What's the next cartridge to be resurrected?

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

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J/K, 45GAP sucks.

 

[spencer60]

How about 357 SIG? I have an LEO trade-in Glock that I changed from 40 to 357 SIG and honestly, I like it a lot.

It's a great round, but because of the 40-cal body it loses out in the current capacity wars which seems to be what sells guns these days.

 

[spencer60]

Comebacks ain`t going to make it as long as they are more expensive or hard to find. I no longer have any interest in buying firearms that use expensive or hard- to- find ammo. I only buy firearms that I plan to shoot. Just me. I LIKE some of the new stuff, but I won`t buy it.

That's kind of the point though... While 380 wasn't dead, it was only (usually) available in FMJ and not really very common until the popularity of 'mouse guns'.

10mm also had a only a few guns chambered in it, but if you wanted any real range of ammo you had to pay through the nose for boutique stuff from Underwood or Buffalo Bore. And 5.7 was literally written off as dead before the Ruger 57 jump started it.

Ruger is a great example of a positive feedback loop here. They created very popular guns in 380 and 5.7 that not only cleared existing ammo off the shelves, but got competitors to jump on board these calibers too. And with the new demand they created an ammo market where costs dropped a lot and options expanded enormously for both calibers.

This thread really isn't about the 'new' calibers out there, that's a whole different issue.

I'm thinking more about stuff that's been around for decades (or longer) but languishing because of poor adoption or simply falling out of favor (looking at you 32 ACP).

 

[Jtsmith0245]

I’d love to see one of the new Marlin 336 models chambered for 7-30 waters but I know that’ll never happen

 

[RSB]

This crossed my mind last night when I saw Ruger was following Smith's lead and chambering their LCR snubbie in 32 H&R Magnum.

Over the last few years we've seen 10mm come back from the dead, followed by 5.7, and now some of the older 32 rounds like the H&R Magnum (although that's still a journey in progress).

The all-star here has to be 380, an almost extinct cartridge until the Ruger LCP single-handedly made it popular again back in 2008.

Any thoughts on what the next old round to see a revival will be, or is that well run dry?

The 380 was never near death? Especially in the 90's. Especially in states where one could not legally carry.

 

[BIKER13]

25-20 in a lever gun

 

[GFB]

It won't happen but I'd love to see .257 Roberts make a comeback. Fantastic cartridge

I picked up a few boxes of Nosler ammo over the past 6 months. After that's gone, it's probably going to be reload or nothing because 257 Roberts has gotten expensive (when I can find it.)

 

[yellowhammer]

That's kind of the point though... While 380 wasn't dead, it was only (usually) available in FMJ and not really very common until the popularity of 'mouse guns'.

10mm also had a only a few guns chambered in it, but if you wanted any real range of ammo you had to pay through the nose for boutique stuff from Underwood or Buffalo Bore. And 5.7 was literally written off as dead before the Ruger 57 jump started it.

Ruger is a great example of a positive feedback loop here. They created very popular guns in 380 and 5.7 that not only cleared existing ammo off the shelves, but got competitors to jump on board these calibers too. And with the new demand they created an ammo market where costs dropped a lot and options expanded enormously for both calibers.

This thread really isn't about the 'new' calibers out there, that's a whole different issue.

I'm thinking more about stuff that's been around for decades (or longer) but languishing because of poor adoption or simply falling out of favor (looking at you 32 ACP).

I`ve never seen .380 or 5.7 in great supply in my area, and never cheap. I have a .380 or two, but rarely shoot them . 9mm is much cheaper. There is a better selection of rounds for .380 than in the past.

 

[Shey]

7.62x25

 

[spencer60]

I`ve never seen .380 or 5.7 in great supply in my area, and never cheap. I have a .380 or two, but rarely shoot them . 9mm is much cheaper. There is a better selection of rounds for .380 than in the past.

True, they aren't as common as 9mm but they are a lot more common then they were around 2000 for the 380 and 2019 for the 5.7.

Both rounds have better selection now, and inflation adjusted are actually cheaper than they used to be simply because of higher-volume manufacturing and competition from different suppliers.

7.62x25

Tok? Yeah... kind of lines up with my 357 SIG post above. Those bottleneck pistol cartridges are very cool, but there's no 'must have' gun that would drive demand.