name 3 cartridges you wish you had firearms for.

[zardoz]

25 ACP
454 Casull
50 BMG

[HABCAN]

.44-40, '92 Winchester.
.40-70, Lee Enfield rebarrel conversion.
.38-55/.375 Win. single shot, Rem roller??

[lbaize3]

6.5-06
.358
.375 Ruger

[Blacksmith]

Is someone compiling all this data? Gun makers want to know!

[TXGunNut]

Is someone compiling all this data? Gun makers want to know!

I wouldn't be so sure, they seem to be in a rut. Most of those I've seen mentioned were a little too far off the beaten path for the mainstream gun buyer. It was hard for me to name three, seems I already have several of the rifles other folks wish for.

[Kraschenbirn]

.50-70 (Rolling Block)
.222 Rem ('cause I ain't got one)
.333 OKH (just for the fun of it)

[Alan in GA]

.358 Win
.375 Win
35 Rem

[Firebricker]

.22 Hornet specificly Ruger #3 No real logic or reason just want one.

.454 Casull Always liked them and the work of D.Casull to get it going.

.50 BMG In any accurate rifle but preferably a Barrett. Would give me the final push to move west where it would be easier to find places to shoot long range. FB

[alamogunr]

Is someone compiling all this data? Gun makers want to know!

I wouldn't be so sure, they seem to be in a rut. Most of those I've seen mentioned were a little too far off the beaten path for the mainstream gun buyer. It was hard for me to name three, seems I already have several of the rifles other folks wish for.

After reading thru this thread, it is noticeable that much of the wishful thinking centers around cartridges that are no longer available. Could this be because they didn't sell well when available?

One of my weaknesses is that I seem to covet something when I can't get it anymore.

[Dave18]

32-20,
shot one long ago out of some levergun(had like a 24in barrel on it) most pleasureable rifle to shoot, low noise, amazingly accurate, no recoil, just plain fun, the guy who had it died and the gun disappeared(go figure)

9mmx39, the Russian version of the blackout, just thought it would be neat/fun to play with,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Vintorez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%C3%9739mm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af96XDdjvxY

6.5 creedmore, something that shoots real flat with less recoil than the 300wm for getting way out there

[flyingmonkey35]

I already cast for these but don't own the firearms.

45acp
45colt
44
40s&w

[ascast]

Does the 4 bore come with extra undies?

[jabo52521]

30 carbine. Pistol.
35 Remington
44 mag. Carbine.
Just think they are neat.

[Geraldo]

.44 Merwin-Hulbert
.470 NE
.280 AI

[DCM]

50BMG, 20mm, 30mm
Can't afford any of them but I can dream.

[Gar]

50 BMG
45/70
56-56 Spencer

[WILCO]

.218 Bee
.22 Hornet
.32-20

[WILCO]

.222 Rem ('cause I ain't got one)

I had one. It was in a Savage. Great shooting rifle and cartridge. Never should of sold it.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

No, never fired one but I remember when they were available for sale but could not afford one.

Another even better would be the Lahti L-39 Finnish anti tank rifle "These were chambered for the more commonly available Solothurn 20x138B (aka 20mm Breda) round, ....". The guns and ammo were sold by Interarmco in Alexandria VA, I went to Interarmco when they were still in business couldn't afford much in those days but had fun looking. They were quite a business, some say it was a front for the CIA to supply arms to trouble spots around the world.

Here is a little more history and a link.


http://www.smallarmsreview.com/displ...darticles=1230

I probably still have an "American Rifleman" with an article on shooting the Solothurn, somewhere around 1968. The author reported that the recoil, in a semiautomatic, was very powerful but seemed slow, pushing you back rather than hitting you. It was an extremely good 20mm. antitank rifle by the standards of 1936 or so, when the idea was probably conceived. The trouble was that by the time things really started happening, tanks had got extremely better. Not much, in the European war, depended on lighter armoured cars.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

.275 rigby
.338 Federal
40 mm Bofors

I used to know a Kuwaiti air force officer who, post-1990, had an anti-aircraft gun in his garden, and went around saying "Next time..." I don't know the make, but it would have been about 37 or 40mm. He said nobody else seemed to want it, and the bigger ones were too big to tow behind his car, so that would have been wrong.