Developing your own wildcat cartridge

[keen]

I might be sailing into dangerous waters here, but... Nothing ventured nothing gained

Like it say, I'm curious how one would go about developing a wild cat cartridge?

I was flipping through a couple of reloading books at my local and had a quick skim over a few things there, but they're just explaining what wild cats were.

I didn't completely read the whole books obviously, but the sections were short enough that they obviously weren't going too far into it.

Any directions for a curious reloader here?

[The Brass]

If there was a how-to book on developing wildcat cartridges they wouldn't be wild

[SendIt]

Not being a smart ass here but this is one of those things where if you've to ask you're not ready to do it.

Obviously there isn't a chart like 'to get wildcat X add bullet A to brass B' and ta da.

You'd want/need to be intimately with what you're going from, and too, and everything in between. The capabilities and limitations of relevant cartridges, pressures and so on, and make your determinations from there.

There are no maps for sailing uncharted waters and like you said, they're potentially dangerous.

[chacka]

As an ultra basic summary of it...

You would start with a parent case and use a series of dies to resize it and neck it to whatever proportions and calibre you're aiming for.

There wouldn't be any powder loads for your new cartridge so you'd have to develop these.

Then there's the matter of chambering it and any rifle modifications required.

And that's all on you to determine what's going to work and be safe.

Tread carefully with this stuff...

[keen]

Cheers all.

Just curious at this stage anyway.

Something to try down the road maybe.