Most commonly owned THR "obsolete" caliber.....

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besides 222, 32 20 what about 218bee, 7 30 waters, 38 55/375 win....lol
...actually the cowboy shooting deal brought back a bunch of dead cartridges for us. dc.
 
32 Remington for a model 14R pump. I made cases by removing the rim and cutting a extraction grove in 30-30 cases and necking to 32.

buflow
 
On the list, 221 Remington Fireball.

I also load for and shoot once in a while 6.5x54 Kurz Mauser. My grandfather brought the rifle back from France after the Great War.
 
I guess no one told my .264 Win it's obsolete. Winchester sells several different guns, and ammo's pretty much everywhere. Maybe not super popular, but I wouldn't call it obsolete.

In terms of actual obsolete calibers I own a .45-90 and a .50-110. Both calibers have modernized remarkably well even if Winchester lost interest in them 100 years ago.
 
theotherwaldo said:
-Still trying to find a source for .30 Remington. Modifying .30-30 Winchester brass makes me nervous.
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Graf and sons have 32 Remington brass for $49.00 / 50.
71103.jpg Graf Brass 32 Remington Unprimed Bag of 50
$49.99

I ordered a couple hundred. Don't know how many they have or how long it will be offered. Just neck down to .30 Remington. The head stamp will be 32 rem but the brass is the same for 25, 30, and 32.

buflow
 
Larry Ashcraft said:
I have a Winchester 94 in 32 Special, made in the 1920s IIRC, 26" octagon barrel and rare "take-up" trigger. It's a good shooter, as soon as you figure out the buckhorn sights. I also have a Savage 99H (IIRC also) in 303 Savage, but I didn't buy it to shoot. It was in of an eight gun collection I bought, and I'll likely sell it. If it was 300 Savage, I would keep it.
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Ya, I passed on a nice 24" octagon barreled Model 99 action for $100 at the last gunshow because it was in .303. There was wood with it, but I wouldn't have called it a "stock set", lol!
Between the unobtanium caliber and the (now) scarcity of aftermarket stocks for these, it broke my heart to leave it there, but my woodworking skills aren't as good as my metalwork......:(
 
7mm TC/U
... rounds no longer generally factory loaded ...
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EDIT: I retract my cartridge designation above since the 7mm TC/U was/is a wildcat and I do not believe it was ever available commercially as the OP stipulated. Sorry.
 
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IMHO, some on the list are obsolete, like the WSL's but many are not. Just not as common or popular as others. If guns have been made to chamber them in the last 10yrs, I can't call them obsolete. My .250Savage is only 4yrs old. I see the .44-40 mentioned but mine I bought only a couple months ago. It and the .32-20 are still produced, while a new .307 has not been made in years.
 
Don't have one of those, do have a 38-55. An old Marlin 93 that Grandpa gave me when I was a little boy, I'm 75 now.
 
"Still trying to find a source for .30 Remington. Modifying .30-30 Winchester brass makes me nervous."

My little Lee Loader I use to load .30-30 is marked also for reloading .30 Remington. It is literally a rimless version of the .30-30 and there is plenty of brass in the head area to cut an extractor groove.

I can understand that cutting rimless extractor grooves in rimmed cases correctly can be a challenge. Which is why I never tried it.
 
Nature Boy said:
My local Academy always has .35 Rem.

.358 Win happens about once every 10 years
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We don't have Academy out here, but Bass pro will have .35 Rem most of the time. I've seen LeverEvolution and Remington's 150 and 200 gr Core Lokt's, but they do sell out. Bass Pro and Ammo Bros. are about the only stores that stock the less-popular calibers. The hassle is you're limited to what brand/bullet style that they have on hand...especially now that California's liberal fascists have decided that the only way to end criminal misuse of a firearm is to ban internet purchases of loaded ammo.
 
CraigC said:
IMHO, some on the list are obsolete, like the WSL's but many are not. Just not as common or popular as others. If guns have been made to chamber them in the last 10yrs, I can't call them obsolete. My .250Savage is only 4yrs old. I see the .44-40 mentioned but mine I bought only a couple months ago. It and the .32-20 are still produced, while a new .307 has not been made in years.
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Who was making a .250 Savage four years ago? Customs are cheating, lol!
 
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