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For many years I have collected cartridges, many of them from foreign manufacture as well as domestic. I have this penchant for items that look fast and are well proportioned. I like sleek boats, cars and airplanes. There is nothing that can compare to a Ford F-40 or a Triumph Bonneville of the late 60's or the North American P-51 D airplane. Hirschoff designed some of the worlds most beautiful sail boats. Then there is the coach work of Pininferina the coach builder for many of Itlay's finest sports cars. All of these objects look as though they are ment to simply look fast while not in motion. Thus I decided to find the best proportioned cartridge in my collection. To each one of us beauty is in the eye of the beholder therefore there will never be a perfect looking cartridge that can be agreed upon by all. I looked at some 100 rounds more or less just to check my preception of what I felt to be the perfectly shaped round. This is not based on any thing to do with ballistics it is simply form.

My personal favorite, best looking round is the......6.5 x 55 Swede it has to my eye the best proportinal lines of all cartridges ever commercially made.

What is your favorite round to look at.

Bullwnkl.

338 RUM

257Wby.................

.222 Rem.

425 WR

.45-70 Government (it just looks like death).

Bullwnkl,

I was thinking of the 6.5x55mm Swede while still reading your post!

Great minds eh? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'll bet some of you guys like chunky chicks, too... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Short and fat might make a fast cartridge, but how would they confuse that with well-proportioned? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Chunky women, like mopeds are fun to ride....you just don't want to let any of your friends so you on one <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Now back to the subject of good looking cartridges The .280 rem AI gets my vote. All performance and no belt.

Never thought about cartridges from your angle before, but since my first look at your post, I've been gazing at several cartridges with your idea in mind. I'm sure that my choice won't surprise you -- my hot new .220. And yes, it's a factory cartridge, although what I'm looking at are handloads. (Not a bit surprised, are you? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)

300 H & H (with the 270 Win a close #2)

JimF

338 Win. Mag. with a 250 grain Nosler Partition resting on top.

got to agree with jimF on this one: 300 h&h. it just looks imperially slim - and effective. my second choice is the .303 british. third is 7x57. fourth is .270.

.17HMR, So petite and sleek in one package.

257 WBY <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

338 Lapua

I reckin' thet 300 WSM is 'bout the cutest round I've seed. Don't have one, ain't likely to ever need a new rifle. But I 'spect its a fine shooter too.

When I read the post, I thought 300 H&H. It's what a cartridge should look like.

6.5x55, to me it just looks like a round should with 140 grain pill. With 156 grain RN it just looks like pure business.

The 30/06 Springfield.

When I look at the 06 I see the cartridge that will do it all without question. It's the round that helped win the two world wars and most of all the round associated with the greatest country on earth. I heard another old club member just passed on. Joe J. was a marine in the South Pacific in WW11 where my uncle died fighting for the US Army. He said that they were issued armor piercing for the 06 as it would penetrate the bunkers better that the japs used.

On collecting. A friend just gave me a cartridge marked Peters .300 Magnum. It has a 220 gr hollow point bullet that's a copper alloy at the nose, a nickle looking belt on the bullet about a half inch long and then the remainder of the bullet is the copper alloy.