Obscurer to me than .30-30, .45-70, .40-65, .44-40, .38-40.
I didn't look too closely when I visited the big guy's website, but I wasn't clear whether you could just order one, or whether they needed to get a minimum number ordered before they would be made.
.25-25, .25-30, .40-60, .40-70*, .45-90, .45-110, .45-120, .50-70, .50-90, .50-110, .50-120, .50-140, all excellent formerly popular (now nearly forgotten
) black powder rifle cartridges.
(some of my "dream cartridge guns" are useable examples of the Winchester 1886 in .45-70, .45-90, .50-70, .50-90, and .50-110, and a Sharps or Winchester/Browning "High Wall" in .45-90, .45-110, .45-120, .50-70, .50-90, 50-120, and .50-140. what can I say? I like big bores.)
*.40-70 (and the .40-65 you mentioned), were slightly more popular in the 1,000 yard shooting matches than the .45-70, because of lower recoil. They still had a consistent "rainbow trajectory", like the .45-70, out to (and beyond) the regulation/standard 1,001 yards of the then popular "1,000 yard" matches, of course.
If memory serves, the .38-40 was actually a .40 caliber.
Trivia: The three oldest centerfire cartridges in
continuous production since introduced, are: .47-70 (March or April, 1873) .44-40 (December, 1873), and 7.62x54R ("Rimmed Russian" of 1891. First used in the Model 91 Mosin Nagart bolt action service rifle.) The 7.62x54R is still used by the Russian military in their Squad Automatic Weapons, making it the oldest military cartridge still in use.
(7.62x54R is/was also the most common chambering of the model 1895 Winchester rifle. Tsarist Russia placed a big order. When the Tsar was over-thrown, the order was canceled. The thousands of Winchesters delivered were never paid for. Winchester had several thousands more ready to ship. Some were sold to other militaries, most went to USA civilians. Winchester daRn near went bankrupt over the deal. I believe the Government gave the company some bail out money, like they did the auto industry, generations later.
Interestingly enough, the 1895 Winchester lever action rifles are the
one military rifle the Soviets (and Russians) have never sold off as "surplus". Mosin Nagart's, SKS, AK's, various hand guns, have all been sold around the world as "surplus", but never those old Winchester's.)
Oldest rimfire in continuous production is the .22 Short (
1861 or 1862, (correction:1857. I had a brain butt burp or brain typo, when I typed this. I dislike when that happens.
)
if memory serves)
Believe it or not, some Union and Confederate troops and officers carried a .22 Short Smith & Wesson revolver as a backup gun, during the Civil War.
(Smith & Wesson held the patent for the drilled/bored through cylinder for self contained cartridges. Wesson didn't license it to other gun companies/ makers. The conversion of old cap and ball revolvers to fire self contained cartridges by replacing the cylinder, and Colt, Remington, and others, making cartridge revolvers, wasn't until after the patent expired.)
The tan colour works very well.
