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The celebrated Mr. K built one for me, but didn't know it at the time.

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The other 'cat has a cold.

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I am..........disturbed.

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I'm 21 and don't have a wildcat, but the 338x57 really intrigues me.
Would like on on a mauser action sized to the 7x57 cartridge.

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Originally Posted by JackVliet
I'm 21 and don't have a wildcat, but the 338x57 really intrigues me.
Would like on on a mauser action sized to the 7x57 cartridge.


I've got a 9x57(.358 pilot) reamer that may interest you,..


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Just got my first... Not too young but always interested me as well. A 25-300wsm. Still waiting to get it loaded and shoot it.

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I've been into wildcats since my college days. Of course I didn't have alot of money, not that I do now, but I was planning some project or another. My first wildcat was a Shaw barreled Model Seven in 250 Ackley.


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I am not young, my first wildcats were the .22-250 and .25-06.. Both were built just before they became std cartridges... I currently have a .22-250 AI.. Not much trouble to make.. When the barrel goes, not sure what I will replace it with..


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I'm 23 and just got my first one, a 7mm Mashburn. Thinking about a .338-06 AI or .340 Gibbs next.


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Most of the wildcats I played with when I was young are now standardized:
375 JDJ
475 Linebaugh
7 SGLC (7-08)
6.5-06
338-06 AI
475 Wildey (not a standard round )
445 Super Mag

The ones I am playing with now are:
6.5 WSM
30 Newton
416 Taylor
soon to start with a 25 Gibbs

GuideGun PM me, I think I have some 338-06 AI brass still


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I'm not that old, but started in my mid 20's when I started building rifles. I still shoot all of these but the 6.5-06. I usually get a kick out of something different.

-6mm-06 imp (several)
-6.5-280 Imp
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-Variant of a blown out beltless 308 Norma of my own doing
-22-6mm
-6.5-06

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A couple years ago I bought 100 9.3x64 Brenneke brass and formed them to my 6.5SLR for my six lug Weatherby Mark V. It looks like a .257 Wea with no belt. It holds the same amount of water as a .264 Win Mag. I thoroughly enjoy shooting so I fired it and fired it and fired it and needed new brass. Alas I couldn't find any. A local machinist told me he could solve my problem by turning the belt off 7 Rem Mag brass so I had him do it with 200 cases. I still have to size the mouth and shoulder to hold the 6.5 bullets. They work like a champ. It's getting a new barrel at this time.

By the way the cost is the same as when I purchased the Brenneke brass in the first place.

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Originally Posted by JackVliet
I'm 21 and don't have a wildcat, but the 338x57 really intrigues me.
Would like on on a mauser action sized to the 7x57 cartridge.

338x57 is a pretty good one IF ones goal is to refresh an unusually fancy barrel chambered in 8x57. If you're rebarrelling anyway, how's 'bout making yer own 6x57 wildcat. Never saw one of those before...

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Originally Posted by prairie_goat
.....I was fairly young when I went through the.....subsequent realization of the futility of such ventures.


Agree. But, I'm keeping the 280 AI until death do us part.


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Hit me when I was a teenager but never had the money till I was in my late 20 s....my first was a 25-308 ....

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Originally Posted by rainierrifleco
..my first was a 25-308 ....


And, what'd you think of it?


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22-243Win, 223AI, 22K-Hornet, 375 Allen mag, 22 Creedmoor, 6 Creedmoor


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OH Man do I......

Oops.

You boys are talkin' rifles.

My bad.

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338x57 is a pretty good one IF ones goal is to refresh an unusually fancy barrel chambered in 8x57. If you're rebarrelling anyway, how's 'bout making yer own 6x57 wildcat. Never saw one of those before...[/quote]

That would be the 6mm Remington.

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Yep.


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As a young man of about 65 I had my first wildcat, a 250/3000 AI then a little older I built a 30/284 on a Ruger #3 with #1 type stock/forend. The Rug3 is now a Pac Nor barreled 6.5X55. Still a young feller turning 78 in a month and I'd like another 250/3000AI. Birthday presents now being accepted! Would be nice on a Kimber M84.

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Actually it would be a 6x57 Mauser circa 1895, it is getting harder and harder to come up with something new.


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