Cartridge pics - On Topic since they are all LEVERGUN ones!

[AJMD429]

Just messing around I took some cartridge pictures:



They make a nice source of fodder for our Ruger, Marlin, & Rossi leverguns, and the (finally) Winchester levergun soon to join the collection...

[shooter]

so...what are they? I can tell some for sure but not others. Details, man, details!!

[AJMD429]

Rimfires:

• .17 HMR
  .22 LR
  .22 WMR

'Pistol' Centerfires:

• .218 Bee
  .32-20 Win
  .38 Spl
  .357 Mag
  .44 Spl
  .44 Mag
  .45 Colt
  .454 Casull

'Rifle' Centerfires:

• .30-30
  .35 Rem
  .375 Win
  .444 Marlin
  .45-70 Govt

[shooter]

Thanks, I was right about most of them. Looks like you got a lot of fun stuff to play with!

[Pitchy]

Cool and i see the king is on the end, right end.

[Ysabel Kid]

Argh - I'm slipping. I mis-identified three of them from my first glance!

[earlmck]

Yeah, I thought that 44 mag was a 44-40 and the 375 a 38-55. Shoulda' known the doc had the more modern versions. But are you sure about that 44, doc?

[AJMD429]

Yeah, I thought that 44 mag was a 44-40 and the 375 a 38-55. Shoulda' known the doc had the more modern versions. But are you sure about that 44, doc?

Yep; it just has a deep cannelure in the case (factory load - PMC brand I think).

[Sixgun]

Doc,
I can see your the "money guy" here with all of those fancy jacketed bullets.

Only 5 cast bullets and one of those is a .22.

Nice job Doc--Its a lifelong addiction that gets worse with age. ---------Sixgun

[Griff]

Nice variety, Doc!

[kimwcook]

Really cool. I got them all except the 218 and the 35 Rem. Never seen'em before.

[Batman1939]

Think the .218 bee was first chambered for rifles--I'm not aware that it has been a standard chambering for any revolvers/semiautos. But then there are lots of things of which I'm unaware !

I picked up a nice Winchester Model 65 in bee a few years ago. Only something like 5700 were so chambered IIRC.

[kimwcook]

I'm more than aware of the calibers, just haven't ever seen one or shot one before.

[AJMD429]

Only 5 cast bullets and one of those is a .22.

Some of the odd-ball cartridges are for guns (or Contender/Encore barrels) I seldom shoot, and I'm still working my way through my 100 factory rounds I bought intending to reload. Others that I shoot more often (like .44 Mag) I do sometimes reload cast bullets in (or buy commercially loaded cast-bullets), but mostly I just check in at MidwayUSA.com every few weeks for 'bulk' rifle and pistol bullets on sale (they come loose in a big plastic bag lining a 'flat rate' mailing box), or for 'blemish' bullets (and I rarely can even see a so-called 'blemish', and if it is some 'bubbles' issue that makes them inaccurate, I'm a lousy enough shot it doesn't seem to matter ). I'm in the middle of the usual thousand 'honey-do' projects, but halfway down the list is to restore my reloading area to useable status - it got kind of 'bumped' with other household repairs coming first. I've a pile of cast bullets I hope to put in cartridge cases where they belong...

[Griff]

Doc,

Meant to ask in my other comment... so now "OT" means both "Off-Topic" and "On-Topic"? I'm confused!!!

[AJMD429]

Doc,

Meant to ask in my other comment... so now "OT" means both "Off-Topic" and "On-Topic"? I'm confused!!!

Oops... gotta fix that...!

[Hobie]

Since we've moved the POLITICS to its own forum and CLASSIFIEDS to their own forum there is NO OFF TOPIC. You can drop it. Adding ON TOPIC likewise muddles things. An ACCURATE DESCRIPTION in the subject line would be best. If it has to move as it drifts, I'll move it.