Anyone Give up a Caliber?

[Ryououki]

I gave up on .22lr. It just wasn't any fun. I still have one 22 pistol left for my wife and son to use. I just don't bother with it.

I currently use 9mm, .45, and .50ae. The only one I really enjoy shooting anymore is the .50. The 9mm and .45 are for home security, and will be for carry if I get approved for CCW.

[CK_32]

Tiny pee pee huh ^^^

[JBaus]

I just started recently and decided to stick with (3) calibers *see below*

.22lr
12ga
7.62x39

I wanted to do 9mm, .45, & .223 and had plans for each caliber, but wanted to see what I can do with these calibers first before moving onto others since I'm a newbie and didn't want to go overboard initially.

[bill_k_lopez]

giving up .308 and 30-30. I'm moving down to .223, still keeping my 44mag levers and my 45-70 which I reload.

Have been thinking about giving up .45 for 9mm - I have 5 1911s, just getting too expensive to keep buying, and don't want to spend more time behind the press then at the range.

[The War Wagon]

I gave up 9mm and .40 in the mid-'90's, to stick with 10mm and .45.

Finally gave up 10mm in 2003. I'm all 1911's all the time now, in .45.

[Paper Boy]

I have a .38 special I would give up if someone had a good trade, but I am not trying to get rid of it.

Other than that nope

[Loubot10]

Gave up on .40 and fully committed to .45

Reason- if you can only have 10 rounds, a single stack 1911 rules that world.

[jbe90]

Gave up on .40 cal.
Sticking to 9mm and .45 acp for now.
And of course .22 for plinking.

[meaty-btz]

Yup, .45 ACP. It really is not the be all-end-all the arguments about it might lead.

I prefer faster, more energetic bullets with LONG profiles where I can alter the performance by changing bullet characteristics.

If you have the penetration and energy you can always go for more expansion or even to a varmint/fragmenting or even better a tumbling round (long profile at high velocity). But you can't make a .45 with its large short profile into a tumbling bullet nor give it the penetration of a 357SIG, no matter it's muzzle energy and slow heavy bullet. If you start fast, you can always load bigger and slower.

Just my perspective. I think ballistically I think differently now. I want to edge my pistol performance towards carbine performance and for that I need long thin bullet profiles for tumbling.

Same reason the 5.7 is effective when it tumbles it creates a much larger and fatal wound channel than any short. Which is how the 5.7 works, long tumbling profile. Seen it in gel and believe me its no ice-pick wound channel. We civilians may not be able to get the tumbling 5.7, but there are other pistol cals out there that can mount a rifle/carbine bullet and achieve the same dynamic results offering: Varmint, Hollow Point, Soft Point Spitzer and Carbine, FMJ RN, FMJ Carbine (longer bullet, still a round nose), and of course steel core penetrators.

[SGGear]

I also gave up on the 40.. just too many additional dies and reloading equipment that I dont need.

Pistol - 9mm, .45 acp, 38 and 357
Rifle - 223, 308

[DisturbedAle]

I'm just like you OP. As a newer shooter, 22lr is great for desert. 9mm is very common and if shtf, that and my 22lr are go to guns.

.45ACP for 1911 fun, and 12ga for skeet.

[m03]

Gave up 7.62x39, for now, in order to focus on 5.56x45.

[hcbr]

357 mag i gave up on and im going to give up on 357 sig as well. i have too many calibers to juggle,

[Diabolus]

.45 and .40, all 9mm now.

Need to unload some firearms soon.

[tbc]

Have never owned a 0.40-cal pistol. Didn't care for it.

Recently gave up 0.45 cal cause I didn't shoot much. Really like this caliber but it's just too expensive to keep up.

9mm and .22lr are good enough for me in survival and SD situations.