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I'd rather be "gay" than "boring" - and own the "gay" calibre....
Gus

Love the sig line...

Sorry, man! One's going in for a Benchmark .264 tube fairly soon, another is getting a .338 tube further down the road, one's a family heirloom 725 Remington, and the last is a Ti (and probably will end up with a .284 barrel).

The 'donor' story is just a cover-up for a closet .270 freak.....

boring = tried, true and proven......nope never work LOL

Thems fightin' words, old man... there's a fresh steaming one waiting for you to smoke...

You should PM him. I'm sure he's been on pins and needles waiting for your endorsement.

I've owned 3 or 4 .270's for some reason or other but have never shot one and don't really have a desire to?

I was bored to tears with my tried and true cooper 270. Then I added turrets and hand rolled 140 gr VLD's and started walking that old dog out to 800.

ANY and ALL American metric cartridges bore me to tears...
(I mean, seriously - 6mm Rem, 7mm and 8mm Rem. Mags = BORING!!)

European metric cartridges on the other hand...
(6x62 Freres, 7x64 Brenneke, 8x68S = uber-COOL, right?)

308, 30-06, 300 win...definitely not a 30 cal fan :-)

There are no boring cartridges, but lots of boring people.

308 win. I bought them (3 to date) with high hopes but they kind of let me down. So its back to the good ol 30-06. You ask why? Because they arn't any more "inherently accurate" than the ol 06, they arn't as fast like some seem to think and they kick almost as much...... Pretty [bleep] boring to say the least...

308 based cartridges are a bore IMHO. 257 Roberts, 7X57, 270 Winchester, 30/06, 300 H&H, 8X57, 35 Whelen, 375 Ruger and 375 H&H are where its at. With the exception of the Ruger, the bases have been covered for a long time. The rest is just fluff.

Let me help:

Dogger I never had an 8mm myself....but my old elk hunting pal from Amarillo has a pair of 8mm Rem Mags that he has hunted with here and in Africa....seen it work on elk down in the southwest with him.He uses the 200 Partition mostly at about 3000+ fps...also some weight of TBBC...I have told him (and he agrees)it's just like a 300 Weatherby...

To boring cartridges: Though I've never owned one, it'd have to be the 7mm-08.... its out ran by the. 284 Winchester another short action. The 7x57 outclasses it with the same bullet selection and the. 270 Winchester is both faster and more classy.

BobinNH, that comparison - the 8RM is just like a 300Wby - is probably as much reason the 8RM doesn't sell as any other reason.
Why pay the recoil tariff in the 8RM when you can pay it in the Weatherby and have better long range ballistics with higher BC 30 cal bullets?? And why pay the tariff in either of those rifles if not for the benefits they provide at longer ranges?? But you can have the long range performance and pay an even smaller tariff if you run the 175 in the Mashburn!!!

Dang, there I am back to the Mashburn.

being a handloader, I don't find any rifle cartridge boring.. especially as I like to see what it will do, both loaded down and loaded up...

I can find certain rifles boring.... like a Rem 770 or a Savage Edge...or the newer Tikkas...

but not a cartridge.... some I don't get fired up to work with, like the WSMs.. or Rem Short Ultra Mag...those struck me as dopey and trying to reinvent the wheel...same with the WSSM...

of course for a while, around people who were in love with them, I was shooting a "Winchester 6mm Medium Short Magnum"...

of which they wanted all sorts of info on it, especially since they never heard of it...I'd describe it to them, case capacity, MV potential etc.... and they'd say, that sounds pretty cool...

then I'd show them the case, a 243....

I always considered the 308 to be a seriously boring round until we fell heir to a BSA Majestic. A delightful little rifle and a joy to carry. It made the 308 interesting.

I've no love for the 7mm RM and have never found a rifle that sparks my interest in the round. Came close at the last gun show when I found a Mauser 3000 left handed in 7mm RM. Had it been another chambering I would have it in my safe.

I find it difficult to class the 30-06 as boring considering it's long and illustrious history. The fact that it spawned such truly interesting rounds such as the 35, 38 and 400 Whelen only adds to it's interest and charm.

I have always found the 243 to be, well, ho hum. That is till I ran onto a Ruger 1A with spectacular wood. Then the 243 didn't seem quite so dull. I fortunately didn't have the money for it so the interest faded and I don't have a beautiful 1A handicapped by a dreary chambering. Whew, dodged that one.

Most magnums are boring unless magnum is preceded by H&H, Norma or 458 Winchester. I might even concede to allow 264 Winchester, 224 Weatherby and 240 Weatherby into that elite group but would be hard pressed to add any other magnums to that circle.

Any chambering that ends in x57, Nitro Express, Westley Richards or Jeffery is interesting. Anything that ends in WSM or WSSM is not.

Any pre-WWII custom rifle is automatically elevated to interesting regardless of the chambering.

Mart