Most Obscure/Rare Caliber Owned?

[BrotherMoses]

I was gonna mention .25-20 also, as I have a Savage Sporter in that caliber. Used to a very common round but not anymore and yes, ammo is expensive. The last two boxes I bought were around $50.00. I think I asked or Bi Mart to order it for me.

I could convince myself to buy a couple boxes at that price, but not some old, unknown how it was stored ammo.

 

[titsonritz]

45/70

 

[bpyycpyy]

I had a brain fart and corrected it a couple posts later, . It's actually a 221 Cheetah Cub

How funny that the Cub Cadet wasn't the real caliber. I had no clue but was just trying to be funny on what popped up on my Google search. Assumed it was so obscure that the internet didn't know and agreed that you were definitely the winner.
How does the snow blower shoot?
I just tried to look up the 221 Cheetah Cub and still claiming winner caliber…

 

[meb]

1905 model 32 Winchester Self Loader
218 bee
25-50 WCF
32-20 WCF
38-40 WCF
44-40 WCF
32 French (only drop once)

 

[Member 38805]

With the vast majority of my guns being pre 1895 or earlier, I have very few that I can simply buy brass for and reload. Almost all of my rifles are in obsolete cartridges that can take a few steps to make from donor brass, or huge reworking of donor brass to make. And some have no donor brass that is close enough to even consider re-forming, and then it gets super expensive at $4-$5 a case to have custom brass turned for them.
Cartridges like .40-63 Ballard Everlasting, .44-77 Sharps Bottleneck, .40-50 Sharps Straight, .40-85 Ballard Everlasting, .44-100 Long Range Ballard, etc. and dozens more, that keep me busy building up my supply so I can continue shooting my old rifles.

 

[wired]

I have a 41 rimfire remington derringer. Dont shoot it much

 

[CastleRocker]

Still have my 6.5 TCU, 30 and 357 Herrett barrels for my Contender from back in my silhouette shooting days.

I wish I hadn't sold my little Martini Henry that I built in 17-44. It was a royal pain in the butt to make brass for, but it was a cool little round. Had to anneal between each sizing step, then fire form, and anneal again, and after all that, they would still split from the mouth down through the shoulder after 3 or 4 reloads, but it would smoke a hole right through 5/8" cold rolled steel.

 

[gmerkt]

Semi-obscure, .38-40 Win (.38n WCF). Before I owned a couple, I always thought this was a strange, ugly cartridge. After owning them, I discovered it was very accurate and no problem to load.

I've owned and loaded for many Austrian 8x56R rifles and carbines. Also loaded for one 8x50R, the parent cartridge. Which was interesting because the originals used a bore-riding bullet.

Over the years, I've loaded for .25-20 Win. and .32-20 Win., also .44-40 Win. Probably semi-obscure for most contemporary shooters.

A modern obscure cartridge is the .30 Thompson Center. Never caught on, why would it as a reinvention of the .308 Win. But it was the basis for the 6.5 Creedmoor which has been successful.

 

[No_Regerts]

I guess the only thing I have that's not as available anymore is my 7x57.

 

[crossbow5]

These are somewhat obscure, 7.65X53 Argentine (Belgian), 7.5X55 Swiss, and 38 super auto (+p).

 

[chukar]

45/90
450/400
A pea shooting 32 calibrating blackpowder rifle.

 

[Cummins Diesel]

325 WSM. Thank goodness for reloading otherwise it would never get any love!

 

[irregularpanda]

It's probably not the rarest thing in the world, but I love shooting my K31.

7.5 x 55 swiss

 

[SCARed]

30.03 I've found 1 place that will load it, but on their terms. Which means you pay $3-4/rd now, and when we feel like making it, we will.

 

[CountryGent]

Probably the 7.62㎜ Nagant. I don't really do weird calibers anymore, but there is still some of that about, and it is easily one of the oddest looking cartridges. (A box of the anemic .32 S&W and at least one Sim-munition came into our possession recently though.)

 

[JRuby]

My vote is the 401 winchester

 

[patrikky]

43 spanish

 

[or.hunter]

25-284

Totally agree on the 325WSM reloading issue also

 

[David Wilson]

.577 Snider
.577/450 Martini-Henry
.44 AutoMag

 

[patrikky]

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