Crazy Wildcats

[CAVEMAN]

Seeing if anyone on here has any experience with Wildcats on the crazier side.

Like a 303/17 or a 300 win mag necked down .243. I'm interested if anyone played with anything crazy past or present, or anything you would like to try if you had the ability. Just crossed my mind as something someone out there might have toyed with.

[Greenbeast12]

Man, Where would the list start?
personally i would love a 20 Practical for short range varmint, 22/250ai for LR varmint - 260ai for med range (own a straight atm and love it), id love to work on a sharp should 7mm magnum but unsure which way to go with it atm. Also some sort of big bore out of my ruger gunsite scout (458 dropbear possibly).

Something else that would be cool to see is the 22 superjet (22-357 magnum) in a single shot.

[TassieTiger]

That 17/50 just looks so wrong lol. Is 5000fps possible lol.

[CAVEMAN]

Man, Where would the list start?
personally i would love a 20 Practical for short range varmint, 22/250ai for LR varmint - 260ai for med range (own a straight atm and love it), id love to work on a sharp should 7mm magnum but unsure which way to go with it atm. Also some sort of big bore out of my ruger gunsite scout (458 dropbear possibly).

Something else that would be cool to see is the 22 superjet (22-357 magnum) in a single shot.

That super jet is interesting, like an early 5.7x28. A mad tapper to the case.

[CAVEMAN]

That 17/50 just looks so wrong lol. Is 5000fps possible lol.

At some point small projectiles would have to nearly liquefy, if not just blow the breach out. I hope someday someone rely tries it though for purely scienticic reasons.

[9.3x64]

That 17/50 would make a great plinker or first gun for someone just starting out...

[TassieTiger]

Im sure it could be accomplished with some type of alloy of TI but the barrel would need to be solid TI or better.
What material do they use on the X-15 hypersonic plane...make the projectiles out of that lol - that's faster than 5000fps and that was 50 years ago...cmon humans.

[Greenbeast12]

Funnily enough I've read a few forums with pictures of chronos showing over 5000fps on 22cal projectiles, even group sizes but most of the time its just guys having fun then loading back at their normal loads

[marksman]

l know a bloke, a very good friend who in retirement started to make crazy wildcats, he has made many and says the first shot is the hardest as it may blow up
eg.... 17 dasher that he could not get a reading off the chrony from and lasted less than 400 shots
he offered me the reamer and dies but l knocked them back as you could not keep the barrels up to it

[CAVEMAN]

If you were a bit of a machinist could be quite a fun game just chambering random wildcats, and just seeing what happens.

[JimTom]

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I think this one has been mentioned somewhere on this forum before, nevertheless, here it is. The 27 Ostrich......