How many is too many?

[rdog]

At the present time i have
22 rimfire x2
22 mag
17 hmr
222 rem
223 rem
22 ppc
22 hornet
260 rem
6.5 Grendel
6.5x55 x2
243 win
240 weatherby
7x57
8x57
270 win
270wsm
6.5 creed moor
308 win x2
280 rem
30/06 x2
350 rem mag
9.3x62 in build
318 WR in build
12 gauge
20 gauge
My wife thinks i need help?

 

[rdog]

I forgot 2 7.62x39 & 303 British, you worry about them going rusty in the humid wet weather of QLD in summer &
storing reloading dies, powder , primers . projectiles ect to feed them all, with time hunting, & at the range & cleaning them i struggle to have time to mow the lawns

 

[358 Norma]

22 LR #2
5.56 #5
257 Roberts
270 wby
7.62x39
7mm-08
7mm wby
30-06 #5
300 wby
8mm Mauser
32 special
35 Remington #2
358 Norma #2
9mm
375 H&H
416 Remington mag
470 Nitro
No such thing as to many!

 

[BnC 04]

Too many? No such thing.
I'd call anthing under 30 a good start.

 

[Tanks]

At the present time i have
22 rimfire x2
22 mag
17 hmr
222 rem
223 rem
22 ppc
22 hornet
260 rem
6.5 Grendel
6.5x55 x2
243 win
240 weatherby
7x57
8x57
270 win
270wsm
6.5 creed moor
308 win x2
280 rem
30/06 x2
350 rem mag
9.3x62 in build
318 WR in build
12 gauge
20 gauge
My wife thinks i need help?

I see a gap in your collection. You have no big bores.

 

[Newboomer]

What? No 375HH? Everyone needs a 375. You gotta have the King of Rifles to complete your collection.

 

[rdog]

What? No 375HH? Everyone needs a 375. You gotta have the King of Rifles to complete your collection.

Had 458. 375. & 416 Taylor & 340 Weatherby , 358 Norma, got rid of them after having both my shoulders repaired

 

[Jaegger]

Too many? No such thing.
I'd call anthing under 30 a good start.

Agreed! Keep doing what you enjoy until your run out of Room & $$$ …

 

[Luederitz]

Rimfire:
22 WMR

Rimmed:
5,6x57 R
5,6x61 R SE v.H.
7x65 R
7x75 R SE v.H. (3x)

Rimless:
5,6x61 SE v.H. (1 & 1 in build)
7x66 SE v.H. (3x)
33 Nosler
9,3x64 (3x)
9,5x66 SE v.H.
416 Ruger

Over/Under:
16/70

Still less than 20 weapons...

 

[R.M.C.]

Can't have too many. That's why they make so many different ones, and god gave us the right to wildcat stuff we can't find lol

 

[xausa]

Not counting rimfires, my aggregate of firearms includes rifles in the followinhg calibers:

.22 Hornet

.219 Donaldson Wasp

R-2 Lovell

.222 Remington

.223 Remington

.220 Swift

.22 Savage High Power

6mm BR

6X52R Bretschneider

.243 Winchester

.250-3000 Savage

.257 Roberts

.25-06 Remington

6.5X54

6.5X.308

6.5 Creedmoor

6.5X64

6.5X68

.270 Winchester

7X57

7X64

7X65R

7X75 SE vom Hofe

.280 Remington

.30 carbine

.30 Remington

.300 Savage

.308 Winchester

.30-’06 Springfield

.30 Newton

.300 H&H

.300 Weatherby Magnum

.32 Remington

8X57JS Mauser

8X64

8X68

.318 WR

.338 Winchester Magnum

9X57

.35 Remington

.358 Winchester

.35 Whelen

.35 BI Whelen

.350 No.2 Rigby

.350 Rigby Magnum

.358 Norma Magnum

.35 Newton

.35 Griffin & Howe

9.3X57

9.3X62

9.3X68

9.3X72R

9.3X74R

9.5X57 MS

.375 H&H Magnum

.400 Whelen

.450/.400 Magnum

.404 Jeffery

10.75X68

.416 Rigby

.425 WR

.45-70

.458 Winchester Magnum

.45 Watts Magnum

.500 Nitro Express 3”

.500 Jeffery

.505 SRE

.505 Gibbs

Of these, I have taken deer with 34 of the listed calibers, as of last week.

 

[Rare Breed]

I tried to do some searching and didn’t see anything on the topic. I was wondering what other people’s thoughts on different calibers in a collection. I’m a wildcat nut and I’m always looking for new calibers. So in your idea how many different calibers is too many in a collection. As of right now just in rifles I have a lot. I have .223, .243, .270, 6.8 spc .308, 30-30, 7.62x54r, 30-06, 300 win mag, 338 win mag, 338 spectre, 358 winchester, 30 hrt, 45-70, 357 mag, 10mm, 460 rowland, 9mm, 357 sig, 45 acp, .22, 50 Beowulf, 416 rigby, 375 h&h and more I’m sure I’m forgetting. And yes, all the pistol caliber are rifles I have. I can’t stop going after different and interesting calibers.

The classic answer when asked your question “ how many guns do you have?” Correct answer “ not enough”

 

[rdog]

Not counting rimfires, my aggregate of firearms includes rifles in the followinhg calibers:

.22 Hornet

.219 Donaldson Wasp

R-2 Lovell

.222 Remington

.223 Remington

.220 Swift

.22 Savage High Power

6mm BR

6X52R Bretschneider

.243 Winchester

.250-3000 Savage

.257 Roberts

.25-06 Remington

6.5X54

6.5X.308

6.5 Creedmoor

6.5X64

6.5X68

.270 Winchester

7X57

7X64

7X65R

7X75 SE vom Hofe

.280 Remington

.30 carbine

.30 Remington

.300 Savage

.308 Winchester

.30-’06 Springfield

.30 Newton

.300 H&H

.300 Weatherby Magnum

.32 Remington

8X57JS Mauser

8X64

8X68

.318 WR

.338 Winchester Magnum

9X57

.35 Remington

.358 Winchester

.35 Whelen

.35 BI Whelen

.350 No.2 Rigby

.350 Rigby Magnum

.358 Norma Magnum

.35 Newton

.35 Griffin & Howe

9.3X57

9.3X62

9.3X68

9.3X72R

9.3X74R

9.5X57 MS

.375 H&H Magnum

.400 Whelen

.450/.400 Magnum

.404 Jeffery

10.75X68

.416 Rigby

.425 WR

.45-70

.458 Winchester Magnum

.45 Watts Magnum

.500 Nitro Express 3”

.500 Jeffery

.505 SRE

.505 Gibbs

Of these, I have taken deer with 34 of the listed calibers, as of last week.

Gee i thought i had a problem i an only an amateur.

 

[Bonk]

This thread has convinced me I'm not as bad as I thought I was. I only have eight hunting calibers at the moment because over the last couple of years I've made a conscious effort to divest myself of calibers with too much similarity with the ones listed below. I prefer older well proven calibers that have withstood the test of time around the world and not just American favorites. I'm not even remotely interested in any calibers containing the identifiers RCM, RUM, WSM, WSSM, PRC, AI, Creedmore or Weatherby.

Here's my current inventory. I've tried to spread them out with as little redundancy as possible but unfortunately emotion is in play. I stumbled into the 7x64 but it's such a cool rifle I had to have it. I have no logical reason to have 30-06 and 300H&H but there's no way I'm getting rid of either one. I'd rather sell you one of my grandkids (Logan is pretty cool and he doesn't eat much). Same with the 9.3 caliber rifles. One is a bolt and the other is a double but I'm keeping both even though 375H&H takes care of that niche.

What remains can be roughly broken down into 4 groups: Quarter bore, 7mm, .30 Cal and .366/.375. I'm working on adding a 404J to fill the .40 cal category. There's another thread discussing how to fill the gap between 30 cal and 375. Personally I don't see much of a void there but if I did I'd probably fill it with an 8x57 which I'd kind of like to have anyway. YMMV.

25-06
-------
7mm-08
7x64
-------
30-06
300H&H
-------
9.3x62
9.3x74R
375H&H

 

[Forrest Halley]

Well I don't rightly know exactly. That's the shame of it. Folks ask and I find myself lost in the count. There is a high side to this argument though. When one goes to the safe and forgets that you have something it is quite amusing to find the perfect gun waiting for you. Although as I get older, I find that guns that were new to men who no longer speak around the campfire are the best. The new ones are tools lacking nostalgia and sentiment and that causes me great indifference toward them. I think that once a gun has been blooded on game, it becomes a part of an elite circle within the safe.

 

[spike.t]

Not counting rimfires, my aggregate of firearms includes rifles in the followinhg calibers:

.22 Hornet

.219 Donaldson Wasp

R-2 Lovell

.222 Remington

.223 Remington

.220 Swift

.22 Savage High Power

6mm BR

6X52R Bretschneider

.243 Winchester

.250-3000 Savage

.257 Roberts

.25-06 Remington

6.5X54

6.5X.308

6.5 Creedmoor

6.5X64

6.5X68

.270 Winchester

7X57

7X64

7X65R

7X75 SE vom Hofe

.280 Remington

.30 carbine

.30 Remington

.300 Savage

.308 Winchester

.30-’06 Springfield

.30 Newton

.300 H&H

.300 Weatherby Magnum

.32 Remington

8X57JS Mauser

8X64

8X68

.318 WR

.338 Winchester Magnum

9X57

.35 Remington

.358 Winchester

.35 Whelen

.35 BI Whelen

.350 No.2 Rigby

.350 Rigby Magnum

.358 Norma Magnum

.35 Newton

.35 Griffin & Howe

9.3X57

9.3X62

9.3X68

9.3X72R

9.3X74R

9.5X57 MS

.375 H&H Magnum

.400 Whelen

.450/.400 Magnum

.404 Jeffery

10.75X68

.416 Rigby

.425 WR

.45-70

.458 Winchester Magnum

.45 Watts Magnum

.500 Nitro Express 3”

.500 Jeffery

.505 SRE

.505 Gibbs

Of these, I have taken deer with 34 of the listed calibers, as of last week.

Fk......

 

[VertigoBE]

Not counting rimfires, my aggregate of firearms includes rifles in the followinhg calibers:

.22 Hornet

.219 Donaldson Wasp

R-2 Lovell

.222 Remington

.223 Remington

.220 Swift

.22 Savage High Power

6mm BR

6X52R Bretschneider

.243 Winchester

.250-3000 Savage

.257 Roberts

.25-06 Remington

6.5X54

6.5X.308

6.5 Creedmoor

6.5X64

6.5X68

.270 Winchester

7X57

7X64

7X65R

7X75 SE vom Hofe

.280 Remington

.30 carbine

.30 Remington

.300 Savage

.308 Winchester

.30-’06 Springfield

.30 Newton

.300 H&H

.300 Weatherby Magnum

.32 Remington

8X57JS Mauser

8X64

8X68

.318 WR

.338 Winchester Magnum

9X57

.35 Remington

.358 Winchester

.35 Whelen

.35 BI Whelen

.350 No.2 Rigby

.350 Rigby Magnum

.358 Norma Magnum

.35 Newton

.35 Griffin & Howe

9.3X57

9.3X62

9.3X68

9.3X72R

9.3X74R

9.5X57 MS

.375 H&H Magnum

.400 Whelen

.450/.400 Magnum

.404 Jeffery

10.75X68

.416 Rigby

.425 WR

.45-70

.458 Winchester Magnum

.45 Watts Magnum

.500 Nitro Express 3”

.500 Jeffery

.505 SRE

.505 Gibbs

Of these, I have taken deer with 34 of the listed calibers, as of last week.

You forgot to mention your profession is that of museum supervisor?

But kidding aside, that is one impressive listing of calibres!

One thing I noticed: a “Bi-Whelen”? Didn’t know the Whelen existed in a bisexual flavour!

 

[VertigoBE]

.22LR
9mm
.38SPL/.357Mag
7x64
7x65r
.308Win
.300WinMag
.375H&H
12ga

Seems I’m still an amateur!

 

[ChrisG]

.25 FX Impact airgun
.223
6.5x55
.358 win
.375 Ruger
.458 Win mag.

Handguns:
I've pared down from 5 to:
.45 ACP/Super
.38 Spec.
9mm

 

[Neil Molendyk]

XAUSA: If you're not the winner, you're definitely a contender.