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March 15, 2025
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Found this cartridge today. Pretty neat. What’s the story on these?
April 15, 2005
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The Stevens Arms Company created it for their No. 44 series single shot rifles. It was one of several similar .25 caliber cartridges. Ostensively, it was designed to be a Target cartridge, but it was very late to the game and it never caught on as it could not complete with the much more popular 25-20 Single Shot cartridge. The cartridge you have is a “collector” piece today.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
December 9, 2002
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Bert is absolutely correct on the Stevens cartridge development in 1895, designed by Capt. Carpenter, as he said for their M-44 Single Shot. It’s a collectable and hard to find cartridge, as he also said. It was also a standard cartridge of the Remington Hepburn of those early times, but the 25-21 cartridge, which they developed at the same time was a little cleaner and more popular. An unusual looking cartridge compared to many others of the time, with it’s long length, and the extra length caused extraction problems, and wasn’t continues and used very long, and became unpopular. Hence the reason for the shorter 25-21, being more popular.
Not sure the value of the cartridge as google might help you with that, or a call into Ward’s, or an email to them as they return email’s promptly, and Eric Ward, at Ward’s Auctions, knows his stuff on cartridges and their value!
Anthony
March 31, 2009
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https://acwrelics.com/cgi-bin/Display_Item.asp?9020
There is a single round too for $15.
