want to see it go away, but I do get tired of hearing about the .327 cartridge. Guns are hard to track down and ammo is worse and I almost think the thing was DOA before it hit the shelves.
 
Glock makes some great 10mm guns. I love their sub-compact 10mm...just think of the little .38 snubbie in an ankle holster in those old time good guy/bad guy movies that someone pulls out and changes the course of everything...except you'd have 11 rounds of freaking 10mm...pretty potent stuff!
 
The ones I think are a total waste of production imo are...

45gap
.327 Magnum
.357 Sig


...and I'm also sick of hearing people put the .40SW on a pedestal. I like it but its not the end all round. Get a better 9mm round or a .45ACP and you will have the same or better outcome. Just because some U.S. agencies use that round does not mean its the top dog.
 
do you think if they got rid of these niche calibers, manufacturers would focus more on the "traditional" calibers, .22lr, 357, 9mm, 40, 45, 44, etc, and that the price of the traditional calibers would drop because of greater supply and not having to support multiple production lines for different calibers?

or would there still be some jackhole who wants to build a gun around some custom cartridge because nothing on the market meets their caliber performance/specification

or are the manuf companies conspiring against us to raise up prices and demand by conspiring with each other to artifically limit supply
 
With the 45 ACP and 45 Colt in existence for 100+ years... why were additional handgun rounds even conceived??? I say poop-can all other handgun calibers! LOL
 
9 mm. It's not powerful enough for my tastes, and for like ten years all you heard was some punk kid saying "I'm gonna pull my 9 and bust a cap in yo #$$". .40 is a much better round in my opinion and 10 mm is better yet. I also like .357 Sig because I like the feeding of bottlenecked cartridges.
 
I know it ain't a handgun (I welcome all handgun carts!). It's all the hundreds of "useless" "magnum" rifle rounds that I'd rather never hear about. The kind of power they put out seems little more than "look how big my rifle's chamber is!" bragging rights or "look how many thousand yards away the deer was!" bragging rights. In 1940, we had all the full size rifle rounds we needed. Just my opinion.

Edit: I welcome all handgun carts, because they're usually trying to fit the most power into the smallest package. With rifles, they seem to just try to "go big or go home."
 
Many of us are reloader's and we should embrace any and all "odd" calibers. Yes some are were a waste of time but they are part of ammo history either way.

Whoever said .40 is a "Niche" caliber must be missing all of the ammo on the shelves at pretty much any store that sells ammo! .40 is here to stay forever!:rolleyes:
 
Get rid of .327 and .41
You can keep .357 and the .44 magnum
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there...fixed it for you. :)

As a reloader, I am far more impressed by the .41 than the .44 and .357 put together...and I've owned all of them.
I plan on adding 10mm to my repertoire soon. :)
 
I like all calibers.

IMO there are no bad calibers be they for rifles or handguns. There are just different calibers for different purposes. It's all good.

The choices for shooting enthusiast have never been better and there seems to be no end to product innovation by the industry. We should all shout out a big THANK YOU to every part of the firearms industry. If you don't think so just journey back to 1950 and see what was available.
 
I would have said 25 Rimfire, but I found a pristine Crackshot that was beggin' for life. I put her back on the shelf with a tear in my eye.
 
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