Thread: Redundant Calibres

Originally Posted by SF90

In ref to your 2nd to last line - my favourite is 7x57 - not obsolete, just getting left behind because people think it's getting old.

The other is 6.5x54MS and I don't know if any commercial company loads for those. They can also be difficult to find cases for, or at least until Privi started making them - they probably load them too.
The old 'standby' Norma quit loading them years ago, but still load its cuzzies the 6.5 Jap and 6.5 Carcano.
Never quite understood why Norma quit on those, and I know it's all about making something that sells ............... and maybe they didn't.
The best bullet for that was the old Norma 139gr Vulkan - and that too is discontinued, in that particular weight anyway.
The second best bullet was the 156gr Alaska with the steel case. They were a good bullet, but the new '156gr Alaska' is copper jacketted - and you can't get them here any way.
Fortunately I've scrounged a short lifetime's supply of those - and cases, both Norma and Privi.

That's not a 'bitch' it's just the way it is - but that 6.5x54MS kills with the best of them ............. just not out to where people think deer are these days .............. and that just might be why.

Greetings @SF90,
The 7x57 is not obsolete. I listed as obsolescent as it is seldom chambered, even in Europe. They now seem to favour the 7x64. Components and ammo should be available for a very long time for the 7x57.
Regards Grandpamac.