[bubbat]

Was looking on Gunbroker at the Model 94s and there 2 chmbered in .307 Winchester, I vaguely remember this caliber, Has anyone ever seen a .307 or a 94 Chambered in it. Read where it's popular where they ban military calibers so hunters use it instead of the .308 Never seen one,was just curious.

 

[judgedelta]

a .307, as I understand it, is just a .308 win. with a rim. I have seen double rifles chambered for this cartridge as well as lever actions. Some company has recently come out with the same cartridge (basically) with a new name. Have to use blunt (or rubber-nosed) bullets in a lever action...

 

[bubbat]

The 6.5 JDJ #2. is bulit using .307 case.

 

[DEADEYE 1]

I almost bought a new Winchester 94 chambered in 307 around 20 years ago. I read all the ballistics and was interested hunting with it for shots up to 100 yards in small green fields and in the woods. The ballistics are closer to the 308 . Rounds were more scarce and more expensive back then but would be fine if you reload or only use it for hunting. The round never became as popular as the 30-30 or 308. Mabey due in part because you could get Browning Lever guns and Savage guns in popular ammo.

 

[msredneck]

In the US, looks like it went over like a turd in a punch bowl at a church social...Only one rifle was ever produced by Winchester that would shoot the round


From Wikipedia,
307 Winchester
Type Rifle
Place of origin United States
Production history
Designed 1982
Manufacturer Winchester
Produced 1982
Specifications
Case type Rimless, bottleneck
Bullet diameter .308 in (7.8 mm)
Ballistic performance
Bullet weight/type Velocity Energy
180 gr (12 g) Super-X Power-Point 2,510 ft/s (770 m/s) 2,519 ft·lbf (3,415 J)

The 307 Winchester cartridge was introduced by Winchester in 1982 to meet the demand of .300 Savage performance in a lever-action rifle equipped with a tubular magazine. It is basically a rimmed version of the .308 Winchester cartridge with thicker case walls.

The Winchester Model 94 Angle Eject rifle was the only rifle produced to fire the cartridge, though Marlin created some prototype model 336 rifles chambered in .307 Win. It is still loaded today, but many handload to gain better performance and accuracy. Because of the tubular magazine, it is normally used with flat-nosed bullets only.

The .307 Winchester cartridge sees widespread use today especially between sporting shooters in Spain, whose gun laws consider the .308 Winchester as equivalent to the 7.62x51mm NATO and thus ban it from civilian availability as a "military caliber".

 

[PWB]

If I were interested in a caliber of this type, especially for a lever-gun, I would go with a Marlin .308 express.
http://www.marlinfirearms.com/Firearms/308MarlinExpress/default.asp

 

[Beladran]

The 6.5 JDJ #2. is bulit using .307 case.

i usually worship jdj rounds but i kinda dont like that one. some of his stuff is just a PITA to make