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Title: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Septicdeath on October 21, 2019, 11:00:08 PM
Wondering what caliber is your favorite to shoot.
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Lt. Dan on October 21, 2019, 11:38:38 PM
I have both .177 & .22 my favorite is .22 cal. Why? Because my favorite rifles are in .22.
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Post by: Motorhead on October 21, 2019, 11:43:29 PM
.20 cal being wickedly accurate and capable with current pellets of producing 35/40 ft lbs which for a "Pellet gun" is really in the sweet spot.
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: SwampHunter on October 21, 2019, 11:50:19 PM
Depends on what I'm doing ! Don't really care for .177 'cause I drop them too much lol. Usually .22 covers plinking and hunting. Recently got a .25 though so will be hunting with it, very little plinking as I have to hand pump lol.
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Post by: BillK on October 21, 2019, 11:56:47 PM
One hole accuracy .177.  Dime(.10) hole size accuracy,  .22.   
Favorite is .177 @ 10M.
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Wayne52 on October 22, 2019, 12:05:15 AM
I shoot mostly .22 myself but I do have plenty of .177 & .25's that I like shooting as well.  I recently had to purchase some .177 JSB wad cutters for my .177's however for the .22's and .25's I cast my own.
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Post by: Dairyboy on October 22, 2019, 12:47:55 AM
.22 hands down for me
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: rsterne on October 22, 2019, 01:34:15 AM
I shoot .22 cal pellets the most, because I don't need more power for most of my shooting.... However, my favourite caliber is .257 shooting slugs....

Bob
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Earl on October 22, 2019, 02:07:12 AM
I shoot targets only, so I like .177.
My fingers still work good enough to load them.
When my fingers get too stiff, I will go to .22.
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: MJP on October 28, 2019, 04:48:45 PM
Mostly I have shot with the .223 or 20mm this season. Last season it was .457 and .357
I still probably like the .357 best.

Marko
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Tonykarter on October 28, 2019, 06:24:02 PM
.20 like Scott said, for 50 yards and in.  Over 50, then it would be the .22.
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Post by: PCPhack on October 28, 2019, 07:14:59 PM
Whichever one is in my hand.  ;D

Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Insanity on October 28, 2019, 09:22:29 PM
For me .22 I have 4 .22 2 .177 and 1 .25. I have 2 molds for .22 so that really makes it easy to like and those molds drop very consistent to JSB in the same grain. I also have a .25 wadcutter mold but I wont detune anytime soon for them as its hunting season. So for me its .22 its the jack of all trades but master of none in my book.
Title: Re: What is your preference in caliber?
Post by: Rabbit\Squirrel Killer on October 29, 2019, 02:40:04 AM
My gut said .22, then I went over my lists of rifles and pistols and found out if I go by what I own it is 50-50. I started out with .20 or .22 only then a few .177 and 3 -.25's. Somewhere along the line I was attracted to replicas which made things even up between .177 and .22 though.