MoSt Fun Caliber to shoot? (Not for defense!)

[Old Iron Sights]

Plain and simple

What caliber do you enjoy shooting most?




-Old Iron Sights

 

[Frizzle Fry]

.38spl it's cheap and easy to reload, it's available for sale everywhere, there are a ton of unique projectiles and most firearms can handle a variety of "fun loads", plenty of rifles AND pistols are chambered in it, they tend to be fun guns (levers, SA wheel guns, DA wheel guns) and have enough pop and flame and zing to feel like a "real gun". Also a really fun and quiet when suppressed. Two rifles, two pistols, some home made "battleship" targets, or a deck of cards, or a bunch of Necco wafers glued to a piece of cardboard, and you can plink all day out of a single bucket with a friend.

I love 22s but they can be kind of unsatisfying of "fun" due to the low recoil, and nature of the ammo and design of some firearms leads to more frequent duds and malfunctions.

I don't mind 9mm for "fun" but I just don't find it as satisfying to shoot... I tend to shoot a lot more and hit a lot less, even when I leave the Uzi, MAC and Lusa at home.

 

[smokey-seven]

You missed the more popular sub gauges below 12.

I vote for 20 and 410.

 

[1776]

none of the one's listed, such as 454 Casall (even with a 45LC)
So the most popular cowboy caliber isn't even listed....wow

 

[Lank]

9mm in a 92f with standard capacity mags keeps me happy

 

[bottle-cap]

When I was a Newbie to this sport / lifestyle, nearly 50 years ago, I would have answered .22lr. Visiting family farm on North Dakota, and learning to shoot .22lr from bolt action rifle with my grandpa and dad is one of my fondest memories. Fast forward to today, I'd say I like 9mm the best, for both handgun and carbine shooting. The rest of the shooters in my family however, cant seem to like anything but the good old .22lr. That is ok with me - as long as they like to shoot, enjoy time on the range and oh yeah, its cheap!!

 

[BrianWilson]

3fitty7. All the boom without the bleeding fingernails.

 

[dingbat]

.50 bmg

 

[slap shot]

.50 bmg

Agree

 

[dingbat]

Duck hunting?

 

[slap shot]

Duck hunting?

Cosmonauts!

 

[one-eyed Jack]

.219 Zipper or .218 Bee. Any of you old enough to remember those? Jack.

 

[Al-Jim19]

I voted .45 because a steel 1911 is just an all around fun time, but there is something really nice about the .22. Rifles and especially pistols are wicked fun when you can rip through 10 shots with little recoil.

Something pretty high on my wish list is a .22 revolver.

 

[W.E.C]

Any in full auto.

 

[Lefty38-55]

7.62x39mm in the AR platform. Cheap to shoot especially with the $99 cases I bought many years ago. Add an adjustable gas block and incredible accuracy can also be realized.

Sooooooooo much more fun than the puny 5.56, haha! The “308 Short” I call it. ... too bad good, reliable magazines are the weak link in the -39mm AR platform. Thankfully I have good ones!

 

[sieveboy]

.30-‘06

 

[greencobra]

everything and anything

 

[BUMPA01603]

Without a doubt......

 

[StevieP]

I like shooting my rifles in .22lr, 5.56 & .308. Handguns in .22LR (conversion for 1911), 9mm, .38/.357, and .45acp.

For shear 'fun' I love shooting .38spl in single action mode with my S&W Model 66. The trigger is like butter. I shoot it more accurately than my semi-automatics, and it's just a joy to handle, un/reload, and fire a revolver. With semi-automatics, you load the magazine. With a revolver, you load the GUN, so you're handling it, spinning the cylinder, etc. It's a more organic experience than using a semi-automatic pistol, if that's an apt description. .38spl is mild, but satisfying enough. And of course running .357 magnum through it can satisfy that desire for recoil. I have yet to shoot .38spl+p through it.

 

[Picton]

How can anyone have a favorite?

It depends on the day. But unless I’ve got s big reloading session scheduled, I never think in terms of caliber. I think in terms of firearm/weapons system/“platform,” whatever your preferred term. On any given day, I feel like different things.

But they’re all “fun.” If they’re not, I don’t keep the gun.

 

[TomMontana]

If cost was not a consideration, then it would be centerfire rifle. 22lr would probably be more enjoyable if it wasn't such a pain to load mags.

 

[ScottS]

In a bizarre cycle of life, I find the most enjoyable round I shoot now has returned to the same one I enjoyed as a kid: .22LR.

I’ve got numerous pistols, SBRs, and rifles in .22, in damn near every configuration imaginable: ‘scoped, red-dot’d, iron-sighted, suppressed and unsuppressed, revolvers and autos...that there’s no way I can’t find something fun to shoot on any range for about $.04 a round.

 

[1776]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSK-fF57xhw

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Ad much as I love the .22lr and have many guns chambered for it, the most fun we have is with two ammo cans of .38 special loaded up with 158gr semi wadcutters. Three revolvers, two lever guns, and lots of steel out to 200 yards

 

[BigTimber]

Muzzleloaders.

 

[Drix]

I need more guns in my life that feel like my .30 carbine.

 

[1776]

In a bizarre cycle of life, I find the most enjoyable round I shoot now has returned to the same one I enjoyed as a kid: .22LR.

I’ve got numerous pistols, SBRs, and rifles in .22, in damn near every configuration imaginable: ‘scoped, red-dot’d, iron-sighted, suppressed and unsuppressed, revolvers and autos...that there’s no way I can’t find something fun to shoot on any range for about $.04 a round.

Try one of these

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rfJy4exPFE

 

[looser38]

.219 Zipper or .218 Bee. Any of you old enough to remember those? Jack.

I'm definitely old enough, and am familiar with them, but unfortunately I have never had the chance to shoot either one. Maybe some day.

 

[looser38]

Agree View attachment 259403

Most fun? I personally don't think that anything else short of full auto can compare. There is absolutely nothing else like that. The senses are on overload after pulling the trigger on a 50. Pure shits and giggles to the max! However, YMMV .

 

[Radtekk]

On any given day, I feel like different things.

But they’re all “fun.” If they’re not, I don’t keep the gun.

Agreed. Sometimes 22lr out of an accurate rifle at 100 yards because I'm on the mood to practice fundamentals. Other times 340gr hardcast Buffalo Bore out of the SuperRedhawk 44mag.

Lol OK, most times BOTH!