What's the most uncommon cartridge you load for?

[HexHead]

.257 WBY Magnum.

 

[dragon813gt]

Since you can't buy ammo for it outside of online auction sites it would have to be 356 Winchester. Not nearly as uncommon as some cartridges mentioned but it's a dead one.

 

[hovercat]

35 WSL. Less powerful earlier version of the .351 WSL.

 

[springer99]

How about 22Hornet, 256Win.Mag and the very popular 6.5JDJ. First one for varmints and the second two for 200yd Metallic Silhouette competition.

 

[TimSr]

.25 acp and 6.5 Jap

 

[Toprudder]

An incredibly common cartridge, but not one that a lot of people reload - 7.62x39. Have been doing that for my .308 barrel Mini-30.

Someone mentioned 30-30, I have a Win 94 I just started loading for.

But the rarest for me, and one I don't think has been mentioned yet, is 450 Bushmaster. I have never seen that anywhere but mail order. Remington and Hornady are the only factory loads. The only new brass for sale is Hornady @ $0.85 per. Once fired brass is very uncommon.

 

[wbbh]

.405 Winchester, "Big Medicine"
.450 Magnum Express (Made from turned down .454 Casull brass)

 

[mstreddy]

My uncommon ones are a few that are not that easy to find.
6.5x51 Japanese
7.5x58 Japanese
30-40 Krag, I have only ever found 4 boxes of factory ammo for it.
45 Colt, not because it's rare, but to make it affordable
300 Blackout for same reasons
303 Brit not an everyday Walmart round in my parts

And will be loading 10.4x47 for a Vetterli-Vitali soon. I doubt I would find that ammo -- or could afford it.

 

[ReloaderFred]

.45-120 Sharps, with smokeless powder
9x25 Dillon
9x23 Winchester
9x21
.400 Cor-Bon
.41 Action Express
.375 Winchester
.444 Marlin
.32 H&R Magnum

Some aren't uncommon so to speak, but hard to find factory ammunition for them, which I probably wouldn't shoot anyway.........

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

357 Herret, 6mm Rem, .22 Hornet--midway had brass last week, 38-40, not uncommon at our SASS meets, and .45 Scofield used in my .45 Colt Rugers, and .45 Special. The .45 special was a special run of brass by starline.

 

[DM~]

I consider many of the ones mentioned here already, that I also load, fairly common... Like the .444 Marlin, 25/20, 22 Hornet, .280 Rem. and the like...

Some less common ones are,

.338-06 imp.
9.3x74R imp.
.375 RDS
.338 RDS
7x74R imp.
8x57 jrs
.240 Wby.

and some others that aren't coming to mind right now...

DM

 

[PRD1]

I really like...

My grandfather was involved in field testing the Pedersen rifle in the late-1920's. Until you mentioned it, I had almost forgotten the stories about the conduct of those tests he told me when I was a child.

this cartridge. I once owned a Vickers-Pedersen SLR in this caliber (and still have a full case - 1680 rounds - of the FA29 ball ammunition. The rifle was a hoot to shoot, though the toggle would often hit the brim of one's hat, and would have given you a headache if you were wearing one of the old soup-plate helmets. It was a mechanical marvel, but would never have been so fine a military rifle as the Garand (originally developed in the same caliber) turned-out to be, IMO. The cartridge would have served admirably, though, I think, since it was ballistically similar to the cal. .30 M1 ball up to 1000 yards, though it would not have performed as well in special purpose types such as AP and tracer, etc., due to its limitation to lighter projectiles.
The rifle I currently have in this caliber is the only sporting rifle I've ever found chambered for it (though I know many more must have been built, considering the large amount of surplus ammunition sold-off in the 1930s): the rifle was built about 1943 on a 1917 action by Hammer and Gipson (Vernor Gipson, of wildcat fame) in Chicago, and is very nicely made (and accurate), though the stock is actually pieced-up from the military original.
My shooting ammunition is loaded in both the FA brass and re-formed 6.5x54mm MS.
I later acquired a Remington Model 30 rifle chambered for the .30 Remington, which is perfect for the .276 round, and intend to one day make up another rifle in .276 on that action.

mhb - Mike

 

[Catpop]

I guess it would be my 38 wcf and 32-40 ballard.

 

[CarJunkieLS1]

7mm Valkyrie is my most uncommon caliber. When the most recent barrel order comes in there is still less than 50 rifles in this caliber in existence.

 

[Toprudder]

7mm Valkyrie is my most uncommon caliber. When the most recent barrel order comes in there is still less than 50 rifles in this caliber in existence.

Possibly from the same chamber reamer?

 

[Nature Boy]

Since several has said they do reload 30-30, would any of you want some clean, once fired brass? I didn't count it but it's ~50 cases.

Send me a PM with your address and I'll send it to you

 

[Wryfox]

38-44 Target (the 1880s version). Brass must be made from 357. Tricky but doable. Annie Oakley used this caliber but now looong obsolete.

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[Curator]

577-450 Martini Henry, 577 Snider, 11.7X51R Swedish, .310 Cadet, .40-65 Win. .221Fireball/.30 rimmed, .35 Whelen AI, .30-30 AI, .445 Mag, .360 DW. .45 Super.& .44Colt.

 

[Reloadron]

Likely the The .38/.45 Clerke (pronounced "clark"), aka .38/.45 Auto Pistol or .45/.38 Auto Pistol is a wildcat semi-automatic pistol cartridge developed by Bo Clerke and introduced in Guns & Ammo in 1963. I still have the RCBS custom dies to loadf for it and would like to build another pistol.With good brass yiu get about 4 losdings and they split. Fun cartridge.You neck a .45 ACP down to a .357 and use a .38 Super barrel in a 1911 frame. Pretty cool round,

Ron

 

[CarJunkieLS1]

Possibly from the same chamber reamer?

I'm not sure what you are asking. I know the creator of this caliber pretty well. and he has said more than once that when the barrels that people have ordered directly through him and another online source there will be 49 barrels that have been made and sold.

 

[bonza]

.22 TCM
.218 Bee
.297/.230 Long
.310 Cadet
.32/20 Win.
.38/200
.41 Swiss
.43 Beaumont
11.3x36R Werndl
.450 Adams
.455 Webley
.500/.450 No.1 Musket
.500/.450 No.2 Musket
.577/.450 M-H
.577 Snider

 

[El Viejo]

Not all that unusual, but 7-30 Waters.

 

[clank]

25/20.
17 Rem

 

[WiTom]

.218 Bee and 22 Hornet for the Win Model 43's, 303 British for the Lee's. 30/30 casings loaded with 308 bullets for Magnum Research BFR.

 

[osprey176]

218 Bee, 257 Wby, 30 & 357 Herrett, 7.7 Jap, 375 Win, 444, and more. Nothing real exotic, but the Herretts always get a second look at the range.