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As is mine, but there's nothing odd about it... just a great cartridge.
Favorite 'Odd' Caliber
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As is mine, but there's nothing odd about it... just a great cartridge.
ThePenguinKnight
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277 Wolverine (6.8x39) is my favorite lately, definitely the most out there I've had. I'm really looking forward to trying it out during deer season this year.
I am holding out on the slim hope for my grandpa's Krag someday, and while 30-40 Krag isn't really that different than a number of other 30cal cartridges, it's different and got some family history.
I am holding out on the slim hope for my grandpa's Krag someday, and while 30-40 Krag isn't really that different than a number of other 30cal cartridges, it's different and got some family history.
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Penguin,
I was just scrolling to the end of this thread to add the .277 Wolverine. I don't have one yet, its my next build project, but I have been watching for for some 18 inch melonite barrels to come back into stock.
Really excited for it and where it fits into the AR caliber family.
I was just scrolling to the end of this thread to add the .277 Wolverine. I don't have one yet, its my next build project, but I have been watching for for some 18 inch melonite barrels to come back into stock.
Really excited for it and where it fits into the AR caliber family.
krinko
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There are several odd ones here at my place, but this is the one I shoot most:
8mm Lebel
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8mm Lebel
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entropy
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I don't really have any 'odd' calibers; The oddest is 7.62x54R. So my vote will have to go for one I've shot before, and has been mentioned by several:
300 H&H Mag. A good, classy, all-around 'odd' caliber.
300 H&H Mag. A good, classy, all-around 'odd' caliber.
Neatest oddball I have gotten to shoot is .404 Jeffrey. That was a sweet shooting rifle.
I don't really own an 'odd' caliber.
I don't really own an 'odd' caliber.
T.R.
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22 MAG. Ammo is almost impossible to find locally.
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1948CJ2A
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I think the OP meant "cartridge" not "caliber".
Caliber would be referring just to the bullet diameter.
That said, my favorite odd-ball cartridge would probably be my 250 savage. Runner-up would be my 7x57. Honorable mention: 6.5x55 & 240 Wby Mag.
Caliber would be referring just to the bullet diameter.
That said, my favorite odd-ball cartridge would probably be my 250 savage. Runner-up would be my 7x57. Honorable mention: 6.5x55 & 240 Wby Mag.
threoh8
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I'll see your .257 Roberts, and raise with a 6.5-.257 (AKA 6.5 Roberts). It was bascially a way to use then-common .257 Roberts cases in surplus 6.5X50 Arisakas. The cartridge is very similar to the 6.5X57 Mauser.
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if you enter the world of reloading all the calibers mentioned and most others can be at your finger tips with a little work. custom dies are available for just about all calibers with custom bullets and cases too, and custom bullet casting molds can be made too. i have been able over the years to pick up most of the supplies for reloading odd ball calibers at flea markets,gun shows and swap meets, but now you have the best place in the world to get what you need to reload just about any caliber made and its called the INTERNET. pre internet looking took a lot of time and effort and all but the die hard gave up on loading the odd-rare calibers. i realy enjoy making old winchester-marlin rifles along with old militery rifles come alive and spit fire and lead again. eastbank.
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krinko
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"...pre internet looking took a lot of time and effort and all but the die hard gave up on loading the odd-rare calibers."
Amen to that. The empties next to my Berthier are an accumulation of old Remington 8mm Lebel that took years of gunshows to acquire.
Now I just order the PPU rounds over the 'net.
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Amen to that. The empties next to my Berthier are an accumulation of old Remington 8mm Lebel that took years of gunshows to acquire.
Now I just order the PPU rounds over the 'net.
-----krinko
Speedo66
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Since it hasn't been listed here yet, I'll add the .38-40 my 1889 '73 Winchester shoots. Little bottleneck .40 cartridge shoots like a modern S&W .40. Picks up a few FPS out of a rifle barrel though.
It's become somewhat more popular with the advent of cowboy shooting, but unless you hand load, the $75 or so for a box of factory ammo can get a little pricey.
It's become somewhat more popular with the advent of cowboy shooting, but unless you hand load, the $75 or so for a box of factory ammo can get a little pricey.
Salmoneye
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.357 Herrett
And the short lived .35 S&W Auto...
And the short lived .35 S&W Auto...
TRX
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I load .50 Beowulf, 7.65x53 Mauser, 7.7 Arisaka, and .30 Remington (the real one).
In pistols, .44 AMP and .40 Super.
In pistols, .44 AMP and .40 Super.
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From a rifle i don't own...but when I saw the cartridge at a local show I couldn't pass it up. On the left, one of my favorites, the 375 H&H, on the right, the 577 Tyrannosaur
Vern Humphrey
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My oddballs include:
A 6.5X55 Swede (sporterized by Kimber, and restocked by me)
A .30-40 Krag, cut down a hundred years ago, and with a cocking piece sight.
A .22 Hornet (in this case, a M82 Kimber)
A .303 M1905 Ross
Bigfoot Wallace , a customized Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen.
A 6.5X55 Swede (sporterized by Kimber, and restocked by me)
A .30-40 Krag, cut down a hundred years ago, and with a cocking piece sight.
A .22 Hornet (in this case, a M82 Kimber)
A .303 M1905 Ross
Bigfoot Wallace , a customized Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen.
A .270 Winchester. We are in the magnum era. I had a .300 RUM one time, but it only made me love my .270 more. I wonder who owns it now. Did I mention my .270 is almost old enough to drink and vote? Yeah, it was built at the end of the good old days.
JohnnyFlake
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.454 Casull which is definitely odd for a rifle, as there are only one or two brands that made them and they are very limited . I love my Rossi M92 Lever Gun in .454 Casull.
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speedreed
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I have to say 6.5x55 SE, since I own several rifles in that caliber. But for an almost favorite but still odd I'd say 7.5 x 55 Swiss. For just plain odd, that would be 32Win Self Loading. Fotunately I have the dies to reload that one.
Big7
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For the 7.65X53 guy's of which I am one..
That was/is the 7.65 BELGIAN.. Later and more widely known as
the 7.65 Argentine because Argentina bought more than any other
country.
I have the Argentine, complete (except for the bayonet) and it's a true
beauty and a pleasure to shoot. The 1891 not the 1909 is what I have.
That was/is the 7.65 BELGIAN.. Later and more widely known as
the 7.65 Argentine because Argentina bought more than any other
country.
I have the Argentine, complete (except for the bayonet) and it's a true
beauty and a pleasure to shoot. The 1891 not the 1909 is what I have.
TRX
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> Is the 35 Remington "Odd" enough? Love that cartridge.
Both Izhmash and Molot used to make Russian-market Kalashnikovs in .35 Remington, which seems to be a very popular hunting cartridge in Russia. The .35 dropped from the Izhmash catalog five or six years ago, though.
I'd guess the homegrown 9x39 (7.62x39) may be filling in for the absence of the .35 now.
Both Izhmash and Molot used to make Russian-market Kalashnikovs in .35 Remington, which seems to be a very popular hunting cartridge in Russia. The .35 dropped from the Izhmash catalog five or six years ago, though.
I'd guess the homegrown 9x39 (7.62x39) may be filling in for the absence of the .35 now.
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