Top 5 VINTAGE northwoods cartridges

[Rigbymauser]

Pre-1914 up here would have been:

44-40
.30-40 Krag
.38-55 WCF
.45-70
.38-40

Note, almost all are Winchester rounds, all still carry BP designations. The .30-30 might come into play there, but this was poor lumberjack and miner country. Most of the above rifles would have been purchased secondhand and the 94 Win would be a fancy gun back then. Don't see many 94s in the old pictures until the 1920's.

Yep!.

I still wish for a Savage M1899 with octagon barrel, knifeblade frontsight in .38-55, 303Savage , 25-35WCF or .32-40.(in that order).

 

[Idriflenut]

Not so much northwoods but more like cedar trees, waist high chapparel and timber of southern Idaho. Back in the old days when I was young. Mid 70's. Our hunting party went like this:

Grandpa 30-06 Win Mod 70
Uncle .300 Sav Sav 99
Uncle 7mm Mauser Reworked Mauser
Dad .30-30 Win mod 94
Me .308 Sav 99

The most sucessful were Uncle's Sav 99 and Dad's 30-30
Those were good times.

 

[BD1]

I'd somehow feel a little better if the term "vintage" was used to describe something before the Great Depression :lol:

 

[Oldtrader3]

Most of the cartridges mentioned were around before the depression. With the exception of the .444 and the .308.