20/05/2025 | Hints from the experts

Dear RS family,

I have just finished processing some additional customer load data for you. That now takes us to 1291 recipes – or handloads, to use the technical term. It’s incredible how much knowledge and information the RS family has amassed over the past 10 or so years. I’d like to say a big thank you in Switzerland’s four official languages – danke, merci, grazie, grazia! The next interesting step for me was to prepare a breakdown of the 1291 data records, which produced the following ranking list:

 

#	Calibre	Number
1	.308 Win	216
2	9mm Luger	76
3	6.5 Creedmoor	65
4	.300 Win Mag	57
5	.30-06 Spring	48
6	.223 Rem	39
7	7 x 64 Brenneke	32
8	6.5 x 47 Lapua	31
9	.357 Magnum	30
10	.338 Lapua Mag	29

 

The fact that the .308 Win calibre tops the list is hardly surprising. This calibre is used very widely, both for hunting and in sport. The 9 mm Luger pistol calibre came an impressive second. In part, we owe the large amount of information for this calibre to our highly valued IPSC shooters. I was pleasantly surprised to see the popular 6.5 Creedmoor calibre next in the list. I would have expected .223 Rem to finish a little higher than sixth, though. The top typical revolver calibre in the list was in ninth spot. This turned out to be the smaller .357 Magnum calibre and not the .44 Rem Mag calibre, which is also popular.

 

I hope this feedback will motivate you to continue diligently submitting the good recipes. My personal wish list definitely also includes older calibres such as 7.5 x 54 MAS, 6.5 x 52 Carcano and 8 mm Lebel M/93 (8x50R). Please contribute so we can provide the RS family with further data. As I always say, who dares wins!

 

Dominik Antenen