xfyrfiter
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.357,.41,and.44 all automag pistol calibers, and capable of taking any North American game and most African. The .357 is the most accurate long range pistol I have ever fired.
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Cryogaijin
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I would love a 7.62x25 in a modern doublestack design. Ideally in a cz-75 frame. . .
God Guns American Cars
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.35 Whelen in a lever gun.
+1 Cryogaijin. 7.62x25 rules... I just can't find it in anything better than my cz52 lol.
+1 Cryogaijin. 7.62x25 rules... I just can't find it in anything better than my cz52 lol.
JoelSteinbach
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375 Winchester
threoh8
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.45 Remington-Thompson - 250 grains at 1450 fps, in a subgun. Thumper, indeed.
6.5X55 should be more popular. Fine cartridge in all respects.
6.5X55 should be more popular. Fine cartridge in all respects.
M91/30
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Your thinking too small..... How about a 4 gauge
M91/30
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+1 7.62x25
woad_yurt
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What he said. It's one honkin' great handgun round.
gdcpony
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May have been said but:
7x57
.257Roberts
.221Fireball
7x57
.257Roberts
.221Fireball
Cap'n Jack Burntbeard
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.280 British or the. 276 pederson
AZ Five seveN
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6.5 Grendel
Originally Posted by effengee
The 8-gauge shotshell
Perhaps not everyone would like their shoulder meat tenderized???
Your thinking too small..... How about a 4 gauge
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I don't know about 8 bore rifles, but 4 bores supposedly didn't penetrate very well. Way too much surface area to penetrate effectively against elephants. (But apparently the ability to stop a charge was one of its plusses.) And even with those over 20 pound double rifles, recoil was just terrible. Even the great hunter Frederick Selous, who initially used the 4 bore fairly often, got to the point where he couldn't tolerate it.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_bore
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I was going to say my 257 roberts but if everyone here that has mentioned it has one maybe it did take off and I didnt know it. Great round.
CowboyTim
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8x57
Guiding101
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+ 1 on the .35 whelen, and 6mm Remington. Also the 7mm STW.
PRD1
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The .276 Pedersen...
Mentioned by several others (two of whom spelled the name correctly). Developed in the 1920's by J.D. Pedersen as a part of his commission to design a self loading rifle for the U.S., and used in some of the early Garand developmental rifles, also.
This is a really excellent round, and would have served well had the U.S. adopted it. The final loading featured a beautiful 125 grain, 10 caliber ogived spitzer boattail bullet at 2700fps. It demonstrated trajectory and accuracy equal to the .30 M1 ball to 1000 yards.
I've owned and shot 2 rifles in this caliber - a Vickers-Pedersen SLR and a sporter built in 1943 on a 1917 action by Hammer and Gipson in Chicago.
I've been intending to build a rifle in this caliber myself, and finally picked up the perfect candidate action for the job: a Remington Model 30 in .32 Remington, which can be re-barreled without any other action work, the bolt face and magazine already perfect for the Pedersen round. The case can be easily reformed from 6.5x54MS (and I have more than a case of the original FA29 ammo, which was sold-off to NRA members in the 30's).
And I have to grin every time I encounter discussion of such cartridges as the various 6.5 and 6.8 mm designs intended to improve the effectiveness of the AR military rifles - they truly are re-inventing the wheel, so far as military cartridges go: the U.S. Ordnance authorities tested all these things long ago.
PRD1 - mhb - Mike
Mentioned by several others (two of whom spelled the name correctly). Developed in the 1920's by J.D. Pedersen as a part of his commission to design a self loading rifle for the U.S., and used in some of the early Garand developmental rifles, also.
This is a really excellent round, and would have served well had the U.S. adopted it. The final loading featured a beautiful 125 grain, 10 caliber ogived spitzer boattail bullet at 2700fps. It demonstrated trajectory and accuracy equal to the .30 M1 ball to 1000 yards.
I've owned and shot 2 rifles in this caliber - a Vickers-Pedersen SLR and a sporter built in 1943 on a 1917 action by Hammer and Gipson in Chicago.
I've been intending to build a rifle in this caliber myself, and finally picked up the perfect candidate action for the job: a Remington Model 30 in .32 Remington, which can be re-barreled without any other action work, the bolt face and magazine already perfect for the Pedersen round. The case can be easily reformed from 6.5x54MS (and I have more than a case of the original FA29 ammo, which was sold-off to NRA members in the 30's).
And I have to grin every time I encounter discussion of such cartridges as the various 6.5 and 6.8 mm designs intended to improve the effectiveness of the AR military rifles - they truly are re-inventing the wheel, so far as military cartridges go: the U.S. Ordnance authorities tested all these things long ago.
PRD1 - mhb - Mike
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9x19, 45 acp.
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222 Remington
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