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I live under a rock and only recently heard about this.
It is crazy that guns/ammo are in such high demand yet we cannot get either of them DESPITE having a gun friendly or at least gun neutral administration.
Oh well, other than maybe a few more pistols and a dedicated varmint rifle, I have enough guns to last my lifetime.
Remington 100 grain 250 Savage ammo usually runs $39-$40 a box, and they only make one run a year. Two-three months ago Midway had it on sale half price. Sold out pretty quick. I'm seeing the writing on the wall, the new owners may not see the value in making one run a year. It might be moving onto the obsolete list. I'm stocked up for life. If anyone has a 250 you might want to get some, another online supplier had it for 2 bucks more than Midway, but I'm sure it will be gone soon too, if it's not already sold out.
It makes financial sense, I can understand as a company why they wouldn't want to mess with the semi obsolete calibers. Too bad there is so much liability these days thanks to the ambulance chasing attorneys or guys like us could make a nice little business loading for obsolete/proprietary/wildcat calibers.
I used to hand load for several dozen calibers. I would scrounge components off gunbroker and other sites for the harder to find calibers and just load my own for myself and friends. Higher quality loads and ability to reload immediately. Someday I will get back into handloading again. Too bad I sold my stuff before the Obama administration.
The interesting thing is ammo for those calibers like 250 sav would go like wildfire on the net but you could often find them for cheap at an older mom and pop gun shop because the local traffic rarely requested anything outside of the standard calibers.
For years Hornady was the only source for 348 Winchester bullets for reloading. Then, a couple of years ago, they come out with it in the soft pointed variety for tube fed lever actions.
It barely hit the market, and they discontinued it. I picked up a few boxes from Midway (they seem to often stock discontinued stuff). Now, they have also discontinued their regular 200 grain 348 bullet, my mainstay. I think Barnes and some other smaller companies may have dabbled with it, but luckily I have enough stock for my lifetime and then some.
Some have referred to it as the greatest lever action gun/cartridge ever, and now it is all but non available. What a shame. Ditto Model 95 in 35 Winchester, a great gun/caliber combo NLA. (The guy named Lewis on that Alaskan show had one). I heard that Winchester kept making 348 ammo for years because it was still popular in Alaska.
If they did not have "antler restrictions" (3 point/side) at my upstate property I would use a lever gun with a peep sight, but as it is I must use a scoped rifle. Even then, in the brush, it is almost impossible to know you are good. Unless you are hunting open fields from a blind (which my Uncle would have said was not really hunting) it is a stupid rule.
It barely hit the market, and they discontinued it. I picked up a few boxes from Midway (they seem to often stock discontinued stuff). Now, they have also discontinued their regular 200 grain 348 bullet, my mainstay. I think Barnes and some other smaller companies may have dabbled with it, but luckily I have enough stock for my lifetime and then some.
Some have referred to it as the greatest lever action gun/cartridge ever, and now it is all but non available. What a shame. Ditto Model 95 in 35 Winchester, a great gun/caliber combo NLA. (The guy named Lewis on that Alaskan show had one). I heard that Winchester kept making 348 ammo for years because it was still popular in Alaska.
If they did not have "antler restrictions" (3 point/side) at my upstate property I would use a lever gun with a peep sight, but as it is I must use a scoped rifle. Even then, in the brush, it is almost impossible to know you are good. Unless you are hunting open fields from a blind (which my Uncle would have said was not really hunting) it is a stupid rule.
The Model 71 is also a (secret) movie star!
Can't remember if I shared this story before.
About 12 years ago I came across an older fellow who had about 300 guns that he said he wanted to sell. I did not have the funding to buy all of them but said I would be happy to buy in blocks of 10-25K which would allow me to then resell some of them and use the profits to keep the ones I wanted.
The guy did give me a full list of guns which included a 348 as well as a 351 Winchester self loading (one of the models used to kill Bonnie and Clyde) and several other cool models/calibers but he would never give me a price on them. I think he liked the attention more than the actual need to get $$. He died recently, still had not moved to town like he had been promising his wife for 15 plus years and I am sure he was sitting on all of those guns still. Oh well.
I just went to the Barnes website … seems they still make a 220 gr and 250 gr bullet for the 348. Likely, that is why Hornady stopped competing. Barnes seems to specialize in obsolete rounds.
A 220 grain bullet at just under 2,500 FPS, or a 250 gr at 2,300 FPS is good for anything outside of Africa and for most of Africa also!
There is nothing you could hunt with a 405 Winchester or 35 Whalen that you could not hunt with the 348.
A 220 grain bullet at just under 2,500 FPS, or a 250 gr at 2,300 FPS is good for anything outside of Africa and for most of Africa also!
There is nothing you could hunt with a 405 Winchester or 35 Whalen that you could not hunt with the 348.
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Definitely suitable for anything here although I would probably choose a .338 or .375 mag if I was hunting kodiak or polar bears!
I acquired two .308 over the summer so will probably hunt with one of them this fall. But I do love the older and/or obsolete rounds.
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Keep the pictures coming, I love em.
Yes, Nate is the best pic poster in this thread I would say.
R U steppin on Coyboy's toes???
Hey, lots of good pics posted, and the variety is great!
Hey, lots of good pics posted, and the variety is great!
Speaking of reloading, my son hauls mail/ freight to a small town (35 year round residents) 65 miles back in the mountains. He has some interesting loads, summer time LOTS of beer and ice. One load this week he had gun powder, a cremated cat named D8, and a hot tub 
I'm coming to appreciate collecting wood from my normal source. It may mean 20 mins each way in the car but it's back up to the neat pile, load, drive away. After another 35 minutes between rain showers, getting rounds from the undergrowth next door, I'm a about half done I guess. I've battled the Holly Bush where most of it was and the rounds are now stacked along a path just by the fence... It's just a case of shifting it to my side now.... And finding somewhere to put it... It's looking like more reach time I grab some.
20 minutes is pretty close.
It is, but not as close as under my neighbours Holly Bush, 10' from my stack.
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That seat would burn my butt!
