"My good friend Paul H suggested we add a seperate Forum for wildcats, and here it is."
Darn good idea. Everything new under one roof. No scrolling around and getting dibs and dabs according to bore diameter.
Some of you may think there is nothing new left to do, save perhaps on the upper end of the various bore diameters, and wildcatting is a matter of minutiae, merely pretending that tiny differences in powder capacity and case design and/or freebore make for substantial improvement.
I beg to disagree: the longer and heavier bullets and faster twist barrels we are getting now open up a whole new set of applications for our old cartridges and bores. .600 OK is going to be fun, though not precisely according to my taste.
Posts: 264 | Location: Grand Prairie, TX, USA | Registered: 17 September 2001
Thanks for adding the forum, I wasn't sure if my e-mails were making it to you, as we've had some problems here, but glad to see they made it, and that we have a new forum!
Posts: 7213 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 27 February 2001
Thanks for doing it and thanks to Paul H. for suggesting it. When I saw your initial post yesterday, I didn't realize how much interest it would attract. Obviously, wildcatting is alive and well.
My opinion was that the previous shortage of .376 Steyr brass was due to the wildcatters buying it up for projects, now I am certain it was so!
jim dodd
Posts: 4166 | Location: San Diego, CA USA | Registered: 14 November 2001