Who loves the oddball chamberings?

[JesseL]

How many here have an affinity for the calibers that are a little off the beaten path?

For example I have:

• A 6mm Remington instead of a .243 Winchester
• A .308 Norma Magnum instead of a .300 Winchester Magnum
• A .41 Magnum instead of a .357 or a .44

I've got a plenty of the more common chamberings too, but these have a special place in my heart.

 

[ieszu]

I have a rifle in .338 Lapua, a 1911 in .224 BOZ (cost me $1600 for the reamers and reloading dies done to spec... sold it for $3500, all included)

I even have a .243-.50 (.50 BMG necked down to .243) but I might sell it to a friend so I can finance the next fun project.

 

[Zeke/PA]

I like the .22 Hornet, the .250 Savage and the .257 Roberts.
Most of my pistol shooting is done with the good ole' .38 Special.
Zeke

 

[jnyork]

.33 WCF, oldie but goodie.

.38 ACP, another oldie but goodie.

Always lots of fun showing up at the range with an oldball, "Hey, whatthehell is that thing yer shootin' there?"

 

[McCall911]

How many here have an affinity for the calibers that are a little off the beaten path?

<sigh>
"My name is Glenn and I'm an obscure caliber junkie."



I also like the .41 Magnum, but I also like:
.401 Powermag.

.38-40 (instead of 44-40)

6.5x54 Mannlicher Schoenauer instead of 6.5 Swede

.455 Webley

.333 Jeffery

.32 Winchester Special

...and these are just off the top of my head. There are probably a few dozen more.

I know. I need therapy or something...

 

[JesseL]

I don't think I could resist putting a few rounds through my Great-Grandfather's 1862 Colt Pocket Police .38 rimfire conversion, if I could actually find .38 rimfire ammunition.

 

[220_Swift]

22 WRF
218 Bee
25-20 win (25 WCF)

I like them because they are fun shooters, and just a little bit different.

 

[packnrat]

i like it when those shooting said, do not pick up all of there brass.



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[birdbustr]

7mm STW...... It's getting increasingly scarce, but the 8mm Remington Magnum can be necked down to fit. I'm not sure if the 7mm Rem Ultra Mag can be resized to fit, but if I find a casing at the range I'll test it out for resizing. I know they are very close in size. I reload, so I'm not too worried if they quit making the factory loads anyway.

 

[Sam1911]

How about a Ruger Blackhawk in .30 M1 Carbine?

Not an odd round, but an odd combination.

 

[Diamondback6]

Does .45Super or .450SMC count?

 

[jakk280rem]

me too. how about:
9x18 makarov
260rem
41mag
16ga
357 maximum

 

[Floppy_D]

.243-.50 !!! What does your ballistic data look like?

 

[jgo296]

yeah whats this 243 50 all about

 

[MMCSRET]

43 Spanish, 32-20, 32 s&w and long, 6x47, 6.5 jap, 32-40

 

[Hogfan1911]

Have 2 .41 mags, and a serious craving for a couple of 10mm's. A .280 Rem. There's a .32 S&W Long and a .32-20 at my parent's house. Oh, yeah, and I have something called an SKS in a crazy metric thing called the 7.62x39mm. Really weird.......

 

[BackCountry]

7 mm STW - I reload so no problem other than my 11 year old daughter now claims it as her big game rifle. Told the wife I needed a new hunting rifle - AR-10 It shoots 1/2 MOA groups from the bench. I may have to go with a 300 SAUM upper for some really large game.

16 ga. Yea, I load for that one too.

10 mm auto - not that odd ball but there are about as many choices for loads stocked on the sporting goods shop's shelves as there are for the STW.

Actually I hand load for every gun I own because I get better performance out of my own loads. Factory ammo is only for self defense CCW use.

 

[32winspl]

I still love and use .32 Win Spl (note my name), my Gramps old 38 S&W, and my Mom's old 28 guage shotty.

edit to add; My folks have my Gramps old Win 1905 or 1907 in .32 Self Loading. Ammo's kinda scarce, so we haven't shot it in years.

 

[ieszu]

.243-.50

It was idea a a few of us in gunsmithing school worked on together. Essentially it was to see how fast we could shoot a projectile. We tried .20 caliber and .22 caliber bullets, but they spun too fast and essentially disintegrated in mid-flight. .243 was the smallest we could to stay together (even if we used Barnes solid copper rounds).

I custom built a single shot action, and for reloading I simply annealed the neck of about 100 cases, sized them down and started at 230gr of H50BMG powder (by Hodgdon) and worked up from there. We clocked the round going about 4700 ft. per sec.

Makes a huge bang, kicks like a mule and knocks over boxes of ammo a few tables down at the range.

 

[Dumpster Baby]

I have .256 Winchester Magnum and .22 Remington Jet. If I could afford it I would also be shooting .19 Badger and 5.7mm Johnson.

 

[redneckdan]

.30-284, chambered in an f-class style rifle built on a vz-24 action; I trued that action, fitted the barrel, reamed the chamber, milled a 60 MOA tipped base, bedded the stock....etc

.300 whisper, chambers in a 16" ar-15 carbine. Built from a DPMS parts kit, superior arms lower, DMPS upper, oly arms barrel that I was able to find short chamber and finish chambered to my specs.

.357 herrett, chambered in a t/c contender; I bought a 10" octagon .357 and reamed to .357 herrett.

Projects I'm looking at:

8mm Winchester magnum, basicly take a stock mauser barrel, re-chamber and modify .338 win mag dies and brass to load a .323 bullet.

.22 mini-whisper, take the .22 k-hornet with slightly modified dimensions, chamber in a barrel stubbed contender with a wicked twist and shoot 80-90gr match bullets sub sonic.

 

[R.W.Dale]

I'm a bit different in that I like normal chamberings in oddball platforms

I own or have owned

bolt action 30-30's
3 diffrent bolt action 7.62x39's
a pump action .223
an autoloader in 6.5x55
and
A levergun in .243

 

[doc2rn]

6.5x50 Jap
.32 H&R Mag
.338
The list of what I have owned has too many oddities to mention.

 

[Thernlund]

I'd love to get into wildcats and weird chamberings. I have to get into the groove with reloading first before I start goofing with those though.


-T.

 

[Hypnogator]

Why shoot a .308 when you can shoot a .30-40 Krag?