Bought used about 1971. FN 1949 action, converted to single shot, 28 inch heavy barrel marked Pfieffer rifle Co, Roscoe Calif. Nice heavy walnut stock, 20x Unertl target scope. Have shot many rounds in the last 35 years. Last time out 2 five shot groups under .3 at 100 yards.
My late uncle was a big Wasp fan in the 50s & 60s. He shot both the rimmed and rimmless (30 Rem. cases) versions. I can still remember an 03 Springfield / shortened an inch with a Lyman 12X Super Spot he had. That and a certain M70 300H&H are the two guns I remember most about him. He's the one who infected me with this gun thing. BTW, I came into the 300 H&H a couple of months back.
He always claimed that the best brass for the 219 rimmed was made from 219 Zipper. Pedro
SKB, I have a Contender barrel in 219 Zipper that I'd consider selling. With dies, 30-30 form dies and formed cases. If you're interested, I'll work up a price.
For comparison, the Zipper gives 223 performance or a bit more but at lower pressures.
I just competed the build up of my Wasp a few months ago. It's a Mark X action mated to a Douglas barrel. The stock is a Richards AA Fancy Maple in a walking varminter countour. I'm real happy with it. Have had only one range outing so far but I look forward to much fun with this one.
Old Harvey knew what he was doing when he "optimized" the Wasp case to burn all the powder efficiently, churning out near Swift and 22-250 performance with less powder. It's a shame that the rimmed or rimless version never went commercial. However, I think that mightl change with the introduction of the new 6.8mm SPC based on the old .30 Remington case (a la rimless Wasp parent). The 6.8mm case length is just a smidgen shorter ( about 0.057"shorter) than the "standard" 1.75" Wasp case. How much of a stretch is it to imagaine a 0.224 version of the SPC? Maybe Harvey Donaldson's objective of commercial adoption of the 219 Was[ will come about ...... 60 years late.
It's a 14" bull T/C production barrel (not custom house) - which is kinda rare especially in that chambering. I have not had to turn any necks for it, and the RCBS form die set works very well with no special tricks needed.
I'd sell it slick (no sights, no scope base). Just as a rough number, let's call it $275 for the lot, plus actual shipping. The FL dies are Redding, the form die set is RCBS. There's probably 100 rounds of fire-formed brass.
I just found a similar barrel on another site for $200, BTW. So the package price I quoted is a good one. Form dies alone are $75 or more.
