What caliber are you shooting?

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I'm shooting a 6.5 Creedmoor. Trued Remington action with a Kreiger 1-8 twist barrel.

[Tim K]

.308. Will switch to something more interesting if this barrel ever wears out, which it seems to have no inclination to do.

[Hoser]

22BR, 243, 308 and 338 Lapua.

[Colorado Osprey]

300 Win Mag... Remmy Sendero
243 .. Built Savage
6.5x284 ... Built Savage

The Win Mag is close to 1000 rounds. Might have to get another barrel soon, but the accuracy hasn't decreased yet. Still hitting 1' steel gongs at 1200 meters.

[Troublco]

6.5 Grendel, .308, and .300 Win Mag.

ETA - forgot my .264 WM!

[ronaldrwl]

300 REM Ultra Mag

[spittoon]

165 300 rum wow

[Zak Smith]

All the big magnums look great on paper - to a certain type of person - but they are not used to win matches very often. Here's the data from the 2010 Steel Safari

http://demigodllc.com/articles/steel-safari-2010/?p=3

The 6.5mm caliber totally dominated with 39% of all rifles; 6mm was next with 28%, then .30 (22%), and then 7 mm (11%). Specific cartridges: .260 Remington (25%), .308 Winchester (17%), 6.5x47 Lapua (11%), 6% for each of 6XC, 7m WSM, 7mm RSAUM, .260AI, and then 3% each for .300 WM, 6mm-250, .30-06, 6.5-284, 6 Dasher, .243 Winchester, and 6CM/243

That's a pretty strong endorsement for the mid-size 6.5's. RayDog did win the 2009 match shooting his 7 WSM. We have had matches that allowed any cartridge less than .50 BMG-- one guy shot a .338LM and everyone else shot the normal cartridges such as those above.

I most often compete with my AW in .260Rem, second after that is split between my .308 (if I have cheap ammo to burn) or my AWSM in 7mm RM, which I will be shooting this weekend at the SRM.

-z

[banks74]

I was shooting 7wsm and now 7rm. .284 pills rock! I also shoot a ton of .308.

[omega1]

.308, .260, 6 BR, 6.5 Grendel and .338 Edge. Yeah I know, I'm a sick sick man. Can't stick with one caliber.