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I like many of us have been through many rifles/cartridges. The cycle goes like this. I see, read about or hear of some new thing.Thing being a new rifle, cartridge or combination of the two.
So I acquire one out of curiosity or just to have something new to play with.
I would guess that more than likely this new fascination doesn’t last long for numerous reasons including accuracy, rifle fit and weight, a bad experience in the field etc. in the end, usually in a year or two it gets sold or traded.
Now what gets me excited is hunting with a proven pal that once again feels good to carry and by it’s usage I bring home a critter! Rifles in the exciting group get there by performance at the range and in the mountains of Arizona. These are mostly pre-64 Winchester’s and Ruger 1’s. Three calibers dominate this list , they are 257 Roberts, 270 Winchester and the 7x57 Mauser.
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a unique name with marketing really helps like the name Creedmoor and yes the 6.5 Creedmoor is a good cartridge too , so who knows what will be next in a new cartridge ? myself this year i killed a buck with my 257 Weatherby .Mag. a 50 some year old cartridge and a doe with a 256 Newton a 100 year old rifle and cartridge, so i guess for hunting cartridges go : i am way behind with todays trend of new cartridges. next year will be a inherited old Pre-64 30-06 i guess i am going the wrong direction in cartridge selection, but sure is fun reloading old neat cartridges and shooting these old unique rifles ! Interesting that you think the 257 Weatherby mag is a 50 year old cartridge. Roy used it on his 1948 Safari that`s why i posted a 50 year old some cartridge, but thanks for the little correction i feel so much better it came out in 1944. That was 77 years ago.
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Whats exciting is knowing I have at least one rifle capable of taking any animal that walks on this earth. Double rifles with external hammers are exciting as well,
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Not sure what makes it exciting but right now I like the looks of the new 6mm ARC. I suppose for that cartridge I like the idea of a super efficient 6mm. Large enough to take deer with and shoot to 1K if I have a notion all while not kicking the slobber out of me. I know it was meant to be an AR compatible round but I am interested in it as a bolt gun round. Tine will tell if it catches on and I will be patient for a year or two to see what happens with it.
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I don't give a chit about excitement... I use a 308 Win. 
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A 30.06 is pretty exciting !!!!! When it just exited a 197 6/8 typical whitetail.....
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Power. On the other hand, "exciting" is over-rated. Besides, it's an expensive thrill. 30mm autocannon with belts of HEI is exciting. Shooting finger-size brass thimbles of powder is going to depend on circumstances for excitement. The cartridge itself won't do much in that way. Nevertheless, the cartridge I'm most heavily invested in isn't intended for excitement at all. On the contrary, I depend on it to bring any excitement to a quick end and restore peace and tranquility.
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6.5x55.
I'd like to try the 6.5x47 as well.
I'd also imagine that a .505 Gibbs would be rather exciting.
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Lately the name Grendel or Creedmore seems to blow some folks skirt up.
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Advertising and the press, including gun writers.
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Advertising and the press, including gun writers. Don't forget the herd mentality thing as well. 5 yrs ago here on the Fire, the 6.5CM was uber kool. Now it's uber ghey, right along side the 270Win.
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275 rigby and any big nitro express. They take me to a time and place I will never be able to truly experience
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Any cartridge that kills deer sized game with very little recoil is exciting to me
Good bullets properly placed always work, but not everyone knows what good bullets are, or can reliably place them in the field
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I have mentioned here before, and I still believe, the way a cartridge sounds when it's pronounced has more than anything else to do with it's popularity. For every popular cartridge out there, there will be one or more at least as good or arguably better that flopped or, at least, is significantly less popular just for the way the name rolls off the tongue. I've never heard this theory but it makes about as much sense as anything. The 6.5 Creedmoor has two things going for it...first, "six point five." I mean, it's PRECISE - down to the decimal point, not like just a "six" or a "seven" or an "eight" millimeter. And if you pronounce the second half with just a hint of "Moor" (like Othello) versus "more", oh, Katie bar the door... Yeah, I know we had the "six point five" Remington Magnum, but that was back when we were all metric bigots, so it failed. We're woke now... However it happened, it was a marketing miracle (combined with a good cartridge too). But that one doesn't really excite me so much. In fact, I resisted the whole fad up until I had picked up about 300 rounds of Hornady 6.5CM brass at the range and figured (since i already had all the bullets and powder, and only needed dies), I'd check it out with a $274 TC Compass. And can anyone even dare to suggest that a .275 Rigby is not much more exciting than a 7mm Mauser (which, of course, lacks any decimal points at all, whereas the .275 goes to THREE significant figures, and then ends with Harry Selby's favorite suffix). And the .275 Rigby does excite me these days as I am in the final stages of building one in a very old school way - 1903 Springfield with Griffin & Howe side mount and Lyman 48. But the one that is really exciting me these days is the .256 Newton. I have an FN Mauser in the works with nothing left to go but the bluing and stock finish. And all the other loading things I need to get going on this sweet, sweet round are already in place! Yes, I lie awake nights... Ooops, I got to rambling and totally forgot the OP doesn't care anything about the rifles we're putting them in (even though, largely, that may be what makes the little brass bottles exciting). So, all these excite me, and many are partly because of the rifles they fit: .275 Rigby .256 Newton .358 Winchester .35 Whelen Ackley Improved .270 Winchester Short Magnum .338-06 6 mm Remington (which for some strange reason, even though I don't yet own one, I find far more exciting than the .244 Remington, which defies my hypotheses above. Though the .244 Remington is clearly at least one thousandth more exciting than the .243 Winchester) .22 Hornet .257 Roberts 9.3 x 62 Mauser (it gets even more exciting if you use a comma instead of a dot! Try it out...9,3 x 62 Mauser...see? That's how Lapua headstamps mine, and it does, really, excite me.) 9.5 x 57 Mauser (yes, "nine point five", not "nine point three" - even rarer!) Even these really, really, boring rounds excite me: .30-06 Springfield .308 Winchester .270 Winchester .30 WCF (which is, of course, much more exciting than the .30-30) I read back over this post and conclude perhaps I am too easily excited. I might even be a little on the looney side. Maybe this didn't contribute much to the OP's quest, but it's all true. All of those, and more, excite me. A lot. Cheers, Rex 6mm rem is a great cartridge. You should try one out.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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I'm probably a bad one to ask. I still get excited by the 30-30
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The fact that I don't own a rifle in that caliber is sufficient.
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What makes a cartridge exciting? What cartridge makes you get up each day with sunshine flooding the room, just itching for another astonishing and stimulating adventure with it instead of waking up to a commonplace, unsurprising day with the .30-06? The first shot with my 12ga Featherlight Ithaca 37 Deerslayer was a 2 3/4" magnum slug load. When I touched her off it was an "EXCITING, ASTONISHING, STIMULATING, SURPRISING, ADVENTURE!" After years of shooting whitetail I had gunsmith, Bob Currey, find a smooth bore, shorten to 21" screw in turkey choke tubes, D&T and mount a Leupold 2.5, shorten stock and I then had a turkey gun. Was always wonderment when shot. For me that gun made the 12ga cartridge exciting every time I touched it off.
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For me, exciting cartridges are exotic ones that not everybody has but that have a long history.
The 6.5x54mm Mannlicher Schoenaur is one example.
Another is the .375 H&H.
If I were younger and hunted in the woods a lot, I might try to make or get a .400 Whelan.
To me, nothing would be asboring as a 6.5CM.
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Nostalgia would really be the only thing that makes a cartridge exciting to me. It's why the 38 WCF, a cartridge that tends to be WAY more trouble than it's worth, always has a place in my house.Dad borrowed Grand Dad's 92 to use as his first deer rifle. It worked after a fashion. The same rifle was the first center fire I ever shot. That's why there's a bunch of 38 WCF around the place.
Now for the the seven month old kitten in the house, she's all about the empty case. '06 and 308 are her favorites right now. She'll knock those all around the basement.
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Not much on the latest, trend, whiz-bang, part of the in crowd, smoke and mirrors, BS ......my favorite cartridge has been around for 108 years. But, I didn’t buy immediately.....waited a few years for it to prove it’s worth!  memtb
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