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I inherited my dad's .303 Savage Model 99. I dare you to find ammo for it. I reload, though, and hope to take an elk with it this fall. It's killed lots of deer and coyotes and wild cows (on our family's ancestral ranch when Dad was a youngster), but not yet an elk.
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Mine would be the Savage .22 Hi Power. Low recoil, accurate (after learning how to load for it), and capable of taking deer. It's become my favorite walking-around, deer hunting and general woods loafing rifle.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
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My favorite is the .25-20. I bought one of the Marlin 1894CL's when they came out with that chambering.
I've had a 3X Leupold on it, and it now wears a custom set of of iron sights.
My favorite tree squirrel rifle. Just the thing for those days when you are out after greys and you bump into something much bigger.
Have had a serious case of desire for one of the pre-64 94's I've seen lately in the .25-35. Seem to recall that Francis E Sell hunted an "improved" version of that round in his later years. BTW, locally, new .25-35 ammo runs about $50 a box. So somebody still likes it. E
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With three rifles plus an AI version, My favorite has to be the .250-3000.
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Robert E. Howard
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25-20 - I have a Savage 23B.
.303 British - I have a nice No.4 and would really like a British style sporter circa 1910.
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I started to read this thread, and pretty soon realized how many rifles chambered for "obsolescent" cartridges people have cited that I own: .22 Hornet, .25-35 WCF, .303 Savage, .30-40 Krag, .300 Savage, .303 British, .300 H&H, 8x57 Mauser, .350 Rem. Magnum., .358 Win., .358 Norma and .38-55.
I have also owned rifles (often more than one) in .22 K-Hornet, .22 High Power, .220 Swift, .25-20, .32 Special, 8mm-06, .40-65 and .450-400.
I simply can't call the .257 Roberts, .264 Winchester Magnum, 7x57 and .30-30 obsolescent--especially the latter. All have been chambered in recent years in a number of rifles, and the .30-30 has never been out of production. Ammo for all four can also be found in any decent-sized sporting goods store.
Perhaps the most obsolescent cartridge I've ever owned a rifle for is the 6.5x54 Mauser (NOT Mannlicher). It apparently wasn't chambered by anybody any time after the 1930's, and even factory ammo ceased being produced in the 1960's.
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I would love to own a clamshell double in 9,3X65R Brenneke or in 8X65RS.
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noone picked the sweet swede????
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It ain't obsolescent, by any stretch of the imagination.
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John Steinbeck
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My most obsolete is my 50-70. I like it so much I had a encore barrel made for it.  I'm thinking about acquiring one of the M1885 Creedmoor 50-90 Sharps from Gunbroker. Why? Just because...and even though it's been obsolete for many years, everything I need to get it up and running is easily available. I betcha it ain't too obsolete to slay an elk...
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How about the 284 win?
Don't know if it's "officially" obsolete or not, but that would be my pick.
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~Admiral Yamamoto~
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~
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7x61 Sharpe & Hart, .308 Norma
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now THAT is what i wanted to hear about my swede  i figured most people would think of it as obsolescent. -Matt
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Perhaps we need to define obsolescent. My Webster's unabridged states the primary meaning as "becoming outdated or outmoded."
Of course obsolescent is all about becoming obsolete: "no longer in general use; fallen into disrepute."
All of which is why I can't apply obsolescent to cartridges like the .257 Roberts, 6.5x55, 7x57 and .30-30. All are currently or frequently chambered in factory rifles, and ammunition it widely available. The same might be said for the .35 Remington.
I would even challenge the notion that the .300 Savage is obsolescent. Not with at least a million Savage 99's in the caliber still out there, not to mention some other rifles, and ammunition being made by all of the Big Three ammo-makers.
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Mule Deer: what cartridges would you place in the second category of that definition; that is, which have "fallen into disrepute?"
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Mine would be the .256 Newton...jim
LCDR Jim Dodd, USN (Ret.)
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6.5x54 Mauser, 11mm Egyptian, 9.3mm B-S. Rounds like that....
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Looks like I can end my search for a 350 Rem Mag donor...
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Are you actually looking for a .350? I am thinking about selling one. But not my "donor" 9.3!
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