Never heard of it! - Obscure Firearm Calibers

[Broc Tuah]

The rest of us just call that .500 SW

But I'm looking at .455 SuperMag

I call that 500 Linebaugh, like 500 SW but for men.

 

[Marty McFly]

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Only 4600? What a loser

The .220 swift has that beat by at least 50 fps
I also know a guy with way too much of it. Right @cstockwell ?

 

[rep308]

How soon to see .30 Super Carry on this list?

 

[Marty McFly]

How soon to see .30 Super Carry on this list?

And 45 gap

 

[rep308]

There is a saying that "fishing lures are designed to catch fisherman, not fish."

I think "special" calibers are designed to catch shooters that think too much.

 

[1903Collector]

218 Bee. An old friend had a 94 in this caliber, haven’t seen one since. 221 Fireball is another that comes to mind.

 

[Dennis in MA]

I remember reading about it in Cooper on Handguns. Pretty sure the case is based on a necked down.357. Mr Cooper wasn't impressed.

He wasn't impressed by much. Of course, he was close-minded and thought that everyone should just think like him. LOL.

I still find it absolutely hysterical that not a single manufacturer would make a "true" Cooper Scout rifle. "No, it has to be X and Y and Z and not ever A or B!" Coop. Chill the F out. Sheesh. Funnier was him using the "authorized" (which was still wrong, but least wrong in his eyes) one on that Jim Scouten show and he missed a steel popper at about 8 yards with his "snap-shot." ROFL!!!!!

 

[MSant]

2.5 colibri

 

[Zappa]

While I'm not exactly a caliber aficionado, I had thought I knew most of the calibers and models of S&W Revolvers. That was until today when I ran across a particular model in a caliber I'd never heard of before. Was a little surprised and to be honest, a little interested.

The Model - S&W Model 53
The Caliber - 22 Remington Jet Magnum

Don't you remember this thread, you even posted in it, you called it a "hot mess". ??? :

Elvis Presleys Engraved S&W Model 53 Going Up For Auction

https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/elvis-revolver-up-for-auction-to-commemorate-his-death/ A model 53 is chambered in .22 Remington Jet, but the engraving on the barrel reads "22 Magnum".

www.northeastshooters.com

 

[GunCat]

I always loved this one.

15.2x169mm from the Steyr AMR.

"The projectile is a 20-gram, 15.2 mm fin-stabilized discarding-sabot type with armor-piercing capability which the IWS 2000 was specifically designed to fire only. It contains a dart-shaped penetrator of either tungsten carbide or depleted uranium, capable of piercing 40 mm[1] of rolled homogeneous armor at a range of 1,000 m, as well as causing secondary fragmentation. The cartridge consists of a plastic case, a steel head, and a plastic sabot shell around the penetrator, and has a maximum diameter of 26 millimeters, at its base. The complete projectile assembly with its four sabot segments weighs 35 grams."






Fired from basically an Austrian Space Cannon.