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Was in a LGS recently where they had a svelte little Steyr Schoenauer in .250-3000 at a good price. I keep thinking it’d be a fantastic basis for the fast-twist .22-250 I’ve always wanted as a deer/pronghorn rifle.

Trying...

....To...

...Resist...

I've always loved the little Remington Custom Shop Model 7 Mannlicher rifles. I've also always wanted a cool little carbine in 358 Win. I just bought a Model 7 MS in 243, and will send the barreled action to JES to rebore to 358. Should make a great little woods rifle.

I’ve got a 9.3x62 Krieger Barrel sitting beside my Sako 85 280 AI... I blooded it and then set it aside.

Hell of a round, but I really don’t need all that mass for scrawny whitetails...

250 grain TTSX / 60 grain 223 AI = a heck of a lot of 223’s at the same time.

I've always wanted a .22 Hornet double rifle. Even bought a couple of old actions and forends from 2 side by side shotguns from an auction in the UK when I lived there. Just found them under the work bench this morning and don't think I'll ever get them built. Had plans for an adjustable regulating system to make it easy to zero which I designed about 30 years ago, roughly based on the Valmet 412 system. Bought the actions about 16 years ago before I immigrated to the US and they've moved with me ever since.

Ruger 77/44 rebarreled to same 44 mag but use a full diameter bull barrel of high quality match grade. The factory barrel is not that large in OD at the chamber section anyway so it shouldn’t result in that heavy of a barrel anyway. Just to see what the 44 mag is capable accuracy wise.
Lathe is gone but also wanted to do a 357 B&D on same action, both barrels fitted as switch barrel setup. Looks like an easy action to fit a barrel to just like the big brother Ruger 77 action I’ve fit several barrels to.

I don't know if it is "off the wall" or "practical", but I had a rat Savage 1899 in .22 HP that wouldn't shoot ANYTHING but the 70 grain .227 Sisk bullets. I tried every .224 bullet I could find, as well as some of gonahhh's cast bullets and the Horn .227" SP that was designed for the 5.6x52R. I even tried filing off the tip of the .228" Horns to shorten them to the same length as the Sisks'. That rifle keyholed everything besides those Sisk bullets.

I had the barrel lined with a Lilja .224 and rechambered to the same cartridge. It turned it into a pretty neat rifle, but a bit pointless. Folks either like things totally original, or if they're shooting something custom made they're normally shooting the latest and greatest. I sold that one, but have another .22 HP that I am thinking of doing the same thing with. If I do, I'll probably have it reamed and twisted to fire the 60 partition.

Back in the 70's when I was 10 or 12 years old and reading everything gun-related I could get my hands on, I came up with some crazy ideas. I see from some of the posts above that I wasn't the only one thinking of a .25 acp rifle. But when I read about this thing of "necking down" cartridges, I wondered if anybody had tried necking down a .600 Nitro Express to .17 caliber yet. (I hadn't learned about .14's and smaller yet.)

bhemry,
I think there's a .17 BMG (as opposed to a .17 Nitro Express). It is called the .17 Incinerator. I have no idea if it is real, or just a joke.






Of course, it's been AI'd.






What about the .17 Giraffe on the right? I have no idea what is on the left, but head spacing shouldn't be an issue.

How about an AR-10 with a 16.5" barrel in .35 Remington? Or a Martini Cadet in 7.62X25 Tokarev?