Will There Ever Be ...
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Re: Will There Ever Be ...
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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I typically have seen the 1895s in 3 or maybe 4 calibers:dalek wrote: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.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.
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.