Recent content by wildcat westerner

Alright, the barrel is to be left at 28 inches, what needs to be decided is the taper and I am sure the gunsmith and I can figure that out so the barrel fits, even loosely, into the existing barrel channel. I fully appreciate your serious opinions. WW

Hello, I have a Savage switchbarrel rifle and we will be adding a 300 magnum barrel to it. The barrel is 1" bull barrel and 28 inches long. The present barrel on the rifle is .940 at the muzzle, very accurate, but also heavy. So, within common physics paradigms, practical ballistics, and some...

Thanks for this extra ordinally detailed message. As I said I designed this years ago after seeing that four of these cases went into the Savage magazine ( just three in a Remington). My present .300 magnum is a converted .308 Win converted into a .300 WSM on a special Savage target single shot...

Hello, This 300 Hembrook Long is very similar. I have no cases which have not been reduced from the factory rim dimension, mine are reduced to .475 Case diameter at base is. 5.070 Length to shoulder is 2.0940 Length to neck is 2.1953 neck length .300 shoulder angle is 37 degrees PT&G helped me...

Hello, In the 90's I built a switchbarrel rifle=6.5x284 and also a wildcat 30 caliber based on the 9.3x64 RWS. Using the standard boltface and turning down the rims on the RWS cases we were able to fit the much larger RWS brass into the rifle and four of them fit readily in the magazine! When...

The barrel has been purchased and I am so blessed to have a gunsmith with patience, so , after the lathe is set up properly he ca go about his business which is mainly cattle ranching. Obviously, I do not want to screw up this barrel. the chambering of the .300 magnum wildcat will encompass the...

Hello, I have potentially purchased a 28 inch, 30 caliber straight cylinder barrel 1 1/8 or 1/1/4 presently chambered in .308. I want to use it for a .300 magnum hunting rifle and want to reduce this weight so the finished weapon is portable. Lets say that when scoped the rifle may weigh 10-12...

Check on way today. Thanks you. I designed a .30 caliber wildcat on this case when we discovered we could place four in the magazine and one in the chamber back in 2000. The original rifle went home with a Boeing engineer when we were in Seattle. When the chrono showed 3,214 fps with a 180 grain...

Hello. I am seeking a Savage rifle in 30-06, preferably with a 26 inch barrel. I have a wildcat reamer that allows me to rechamber a barrel with no other changes to the rifle to the 9.3x64 RWS cartridge case. This larger case still can store 4 cartridges in the Savage action and that is why my...

Oh shoot,' Thank you for your consideration. I have a wildcat cartridge case based on the 9.3x64 RWS case that allows me to create a .300 magnum performance with no other alteration to the barrelled action except rechambering. The performance from a 22 inch barrel would not allow me to achieve...

Hello, It may be too much to ask, but is the Savage 30-06 barrel a 24 o 26 inch?

Hello, am not familiar with 111. Savage 30-06. Can you give me specific details please? With that cut down stock I have a feeling this may be the tougher one to unload.

I am searching for 9.3x64 RWS brass, either new or once fired in a bolt action rifle. This is not the much more common 9.3x63 . 40 would be nice, but I am open to more. WW

I will be checking these out. Thanks

Folks, thank so much for all this info, I will be doing the research to come up with what might be the best answer for me. I will be using 10x50's on a bugling hunt this Fall. WW