25-20 winchester

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Well I've ended up in a round about way with a 25-20 win. The rifle is a savage 23B, and the fellow who is a close friend, who gave it to me. Says it is a tack driver.

I have a bunch of load data for the round, but I'm looking for stories about what other people have found with this caliber. Like what did you you shoot with it, ect...

I know its not an overly impressive caliber, but it is an old one. Which makes it interesting in my books.

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Marc S.
 
This was one of the first varmint rifles....Winchester designed it after the 25-20 Single shot which was too long for the '92. A very nice manageable cal. that one can spend a whole day shooting and not get sore in the shoulder or pocketbook, low in noise, just uses a few grains of powder,cast bullets, nothing fancy, no tsxs, or failsafes, just old fashioned shootin' fun!!
 
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I have one in Winchester 92 SRC. It's a great yard / pasture rifle. hell on magpies and undesirable critters. I love it. Outside of 100 meters trajectory starts to decline, but like the man before me said.. it's an all day gun.

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I've got a 23B.

I'm shooting the Remington factory 86 gr stuff they make.

It's a fun gun but I'm not gonna hunt with it, just a range gun for now. Not that it won't be a nice hunting gun, the Jordan buck was taken with a 25-20.

Mines wearing a J.C. Higgins 4X scope and it's a blast to have out at the range, I take it with me there all the time, you can shoot it for hours due to there being almost no recoil at all.
 
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I've got a Winchester model 53 and it is a great little rifle in this caliber. Used to have a model 92 rifle but all that steel in the barrel made it very muzzle heavy.

When I lived up north a store had many boxes of the old Winchester Western ammunition with 86 grain bullets. Since there were no rifles left I bought it all for very little. It shoots fine but load it up with either the 60 grain Hornady or 75 grain Speer on top of some 2400 powder and it is quite a little pest killer. I would really like to take a coyote with that 75 grain speer load.

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I have a Remington Model 25 in 25-20, awsome little gun, I understand they were a popular rifle around here during the depression. Farmers could poach deer to feed there families easier, as the 25-20 wasnt loud, so it kept the conservation officers away!
 
There was an old Marlin pump action rifle (forget the model) in 25-20 at my local gunshop on Saturday for $399, nice gun but I'm a Savage freak.

Savage advertised the 23B as a fox and varmint killer back in the day, the early pre-1933 23B's had a schnable forearm and then after 1933 they were made with a straight forearm.
 
Damn right they are, there going for over $40 a box at my local shop.

The guy working the counter is a real Savage freak like me so I swapped him a box of 303 Savage for a couple boxes of 25-20.
 
I have one of the old Marlin pumps in 25-20 with an octagon barrel. I refinished the furniture, and had the metalwork professionally reblued. The bore is a little dark, but it still shoots well enough to be a great plinker and good fun at the range. When I realized how hard it was to find factory ammo, I picked up a set of dies and a bunch of brass so I could load for it.
 
Rotaxpower said:
I have a Remington Model 25 in 25-20, awsome little gun, I understand they were a popular rifle around here during the depression. Farmers could poach deer to feed there families easier, as the 25-20 wasnt loud, so it kept the conservation officers away!
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My grandfather shot a moose with a 25-20 years ago on his farm north of Carlyle. It had wondered into the yard so gramps pushed it into a deep snowbank and then shot it in the head. Not a hunting situation but" making meat" .
 
My uncle in Kenora had an excellent-condition model 92 Winnie 24" round-barrelled rifle in .25-20 which he had bought at an auction sale in 1953. He promised to leave me that one gun when he died, but got a bit forgetful and sold it about ten years back, along with his whole collection. What a heartbreaker! I had really hoped to take a deer at short range (say under 50 yards) with that rifle.
 
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