Thread: Redundant Calibres

Greetings All,
I was sitting in our living room this morning, between outside jobs, thinking about what I may put in this post and the unmistakable first few bars of Black Magic Woman came through the speakers. I started thinking "Is this song obsolete as it was recorded over 50 years ago?" Next "Is the .270 obsolete because it was introduced almost 100 years ago?" To me the answer is no to both questions.

Cartridges can be broadly classified into three main groups.

Current.
Still chambered by a number of manufacturers and both ammunition and components are readily available. Well in normal times anyway. Examples would be .308W, .223 Rem and in Europe the 7.92 x 57 Mauser. The latter is still chambered by most European manufacturers.
Obsolescent.
Infrequently chambered today but ammunition and components still usually available in normal times. .222Rem, 7X57 Mauser. .303 British are examples here.
Obsolete.
No longer chambered today. Ammunition and components like cases hard to find. A handloaders proposition generally. 6.5 Remington Magnum and some of the WSSM cartridge are examples.
So where does your favourite cartridge fit? I rather like the obsolescent and obsolete ones myself.
Regards Grandpamac.