Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Can a person ruin a cartridge for you?

Just finished a Field and Stream Richard Mann article where he stated he will never use a 30-06 because of an obnoxious uncle who incessantly proclaimed the 06 to be the end all, be all. I can't think of a cartridge that I let another person ruin for me. How 'bout y'all?

I think the 6.5 Creedmore falls into that category for many here.

I already had a .260 Remington when the CM came out, or I probably would have built one.

.270 and 6.5 creed Gay and gayer...


7mm Rem mag.Never heard anything but it producing seemingly magical results, and have never EVER seen anyone shoot one proficiently. They bought it cause Uncle Charlie said its a lightning bolt, and are obviously afraid of the recoil.They shoulda bought the .270 instead.

I’ve never been prouder to say I’ve never fooled with a 7mag.

30-06 for same reason as above. Had a friend who's dad would proclaim "my 30-06 will do anything your rifle will and more" repeatedly while chain-chugging beer. Couldn't stand that A-rod and never considered a 30-06 because of him. I grew to understand there are better cartridges than 30-06 as well.

Anything chambered in an AR....

My dad was that way. He'd go on and on about the superiority of the 30-06 to other cartridges. Even though he never used other cartridges. One time he shot a buck in the neck at 90 yards. He told me he would have only trusted the 30-06 on that shot. I just looked at him funny. He used to tell 270 users that they used a groundhog cartridge and 243 users that theirs was nothing more than a bee sting to a deer. Still never ruined the 30-06 for me and I use one every year

Could not agree more......only not a person but dozen's have told me the 6.5Gaymoor is the be all end all.....

I will NEVER own one.......EVER, I will find my way without one, out of the crowd

No one has ever turned me off a cartridge I really wanted. There are many different cartridges I have never owned but if someone gave me one of those, I would own it with pride as long as the gun wasn't a piece of junk.

Thank you!

I think it was here on the fire, a few years before I joined up, some guy said something like this, maybe it was his sig line, " not everybody who has a 7 Mag is an azwhole, but every azwhole has one" A f...king classic.

They are all good when used for their intended purpose. I never wanted a 280, but got a good deal on a Kimber BGR. I have it sighted in with 120 Barnes, excited about using it this year on deer and pigs, maybe an Aoudad.

I like 7 mags and 30-06’s have a few of each. I have a couple of Creeds too. They are damn fun to shoot

For the longest time.I hated the 6mm Rem and the 7mm Remington all because a kid at school had the six and his dad had a seven. Kid was a but head and all he did around deer season was brag how the two cartridges were better than all others. I outgrew the notion

I know a guy who won't eat pork and beans to this day because his older brother who was a thorn in his side loved it.

Same psychology here it appears.

I can't quote the exact time period, but the gun writers pretty well turned me off of anything that came out during the new cartridge of the month frenzy...every possible bore diameter of short mag was a must have..TC .30, .300 RCM, .300SAUM, .30 RAR, .308 Marlin Express, various Nosler offerings, endless variations of silly little offerings for the AR platform...all that appearing after we were already tiring of endless variations of Remington cooking up every possible bore diameter on the .308 case. And yes, I have a 6.5 Creed...not because I wanted it...because a customer didn't want it after it was finished...and I can't give it away at cost just to break even. I am DONE with
"new and improved".

Yeah, good thing folks on the 'Fire base their decisions on logic and reason and not emotions.

Can't say I don't agree with you.
Then my eldest bought a DPMS "Panther". Laid around in the case under the bed for a couple of years.
We had a coyote problem. Out of desperation, I asked the Kid if I could drag it out. "Sure, pop! Have fun!"
I scoped it and had a blast with it...and blasted several 'yotes!
Then the youngest sent me a stripped lower and a box full of parts.
"I got a promotion dad, and I won't have time to finish this!"
"Uhhh, I don't know how to put an AR together!" I whined!
"YouTube, dad! YouTube!" came the reply.
Since then, I've built about 15! Love 'em!
Right now, my primary rifle is a DIY AR in 6.8mm Rem SPC!
It's deadly on pigs and deer!

+1

Not ruined by a person but I got tired of reading 270 and 30-06 articles growing up that it soured my interest in them. They're great rounds and I'm not going to twist myself into knots trying to talk bad about them, they just aren't on my list of stuff to buy. Although I do own a 30-06 handed down by my grandfather that'll shoot every once in a while.

I knew several guys in the 90’s toting 7mm Rem. Mags shooting factory loaded 140 ballistic tips.

They all seemed to lose deer, which made me dislike the round not only for its recoil, but the fact it seemed to blow up bullets on shoulders at close range, or maybe they just couldn’t shoot. Either way, it seemed that any round that kicked that damn hard oughta kill better.

Another friend (who may have just been a better shot) bought one just before deer season. All Wally World had left was a box of Fed Premium 160 Partitions. He didn’t want anyone to know what load he was hunting with for fear of being made fun of for “deer hunting with elk bullets”.

He proceeded to slay deer as though it was Thor’s hammer.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere, I’m just not sure which one…….