Whats your favorite caliber?

[RattlesnakeJahon]

.357 magnum for me. Even though I only have experience with it in my Ruger SP101 I love the recoil of full house loads and I'm really quite accurate with it! Not too expensive either if you find the right brands like Fiocchi. Not to mention that unbeatable stopping power!

[Evi|grin]

Hunting 308 in a carbine and a close second for reloading.

For fun 22lr or 22mag in anything

Favorite for reloading 357MAX, similar energy to a 44mag but less recoil and you can still shoot 38/357 in the same chamber. Sadly its about dead.

All time favorite 50cal blackpowder with a variety of bullets and sabots. Very few calibers can shoot 180-400gr bullets with acceptable accuracy in a good rifle.

[kustom]

I still like the good ol 9x19.  Cheap, contollable, and in most pistols and carbines, thw 115gr can go absurdly fast.
That and hollow points for the 9 have really made the round come into its own.

[bloodnguts]

Gotta be the .308. Compared to other .30 caliber full power loads its relatively light of recoil ( relatively) and offers a lotta power. At three hundred yards itll hit ya with more energy than most auto hand guns at point blank range. Its accuracy is superb as any fan of sniping or old school target shooting knows. It responds well to reloading and is a military surplus caliber.

[Krippp]

6.5X55 Swedish for rifles and .45 ACP for handguns

[nclpta]

9mm

[Walt4595]

.308 win for Rifles. (30-06 a close second.) Could find 30-06 during the entire ammo shortage.

Tied between 45ACP and 40 S&W for pistols. (Dang. I should have never bought the JHP.)  

Walt

[sheetmetalman]

 45ACP

[futuremodal]

Being a relative newbie to firearms, I'm only familiar with 9mm, 22lr, 223/5.56, 38sp, 357, and .410.  I'd like to try out the 6.8SPC, 7.62x39, and the .50 Beowulf when and if funds allow, until then I'd have to agree with the others that 9mm offers the right combination of just enough punch yet relative affordability.

Update:  I have more and more found myself opting for the .410 AR when plinking opportunities arise.  Since the rifled slugs are rather expensive at $1 per, I usually use the 000 buckshot or the #4 shot for blowing up frozen milk jugs and those big cat litter plastic jugs filled with water.  There's just something cathartic about watching a frozen milk jug disintigrate into oblivion with the buckshot, something that can't be replicated with the 9mm hp's, nor even the 223 hp's, and even 22lr Stinger hp's don't do all that much. 

Still waiting to obtain some .50 Beowulf hp's, should be interesting to see what that round does to milk jugs!

[Batjac]

.454  Casull.  Expensive, and I can't shoot more than 12 rounds without my hand killing me.  But, every time I pull the trigger, another hair grows on my nards....  Besides, when I shoot it, the range goes quiet and everyone looks over to my lane.

[dannys_salvage]

Well that is a trick question. favorite caliber you can afford, fun, pistol, rifle etc...... I like the .50 cal tracers there fun, .22 super cheap and easy to find, 9mm i can carry it in my side arm and in my 995 carbine, 5.7x28 super accurate not much knock down good penitration though, .308 long distance shots so you see what i say its really a trick question lol

But all in all most enexpensive for the punch i would say 9mm again i can carry it in my side arm and in my 995 carbine

[ne995]

30-06 it's been around over a hundred years and will still be used a hundred from now

[sean187]

Ofcourse for me it's the 40 cal.got the distance and the knockdown.

[Nemo]

12ga.  Properly loaded sufficient enough for any creature on the North American Continent.  Whether 2 legs, 4 legs or wings.

Nemo

[.45acp]

Take a look at my screen name and guess.

I really am starting to enjoy .22 lr as I can shoot it to my hearts content,