Any dream calibers that don't exist?

[grace2u]

Jim--

In Tennessee, you can only varmint/predator hunt with rimfire, shotgun, or whatever is legal for deer during the season in which you are hunting. So , if it's bow season, no centerfire allowed. If it's black powder, no centerfire allowed. During rifle season, you can hunt with a centerfire, so you have to be careful about when you hunt and what you hunt with.

 

[unwise11]

Sounds like it. odd though, most states are opposite, stating you can't have a rimfire during deer season.

 

[natman234]

How about a 3inch magnum 12 gauge loaded with a fin stablized dri ice sabot formed around a hollow steel flechette filled with laxitive?

Geez...Maybe my wife is correct in assuming I have too much free time

 

[unwise11]

No, AGAINST GENEVA CONVENTION!!!
We don't want BG's running around looking for a toilet cause they have the runs

 

[PedalBiker]

How about a 270 Marlin Express?

It's not calibers I see lacking, it's rifles. I'd like to see the steel BLR or Savage 99 come back, or a Marlin 336 with box magazine for pointy cartridges and skip the rubber tips.

A Remington pump in 6.8 SPC with cantilever scope mount and easy to detach barrel for breach cleaning would be nice too.

 

[68wj]

How about a 270 Marlin Express?

It's not calibers I see lacking, it's rifles. I'd like to see the steel BLR or Savage 99 come back, or a Marlin 336 with box magazine for pointy cartridges and skip the rubber tips.

A Remington pump in 6.8 SPC with cantilever scope mount and easy to detach barrel for breach cleaning would be nice too.

How dare a .277 tread into such .30 territory as a lever gun! That would be interesting and I would like to see the .308 MLX do better as it is.

I have never handled a Savage 99, but I like everything about the concept. Other than nostalgia, why did this rifle not stand up against the Winchester or Marlin levers?

A 6.8 pump would be a bad little deer getter! Go ahead and add the 99 too.

 

[natman234]

Dang, The other one I thought up has already been done...
.950 JDJ ... A 20mm shortened and necked

Just read up on WikiP.... WOW! but at the same time comical.

But why not a 50BMG shortened to about the length of a 300WM necked to .308?

 

[hirundo82]

45-35 gov't Just shorten the 45-70 down to increase the capacity of the lever actions while using modern propellants to reach proper velocities

I think some hunters in Indiana are doing that since legal rifles for deer there are defined purely by case length.

 

[JShirley]

.22-250 would be a great round to play with, especially if you could find a 1 in 10" twist. That would let you use readily available .223 bullets, even 68 and 69-gr ones. With low recoil but high velocity. At the very least, get at least a 1 in 12.

 

[R.W.Dale]

.22-250 would be a great round to play with, especially if you could find a 1 in 10" twist. That would let you use readily available .223 bullets, even 68 and 69-gr ones. With low recoil but high velocity. At the very least, get at least a 1 in 12.

you can get a savage LRPV with a 1-9" twist

 

[JShirley]

But we don't know if our young sir can afford a $1300 MSRP rifle, as opposed to something like a Howa...

 

[unwise11]

I've looked at the .22-250.
I think I would rather have a .223, or .260 rem, I'll be handloading soon, got the cash in hand for the press kit, but isn't .22-250 a real short life round?

 

[barnetmill]

How dare a .277 tread into such .30 territory as a lever gun! That would be interesting and I would like to see the .308 MLX do better as it is.

Common lever gun calibers at one time were the 250-3000, 25-35. It is possible the 95 winchester might of had a rifle of two in 7mm, but I am guessing about that. It would certainly seem possible to rebarrel one to 270 winchester.