After reading and posting on the forum for five months I started to think in terms of handgun calibers, and which one do I have the most of. After an informal count I came up with the .38 Special. There was a time when that count would have had different results. I think it probably used to be the .45 ACP, but today the .45 ACP came in second. In third came the venerable .357 magnum. There is a smattering of calibers from .22 and 5.7mm, up to .44 magnums and 50AE, with just about everything in between. Oh, there are many calibers I don't own, and several that I would like to have but don't. It's just the way it turned out.

Which caliber do you own the most of???

God bless our men and women in uniform.

I don't have two of any caliber. I own one of every caliber. I don't have a 9mm, but I am looking for a Luger.

.38/.357

7 - Six revolvers and one semi-auto

I've got 5,000+ .38 Special cases.

If you include rimfires then .22LR wins easily. Centerfire is .357 Mag. 3 revolvers and one carbine.

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38 Special, beating out 22 LR by a nose.

38 Special-4 of them all S&W.

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.22 Long Rifle...... 13 and counting..

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Easily the .22 LR. Revolvers, pistols and rifles. I find them fun and inexpensive to shoot.

I've got six handguns, two of which are .40 caliber. The rest are all different calibers.

Hi-Power .40 Practical


Glock 27

Six .38 Specials; half 'n half J's and K's.

(Are these things breeding while I'm not looking??)

3 - 38 357
3 44 spec 44mag All S/W

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22LR by far! Can't get enough of them!

45 ACP by a long shot.

Half a dozen in 45acp.4colts,1 custom-built springer and 1kimber. The smiths are coming on strong.Picked up a nice 586-1 a few weeks ago, a 4 screw model 29 should be at my dealers tomorrow and a 4 screw k-38 should be here in a week.Headed to the miracle mile with my son tomorrow for a little fly fishing,life is lookin good.

I also have more 22LR than any thing else. They are just fun to shoot. Don

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For me it's .30 carbine. .22 Long Rifle would be a close second.

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Although I go through quite a bit of 22LR the caliber I use the most of is 12 gauge.... a lot of trap shooting.

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Mine would be .45acp (the 442 in the pics is the same one).







After that it's 12ga. I have a couple of them....only one pic, though:

38 special, far and away!

22lr, followed by 357mag

THAT is an armory!

.38 Special

That would be the .38 Special.

Three of them at the moment, a M & P, Model 10-5 and an Outdoorsman.

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Time to fess up. 14 .38 Spcl and 9 .45ACP. I know there are people on this forum that have hundreds of .38's.

45acp second 45lc

looks like five .45 Auto's and counting....

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Five 40's followed by three 10mms. Then one .22, one .38, one .357, one 9mm. Several years ago, I decided to try and minimize my SD calibers to only .40. You see how well that worked out.

I was going to say 22LR, but a quick check of the old inventory says that would have been wrong. For me, as far as S&W's, it's 38 spl. (by around 3-to-2) which came as a little bit of a surprise. I think that if I added my few Rugers, H&R's and 22LR rifles, those pesky rimfires may win out, but not by much. -S2

Same as the original poster but in another order: .45 ACP, .38 Special then .357 Magnum.

I don't shoot a lot of .38 Special any more, mostly a couple of Model 642's. I guess I have so many of them because S&W has made them in such a bewildering array of models, styles, sights, finishes and barrel lengths. I shoot more .45 ACP than anything else. It's both my work and pleasure workhorse. .44 Special is second. When I get more time to go shooting, I'll go back to shooting a lot of .22 LR.

Rifles, it's .308 Win./ 7.62x51 hands down. I am a big fan of the FN-FAL rifle and had 14 different variants before I began thinning the herd, besides M-14 sporters and HK-91's and clones, plus some bolt guns.

I haven't fired a shotgun in 5 or 10 years now, I think.

I can remember when the world was full of .30 cal. carbines and now I hardley ever see one. Now I know why. Larry

.38/.357, 9mm a distant 2nd. Joe

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.357! .44 mag. is second. .22 is third. Larry

Hands down, .45acp followed closely by .357mag.

38sp
357
45acp

Definitely, 38 special!

That's it.

.22 lr by FAR
.357 magnum
9 mm

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Only counting handguns I thought it would be 45acp for sure.
I was only half right
6-45 acp 3 auto, 3 revolver.
6-357 Mag 2 J frame, 2 L frame, 1 N frame with a SA for kicks.
4-40 S&W
3.5 22lr (a Wilson 1911 conversion)
2-44 Mag
2-38 Spl

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Many Many 22's.

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16 .45ACP - 9 semi's, 7 revos
14 9x19

Buck

Before the recent tragic boating accident...
1. 9mmP, by far...
2. .357Mag
3. .45acp
4. .22lr
5. 9mmK
6. .38Spl
7. 5.56mm
8. 7.62mm
9. 12ga
10. .45Colt
11. .40S&W
12. .44Percussion
13. .36Percussion
14. 357Sig
15. .22Mag
16. .41Mag
17. .44Mag
18. .50Percussion/Flintlock
19. .45/70
20. .30Carbine
21. 10mm
22. 7.62x39
23. 5.45x39
24. 7.65mm
25. .31Percussion
26. .38S&W
27. .25acp
28. 9x18
29. 7.62x25
30. 20ga
31. .410Bore
32. 12Bore Percussion

7 .44 specials

Most: .357 mag

Next most: .45ACP

Only the handguns w/o long guns

26 total .22s:

10 S&Ws DAs
10 Ruger SAs
4 derringers
3 Colts


23 Total .44s:

6 S&Ws DAs (includes 1 .44 mag)
6 Ruger SAs (includes 3 .44 mags)
5 Colt SAs
2 USFA SAs
2 Cimarron Open Top SAs
1 American Derringer
1 Colt Walker BP

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35 ".44's" followed by 25 ".357's" and about the same in .22's

.38 Special.

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It's a tie between 9mm, .38/.357, and .45 Colt.

Since the question was which caliber and not which cartridge . . . 38/357.

.357 in both 38sp & 357Mag.
Some day a 357Max & 38S&W - Some day

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357 magnum. Almost a perfect mix of K's and N's.