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I'm not throwing any of these out! ![[Linked Image]](http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv217/rifle1/CIMG0715.jpg)
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My favorite obsolete cartridge is the .22 Velo Dog. My favorite obsolescent: the .32 Winchester Special.
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Unlike terms like "dead" obsolescent and obsolete have precise definitions. A cartridge is obsolescent when none of the major manufacturers are making production rifles for it.
Examples would be 348 Win, 250 Savage (My two favorites).
A cartridge is obsolete when none of the major manufacturers are making ammunition for it.
Examples would be 256 Winchester, 25 Stevens.
Even by the most casual definition, you would have to live WAAAY out in the boonies not to be able to buy 30-30 ammo, not to mention that thousands of 30-30 rifles are sold every year. Umm.. the 250 Savage is currently in production in Savage's models 14 and 16. So don't write it off as obsolescent yet. Just an FYI.. Sure enough, Savage has just brought the 250 back this year. I have rarely been more delighted to be corrected! 
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Dont really see how the .358 win could be called obsolete when two companies are currently producing rifles, and winchester is still making ammo. Now the 7-30 waters comes to mind as well as the 25, 30 and 32 remingtons.
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How about 30 Herrett? One of my favorite Contender cartridges.
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Has anyone mentioned the .25 Remington? I have three rifles so chambered: a Standard Arms Model G, a Stevens lever action, and a Model 14 Remington. With a Lyman receiver sight, the Remington has printed sub-MOA groups with the Hornady 120 grain RN. Have shot prarie dogs and one mulie with this gun.
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My favorite obsolescent cartridge would have to be the 318 Westley-Richards. Tremendous history, pedigree, and performance. Has a certain "snobbiness" that I find appealing as well.
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What about once-obsolescent cartridges that come back? 9.3x74R, 450/400, .375 Flanged, .450 No.2?
And then there are a bunch of obsolete rimfire cartridges: .25, .32, .56/50 Spencer, .22 WRF, etc.
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Another vote for the .30-40 Krag. Great-Grandad's old sporterized (shortened) Krag. Seven notches in the stock, and I see why. Yes, that's a 100 yard group... ![[Linked Image]](http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww127/tex_n_cal/krag_skinner4.jpg)
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If I said the .30/06, would you hate me? 
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If I said the .30/06, would you hate me? Nope...just mock you behind your back.
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glad to see so many people here have a 300H&H. i am having one custom built. all though saying it is an "obsolescent" cartridge in Africa is stretching it. over here it has reach somewhat of a cult status.so much so that our only local cartridge manufacturer has a full time production line for the 300H&H cartridge.
when a 300wm owner asks me why i am having a H&H built instead of a 300wm, i always like to stir up some trouble just for the hell of it . so i always reply that am having the 300H&H built instead of the 300wm because i was looking for a faster caliber that uses less powder with less recoil. this normally gets the sparks flying. though i am actually a huge fan of the 300wm.
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LT Dan I have a model 70 300 H&H that was made in the same year that I was born. I've used it for well over 4 decades. If the 300 H&H is obsolete, then I guess that I am too!
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mjc, i guess you are as much obsolete as the 300H&H. i am of the opinion that if any of the big ammo and/or rifle manufacturers start manufacturing the 300H&H and ammo tomorrow it will be a best seller before end of 2009.
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