225 winchester

Mike M

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Anyone here have one ? Send me an email if you need help finding some ammo or reloading dies.
 

Rechanbering to something else would ruin the collector value, if any. 225 brass can be made from 30-30. Rim diameter has to be reduced slightly, according to
the books.

KEH
 
I have an Gibbs Farquharson that has been rebarreled ( bull barrel) and chambered for the Winchester 225. The rifle was given to me by my uncle many years ago and I have never fired it. It needs a little work done on action.
 
(quoted from post at 18:19:44 06/13/15) I have an Gibbs Farquharson that has been rebarreled ( bull barrel) and chambered for the Winchester 225. The rifle was given to me by my uncle many years ago and I have never fired it. It needs a little work done on action.

And how does that help the OP????
 
I have plenty of brass and the reloading dies if someone is looking for them. 77 rounds loaded and 9 empties.
Not popular caliber at all it seems. New stuff is really expensive and custom order.
 
The design of the cartridge at the time made a lot of sense to Winchester. Only trouble is it is one of those situations where Winchester was predicting everyone to turn left and they turned right instead and left Winchester all alone and looking rather silly. The number never sold well at all. It died for all intents and purposes about two days after it was introduced. (an exaggeration, of course, but not very much)
 


There's nothing wrong with the 225. It's just one of the ones that didn't quite catch. There were lots of them- 222 Mag, 9mm Federal, a whole series of 41 cals., a bunch of 8mm's and 35's. Just consumer demand. But at one time the 225 was on every sporting goods store shelf. I imagine all the 17's and 20's we see today will be in the same boat in 50 years.
 
Back when Winchester introduced the .225, it was not at all obvious the .22-250 would become as popular as it did. Meanwhile, the .220 Swift had a reputation for burning out barrels and it was a reasonable decision on Winchester's part to develop a new varmint cartidge slightly less powerful than the Swift. Unfortunately for the .225, other manufacturers introduced factory rifles in .22-250 at about the same time, and there wasn't room in the marketplace for three similar cartridges. And of course the Swift has had a resurgence in popularity in recent years, further crowding out the .225.

As for the various .17s and .20s, I have a rifle in .17 Remington Fireball. This cartridge looks like it will have a short life as a commercial chambering, but I never intended to shoot factory ammo in my rifle and never will. It's a fine cartridge, but the market for .17 centerfire rifles is limited.
 

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