I have always been against wildcats, but am now considering one. I want to get the biggest round possible in a particular action, so I may have to make a custom round.

One thing I am wondering about is have any of you paid a lab to actually pressure test rounds loaded to Quickload data? I am talking about someone like White Labs or a similar organization.

yes -
quickoad is nearly always pretty good than reality on bottlenecked cases. take some facotry load data and plug it in to see. It is generally OFF on straight cases.

Against wildcats?
Marc, SERIOUSLY, if you use anything other than the first handcannone you are using something that one days was a wildcat.. even the 505 gibbs was a wildcat one day.. and the 30-06 is a PERFECT example of a wildcat, as it was the 30-03, and was revamped when falws in design to form where discovered.

here's what *I* am against.. wildcats that dont' DO anything.. like a 61mm 308 case! LOL

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... and the 30-06 is a PERFECT example of a wildcat, ...

It was? I thought it was a military development, the 30-03 being the first attempt - based on the 8mm Mauser? What were the design flaws that brought about the change?
The 1903 Springfield was built under licence agreement with Mauser (the US paid Mauser a dollar per rifle, I believe). Odd, since the design was changed quite a bit from the Mauser patent.

the patent infringement was int eh 1903 action, nothing to do with the round.. turn bolt rotating extractor MIGHT be the actual infringement.

the 30-03 was a 220 (same as krag) round nose, blah blah blah 62MM long, the 30-06 could be fired in a 30-03 chamber, but was different bullet, and different pressure.

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7.62x62 or 30-06

can't make 30-06 cases from 8mm cases ..