Cartridges you just hate

[Creigh]

man oh man, the hate for .243 is jarring. I don't run mine hot (2700fps)'ish and can grab it out the safe now and shoot 0.300 moa with it. It is fussy and took me a while to get right, about 100 rounds and 4 charge weight changes. But I'll stick to 100-grain interlock. Keeping everything very plain and standard. It's used for small to medium game, and most important, practice. Much cheaper to run and can hunt.

My .375 H&H has the same scope as the .243 and does most of the killing, sorry, harvesting, and I hardly take it to the range. Big saving on my part. Did a final check at the range for this year's hunt, shooting 1 inch groups @ 200 meters. What more could you want.

All you chaps that don't like the belted case realise the 300 PRC isn't belted right? Your answer is right there. I have one and I can't wait to get familiar with it like I am with the others. Still fairly new to me.

I have noticed something, we seem to be looking for a cartridge around 7mm that does what 30 cals do. If you compare the number of variations between .243 and .300 with the number of variations between .300 and .400+ it's clear we want small size big bang.
Personally, I've been looking for something to fill the gap between my .243 and .375. The 300 prc was an attempt to do that but I've probably biased too much towards the .375. It would've been a .270 but after reading some of the comments, I'm having doubts. Will probably be a 7mm-08 or 7mm prc. Was at my local shop this morning, guy said he brought in five 7mm prc last week and they're all sold. South Africans aren't going to buy the 7 BC.

 

[Badjer]

I have read through every post and love the different reasons given for each persons cartridge "hate"
After 22 days I decided to throw in my .02
First let me say I have spent some time with the 6.5 manbun. It is good for what it was designed for, a long range paper puncher. Like what has been said earlier. Just because you can hunt with it doesn't mean you should.
Much of the creedmoor hate is due to the fact it's pushed as a "do it all" cartridge.
This is why .308 is next to the 6.5 cm on this list for me.
Last 2 are more broad: anything Weatherby. overpriced marginally better ballistic status symbols
and I will stand on the hill beside BourbonTrail:

Please don’t ban me from the forum, but I irrationally hate metric cartridges.

If its name is ## x ##, it drives me nuts. It’s not a fkn bolt, it’s a cartridge, give it a name it deserves.

I would never own a 7x57, but a 275 Rigby is fine by me.

commence the rotten vegetable throwing...