Odd Calibers

The closet thing to an oddball I ever shoot is 6mm Remington out of Pop's Remington 600.

Sort of oddball, slowly growing obsolete out of a different rifle.

Pop bought it new as a teenage in circa 1965. I think it is a neat rifle and neat loading.
 
reading through this thread it's kindof interesting what some people consider odd. 8mm mauser, 22 hornet, 303 british... those are just about as mainstream as sporter cartridges as you can get.
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If you want to pay $40 for 20 rounds of underpowered Remington 8MM Mauser then you are right, if you want a decent round at a reasonable price though, you are reloading or buying Serbian.
 
Hornady and Sellier & Bellot both make some great hunting ammo for 8x57 JS. They are 195 and 196 gr bullets at a MV of 2500-2600 fps. Thats a pretty respectable factory load for the old Mauser. Reloading is always the better option for any caliber though IMO.
 
I agree with steven, there are plenty of other companies besides remington that make hunting ammo and reloading is always one of your best options. there are millions, and I mean millions of 303s and 8mms sold as military surplus that have been used across the US as sporting rifles.
 
I got into reloading over 30 years ago because of the high cost of 7.7x58 Arisaka. My other oddball would be my 7.5mm Swiss... Both are very cool on the oddball scale...

Tony
 
I shoot silhouette, well I shoot at them anyway. My CLA pistol caliber rifle is a Marlin .32-20 and my HP rifle is a 7 IHMSA. Both are a little unusual.

Drue
 
i dont consider the 6mm Remington, 7X57 Mauser, 303 British, or the 8mm Mauser as "odd" or "obsolete". they arent exactly the most mainstream but ill throw them out there anyway.
the most "odd" one i have that i can barely find reloading components for is my good ol 348WCF.
 
.221 Rem Fireball

.357 Wildey Magnum (.475 Wildey Mag necked down to .357)

7.62x61 Sharpe & Hart

.35 Winchester Center Fire (AKA .35 Winchester)
 
though some people consider 5.7 to be "odd-ball" (and unobtainable these days).
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believe it or not my local sportsmans warehouse that just went in has a pretty decent supply of 5.7 american eagle in stock. now that ATK has their hands on 5.7 maybe it will finally become common enough for an ar15 upper in 5.7.
 
believe it or not my local sportsmans warehouse that just went in has a pretty decent supply of 5.7 american eagle in stock. now that ATK has their hands on 5.7 maybe it will finally become common enough for an ar15 upper in 5.7.
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Must be nice, around here the second it comes in 2-3 people (apparently the same folks according to the employees at the stores I frequent) snap it up...

Now that ATK bought Savage, maybe they'll make a bolt gun for it, and then it'll stop being an "odd-ball" cartridge ;-)

I am curious though, for "odd" calibers, do most people find they can dig some up in person if they have to (rather than reload, what with components being hard to come by at times)?
 
all of my oddballs have had to get ammo and reloading components online...

and I'm not sure if they still do but savage did have a varminting rifle available in 5.45x39 and 5.7x28 with a nice thumbhole stock for a while.
 
I would love it if Privi Partizan or Fiocchi could produce a batch of .32 French Long, given the other uncommon calibers they sometimes produce.
 
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