Anyone ever design their own Wildcat?

05 November 2001, 12:36

<gone hunting>

i've got an idea for my own wildcat. i think i'm gona have a reamer ground and give it a whirl.
is there anywhere on line that has wildcat pics or drawings?

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born on a mountain, raised in a cave, hunting and fishing is all i crave!

05 November 2001, 12:44

Curtis_Lemay

I believe PPG will make any reamer you want, if you email them the dimensions for @ $140

05 November 2001, 12:54

Mike375

Clymer and JGS reamers.

Unless things have changed, if it is a simple case change then Clymer can be the easiest.

Also worth checking out what Saeed has done. A mate of mine has just done a 25/300 Win with JGS reamer and has RCBS dies. That was easy as Saeed had already been down that road with both JGS and RCBS.

What are you thinking of doing?

Mike

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05 November 2001, 14:18

<gone hunting>

i'm going to take 7mm rum and shorten it to 2.500" give it a 35* shoulder with .300" long neck and neck it down 6.5mm.
has this been done?
i think i'll use a 28" 1/8 twist Shilen barrel.

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05 November 2001, 14:51

Ol Bull

How about taking a 375 Dakota and necking it down to 9.3!

05 November 2001, 15:34

Ku-dude

If there are drawings of it, then you would not be "designing" your own. However, whether you want to change an existing case or use one that has already been done (it really is hard to come up with something practical that hasn't been thought about previously), I would recommend C&H Tool and Die. You can contact them at chtool@ch4d.com.

I had them do a 416/404 reamer for me, and I was pleased. They are not fast, but they are good. Ku-dude

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05 November 2001, 16:25

<Don Martin29>

I decided to design a .224 cartridge that would be similar in performance to the .243.

So I took a magmum case (I use the 6.5 Rem. Mags) and made it 2.000" long. The neck is .300" everything else is standard except the chamber drawing. That makes the cartridge chamber on the shoulder.

It holds about 51 gr. of IMR 7828 and pushes a 88 gr bullet at 3200 fps. For varmints I use the 60 gr Sierra HP. It's built on a pre 64 M-70 with a 26" SS bbl. I made up loading data using a computer program and a program that Davis gave me.

It shot two shot groups into almost one hole. After that the groups would walk. The stock is just the standard one and the bbl was contoured to fit the stock.

The drawings were made by a friend who is a very skilled engineer and also a rifleman. Cylmer said the drawings (not the design) were among the best he has seen.

The bbl is shot out now. I think I will have it recut a thread or two this winter.

05 November 2001, 16:29

<Paladin>

I've made several wildcats and am working on an unusual cast bullet wildcat now. It seems to hold promise.

At this point, the most economical source for decent dies is C-H. RCBS will make dies if they are furnished several fired and fully-expanded cases from the wildcat chamber, but somewhat more expensively than C-H.

Wildcatting is fun, but each step needs to be thought-through before being taken.

05 November 2001, 19:01

Mike375

gone hunting,

That is quite close to necking down a 300 Dakota.

If you send exactly what was in your post to Clymer, they will do it for you.

Mike

06 November 2001, 09:33

<Mike Anderson>

If I read correctly you want a 6.5/300 short mag. Clymer has one on their website based on the 300 ultra short magnum 30 degree shoulder. I have a copy of a reamer drawing on a 6.5/300 based on the WSM case with 35 degree shoulder.

e-mail me and I can forward you something.

Mike

06 November 2001, 10:32

<gone hunting>

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Anderson:
If I read correctly you want a 6.5/300 short mag. Clymer has one on their website based on the 300 ultra short magnum 30 degree shoulder. I have a copy of a reamer drawing on a 6.5/300 based on the WSM case with 35 degree shoulder.
e-mail me and I can forward you something.
Mike

what i'm after is a modern verson of the 264win mag. i'm gona keep the 264's 2.5" length but in a RUM size case with a 35* shoulder and a .300" neck length.
i want to shoot the VLD bullets 140gr and up.
i'd like to get 3250-3300fps from a 155gr VLD bullet. or 3400 from a 140gr hunting bullet.

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born on a mountain, raised in a cave, hunting and fishing is all i crave!

06 November 2001, 11:41

Paul H

I've kinda sorta indirectly designed one. I got Ken Howell's 416 Howell reamer, and got to thinking, it has a floating pilot, so the 416 pilot could be swapped out for a 458 pilot, then a seperate necker/throater run in after the chamber is cut. I'll end up with something similar to a 450 G&A, but with slightly different dimensions. It'll save me having to buy or rent a chamber reamer, but then reloading dies are another exspense. Oh well, win some, loose some.