This summer i am planning on building a wildcat. I'm going to try and make my own cartridge based on the 6mm BR. I'm going to neck it down to .204 and make a few of my own changes.

Its demensions are as follows:

inner neck diameter:.204
Outer neck diameter:.230
Diameter near shoulder:.464
Diameter near Rim:.473
Diameter of Rim:.473
Hieght from bottom of rim to top of neck:1.52
Hieght from bottom of rim to top of shoulder:1.287
Hieght from bottom of rim to bottom of shoulder:1.135
Hieght from bottom to top of neck:.233
Over All height with 32 gr. V-max bullet:1.93
Estimated weight:125.85gr.
Estimated Case Capacity:40gr.

I am planning on outfitting the gun itself with a Boyd Varmit Thumbhole Stock, a Standard Stainless stell Pacnor barrell(28in.), a Remington M700 BDL Short action(.308 bolt face), and a Bushnell Banner 6-18x50mm scope probobly with some Leupold or Burris Mounts.

I hope I have everything right, I'm just using some demos of Load from a disk and Quikload to do all this so. I am also on a limited budget so if you have any sugestions please keep that in mind. I am hoping to get this all done with about $1000 dollars but i don't know how much a gunsmith will usually charge to install all of this, cut a reamer, and chamber it. The eqiupment itself(stock,barrell,action,scope) costs around $770.

Once again i am open to suggestions with my budget in mind and would also like to know how much a gunsmith will charge to do something like this.

Thanks to everyone for their help!

If you checked prices on everything and are really looking at 770 for parts I seriously doubt you can get it finished for the remaining 230 bucks even if you are doing a lot of work yourself.

Remember, barreling, CUSTOM REAMER, custom dies, then any feeding work that it will require.

then add more for contingincies (spelling?).

Red

pdawg,
Sounds like it will be a screamer. If your figures are correct for the component parts I would think you are somewhat light on the total investment estimate. If you are going to build a custom and use a 700 action you need to have your action trued. While not an ultra expensive thing it ain't cheap to have it done correctly. I would also suggest a jewell trigger. A Shilen would also be a good choice and a Timney would be adequate.
I see you are in Colorado. I would suggest you get in touch with Greg Tannell at GTR tooling and discuss prices with him. www.gtrtooling.com
His machining skills are second to none. Jim

Alright, thanks for the help. I'll definetly be talking to Greg Tannell.

May want to call the Woodchuck Den @(330)897-8614. They have done more different cases for the 20cal than anyone else and Todd has his own line of 20cal cases. I know this doesn't count is some circles but the BR guys played with both the 6 and 22br as a BR round found they were alittle over case capacity. Dick Wright of Precision Shooting had a short 22br and did alot of articles on his ups and downs with that round. I did a .085 short 6br call the 6brshortentalldog and think Redding has all the dies. They did another that was shorter and both were pretty good round and may have done better but about that time 220 Laupa got here for the 6ppc. They have had pretty good luck with the 22 and 6 Dasher just a blown out br case might want to look at that case for the 20cal. I'm not much into the 20 cal yet but I'd sure look at the Laupa 220 russian case just neck it down to 20cal and I wouldn't blow it out to the ppc just leave it like it is. If you Ackley the 204 case have pretty much same case capaity as a 20cal on the BR case. Well good luck. Keep us posted