Originally Posted By: BrentD
Why so many gauges period?


So many? The question should be why so few.

Grab your copy of Cartridges of the World off your shelf. Mine's upstairs at the moment but if my memory is corect, there is maybe 4-5 pages of different shotgun gauges (including the obsolete ones) and 350+ pages of different rifle/pistol calibers.

Balooned was my typo, it was supposed to say ballooned, but bloomed was never meant.