I agree.. I LOVE my 260. It shoots 120gr bullets very well, and at almost 3000fps - with little recoil. It's all I need..

I wouldn't be overly concerned. There's still some WW II and Korean War-vintage ammo people are shooting with generally no problems.

That said, it gets a little tricky with some ammo made for automatic weapons. The best-known is some old 9MM Parabellum and 7.62X25 Tokarev intended for open-bolt SMGs. That stuff is pretty potent. There was also some 7.62X54R, as well.

You ever walk around an urban battlefield and picked up 250 savage?

I guess it depends on what you are using the caliber for.

Because the 243 kills deer just fine and most hunters either don't know or care enough to appreciate the excellent long range potential of a bullet only 0.5mm bigger in diameter.

Hi guys,

My thought on these uncommon/unpopular calibers/cartridges is that my shooting buddies don't try to pocket or walk off with my reloads. My .22 Remington Jet, .22 K-Hornet, .264 Winchester Magnum and 10 gauge shot shells are generally safe from pilfering!

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30-30 is a great round that comes to find u can find it anywhere and many people forget its killed everything in north America. No ones is going to do a run on the ol' 30-30

260 is really a perfectly balanced round for long range work and terminal ballistics. I have one and can vouch for its capabilities. Very similar to te 6.5x55 swede. That round has take all the big game, moose and bear included in Europe for quite some time.

Its been my experience that uncommon calibers are more expensive to stock up on with fewer boxes to buy when you do find a store that has them at a decent price. For me its .257 Roberts and .45-70.

6.5-284, 25-06, 45-70. But I roll my own so I like odd calibers. 308 Norma Mag anyone?

I have a few odd balls that are available but sometimes can be tricky to find what I am looking for
.220 Swift
6.5 Grendel

I would like to add a .257 Roberts to the collection but only in the right action

I have several guns in fairly uncommon calibers - .303 British, 8mm Mauser, .30/40 Krag, 9mm Makarov, 7.62x25, and 16 gauge. You can't find them at Wal-Mart, but when all the common ammo is diappearing at Cabela's or Bass Pro, I can always seem to find mine. Heck, I even found some 16 gauge steel shot at Carter's Country last year when my son & I went duck hunting carrying our 100 year old double barrel shotguns in 12 and 16 gauge.

The 7mm-08 killed it, just like the 7mm Remington killed the .264 win

One of the few instances where a Remmy beat a winny cartridge in calibers over 6mm

Winchester tried to get in on the 7mm bandwagon with the .284 Winchester but it failed to find a good foothold

The 7mm-08 was introduced in 1980 the 260 in 1997 so do not really see how the 7mm-08 killed it.

It killed it because the 7mm-08 already had a strong following, especially in the model 7 Remington line It was stupid to come out with a more or less ballistics lily similar round to compete against what was already out there

I have a 303 British that I recently got cheap. Are these very accurate?

Everywhere I go I see 30-06.

TCM 22 is exotic but at 45 cents is tolerable.
38 Super and 9x23 are other pistol calibers available.

That's what I like about my Carcano. The vast majority of people have never even heard the word let alone know what it is. For some reason, ammo is readily available.

I'm debating building an AR-10in .243, every wal-mart I've been to has tons of .243 on the shelf

Good enough for Lee Harvey Oswald, good enough for you,eh P.H.?....

Don't ever want near one of those again, especially with a brake on it, really either way.

No way to tell until you shoot it. Those rifles have had lots of rounds through them and some with indifferent care.

6.5x55, 45-70

I know at least twelve stores that have a dusty box of 375 win sitting on the shelf for my rifle so no reason to stock up.

I've bought 30.06, 22LR, 7mm-08, 308mx, and 243 almost every day, all regular prices. I'm convinced the 30-30 must be America's most common caliber because of the lack of ammo.

A 243 win, like the 30.06, is still king.

Nothing they make in 7.08 comes close to the "actual" killing power of the 243 using 95gr Winchester XP3. Bullet weight is losing its edge these days. Some of the modern 150gr 30.06 projectiles have negated any reasoning, to use any other bullet in that caliber for any game on the planet.

I still believe common calibers have the availability edge and more so if this crap keeps up. People like me is why there "seems" to be a shortage. I walked through the line at Academy eight times the other day with my limit each time. Those $8 per hour, snot nosed youngsters, don't care.

I have all the same with the addition of: .284 Win, 6.5x55 Mauser, and 7.65x53 Mauser.

Never had a issue finding 308 marlin express ammo