Per a phone call, I just hung up, Dave Kiff, of P.T.& G. in White City, Ore., is sending me his ideas on my reamer print, sometime later in the day. They are just now breaking for lunch. I'm using a lot of background data from this thread and a 6mm wildcat thread from the Shooters Forum boards to hold up my design arguments.
Spurious data and B.S. here, will really hurt my pocket book. This is the old "the customer is always right", saying. Closer to point, is Garbage in, Garbage Out (G.I.G.O.). So, yes, I want the members to stand up and be counted, if some nitwit goes off the reservation. I'm not saying that Dave K. would deliberately let me put my foot in it, but something may creep in, on that print that doesn't need to be there.
Ben Syring at Hornady's custom die desk, will use this print to make two sizing dies to bring down a 300 RCM to my 6mm wildcat. So getting the straight skinny, is pretty important to me. I vote to brush back any Bull#$%^, immediately!
1. $100 each for the two sizing dies from Hornady.
2. $170 for a P.T.& G. finish reamer (piloted).
3. $30 for a PT&G GO gauge.
So some clown putting out deliberate false info here, could possibly cost me about $400, and also the lost time needed to reconfigure my design.
This will actually be the third number in my wildcat family based on the 375 Ruger brass. But it will be the first to use the half inch shorter RCM case as its parent. Using oversized pilots, my G.S. made up a 416 Wildcat on my PT&G 8mm Mag reamer. With this little juggling act, I got a maximum bore of 416, using my aggressive case taper. With the shorter case, my shoulder grows from .483 to .494, so I may even be able to squeeze a shoulder head spaced 404 out of it, down the road.
My case taper is close to the 458 American's, and so short chambering with my 8mm Mag reamer, isn't a viable option. So this RCM variant will be seriously expensive. If I can figure out how to post a photo, I'll send one with my custom 416, with the signed Een Skoot Mood Gnu barrel. It has the full half inch long neck, that the 375 Ruger Basic case is capable of.
The reason I went with a 416 was that my desired 375 bullet is the 285 Speer Grand Slam, which is too long for a stock military Mauser magazine, and a 2.58 long Ruger case. But my design still gives me a 7/16th's inch long neck in the .375 bore. So I'm keeping it on the back burner for the time being.
All of this trolling doesn't help me keep my priorities, (left handed), straight. Lefties, like myself, always have to interpolate the claims of the right handed masses. Even when they are trying their best to be painfully honest and accurate.
