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Re: Will There Ever Be ...

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I could see 32-20 before 25-20, but would not bet on either. I'd like to see them start making 454 again and maybe 460 s&w.
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dalek wrote:
Archer wrote:I sort of wish I'd gotten one of the Japanese Winchester .405 1895s but to be honest I don't need yet another oddball caliber that's hard to find.
I thought the .405, specially out of a 1895, was popular because of Teddy Roosevelt. In fact, most of the 1895s I see are in that caliber even though they were a drop in the ocean compared to the Russian contract.
I typically have seen the 1895s in 3 or maybe 4 calibers:
1) Original 1895s in 7.62x54 Russian that were languishing in old gunstores prior to the advent of cheap MosIn Nagants and ammo for them. I suspect with the advent of inexpensive ammo somebody snapped those guns up.

2) .30-06s (OR .30-03s) that are likewise original 100 year old guns. Both relatively uncommon and if I picked up a .30-03 I don't know what I'd do with it.
OR Miroku .30-06s from around the 1996-2012 era. (I own one of these.)

3) .405 Winchesters that are Miroku production from around 2001-2010 or so.
There may well be a bunch of .405 originals but I've not seen any to know it.
Hornady put out .405 ammo for a while after the reissue and may still do so but neither ammo nor components are exactly common.

4) I think I've seen one or two .303 British chambered 1895s.
I've got a friend with a .303 Enfield (butchered 'Sporterized') and he's been able to find ammo on the shelf the last couple months here in SoCal but it runs him about a buck and a half a shot.

I already own enough calibers in two ways, 1) takes several different projectile calibers and types, primer types and powders not to mention brass to reload for them. 2) I already need at least 4 oddball brass types and specific bullets for 5-7 semi-unique caliber loads where the components really aren't much good for anything else I load or anything particularly common. Adding .405 Win to that mix really isn't that bad but at the same time it's another couple hundred casings and 300+ bullets plus at least a hundred or two loaded rounds I'd want to have on hand for it. Plus another unique (read expensive) die set.
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