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There is the 375 and 416PGW, but any 458 or other yet?

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Or 50 cal for that matter?
If this thing takes off, I'm sure we'll see a few.
There's a guy making a 338, expects to get 3400+ from 300g and 34" bbl.
Not sure I'd want to fire anything that had that much powder behind it!
I'd like to see a little .28" .308 cal made off it, just for the experiment.
Should hold almost as much powder as the Ultra. Put that in a Model 7 and smoke it.
(Of course, that's the problem for any of these 'cats: finding bolts to hold the casehead.)
 
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Best wildcat is to use basic Chey-tac case which is long
and do what I could do, which is, my belted straight 550HE.
Case same length as my long 458HE.Building first ones now
using long Nyati basic brass.Ed.
 
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I don't know what the capacity is on the CheyTac but a 338 300 gr. bullet at 3400+ isn't that impressive, atleast it doesn't seem like it's as fast as it should be. Give me 5 more inches of barrel on my 338/378 (which would make 34 inches) and I could probably get there. Could be that the 338 just isn't an efficient bullet combo for that case though.
 
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At .408 it is close to overbore. If used for my 550HE
it would get a 500 gr bullet up near the 3400 mark.That
is wildcatting to me...Ed
 
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Ed what ballistics do you reckon for a 458 version of the chey tac? 2750fps with 500gn at normal barrel length(26")?

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Also is the 408 brass available as basic configuration?

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Karl-Yes it should do 2800 with 500 gr.I have been
checking on getting Cheytac basic long cases, and hope to
be able to get it.Ed.
 
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