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A while back the "Quest Bug" came through an attacked me. It is the Quest to build something you don't have or can't find. It is how I come by my handle. It is all about the quest to build close to the perfect made gun. Not in the sense it is the best gun in the world but you left nothing to chance on how well it will shoot. So I built a 250-3000 AI. I had a Remington 788 308 donor gun. At the time I was into thumbwhole stocks. So I had MPI build me a custom stock for it. I am right handed. I put a 24 in Pack-Nor 1-10 twist barrel on it. Classbed it and pillard bed it also. Worked on the Factory trigger. Put a 6-20 lupy target dot on it. Took it to the Range. This gun shoots well into .19-.20 groups fire forming brass. It likes standard 250-3000 loads. It likes to kill yotes and deer. The Lupy is my test scope. It now is on a diffrent gun. If you go to search type in Bend, Classified, there are pictures of it there. It is for sell. The stock locks a little ruff, It was MPI First thumbwhole for a 788. After I finish the quest, the guns end up never being shot. I have been bitten by the Quest Bug again and it time to thin out the never get shots again.

Haven't heard of that one....250-3000 AI has been done.

What's the parent cartridge?

Steve, thanks for bring it to my attion to go back and change the post name. I onced turned some 300 Savage brass for a guy to make 250-3000 brass. At that time 250-3000 brass was hard to come by and he had a 22-250 and did not want to neck the brass up. It became a joke between us he had a 250-300, and he had me stamp it on his barrel.

That's funny. Someone steals it, just look for the guy they call "Stumpy"

Steve, I haved owned 22-250AI, 250-3000AI, 257 Roberts AI, and have played with other wildcats that are found in Vol. 1&2 in P.O. Ackley books. Working up loads out of those books are scary. What I like most about those books, nothing new, just new names. About evry Com. round today can be found in those books. You read what he did to find out what it took to blow up guns. A lot of Sammi. spec came from that research. Most reader don't understand what those books are about. They are a history book of what reloaders where trying to do, Gave loads that one guy had written down while working with that round. The loads shot gave someone else a referance point. New powders let you go back and reviset old cartridges, tweek them a little and re-name them. Now Nosler is making improved cases. where only a couple of years ago you had to fire fourm them. A couple of years ago the STW bug was the fad. Those articals wrote about the 358 STA, the loads listed in the Magizines are not in any reloading manuals. Nor are most new rounds that don't start out as a factory round. Even some of them are suspect. The WSM where puplished on 26 barrels, and alot of the first rifles where 22 inch barrels. If it where not for new twist on old ideas guns would get boring real fast.

Indeed.

Thing is that powders and bullets have changed so much. What used to be "over-bore" can now be a turned into a laser beam.

I decided to get QuickLoad. It hasn't come yet, but when it does, I should be dangerous.

I'm just getting too impatient and components are getting too expensive to experiment like I usta could.

Steve, my next project is a 300 Rem. Ultra Mag.(RUM)necked up to a 338. The 300 Rum case is about a 10th of an inch longer than the 338 RUM . It is called somtimes the 338 Edge or 338/300 RUM.
I am building it on a Ruger #1. Putting a 36 Pack-Nor 1-9 twist on it. Wildcat bullets is making a .338 300 grain bullet with a B.C. of over.900 I plan to push it over 3000 FPS. He is working on a 265 grain .338 that will have close to the same B.C. Let me know when you get Quickload in. I know this will eat up the powder, hoping to get up 3200 FPS. I know it is going to have a muzzle break on it and one of my new custom Scope bases on it also.

I will...it will be fun to tinker with.

Those bullets sound like long things. Sierra's 338 MK is only at a BC of .77 or so.

I thought about the Edge, but I have both a 300 RUM and 338 RUM. The thought of screwing up with ammo came to mind as well, but, that 338 RUM is one of my favorite rifles ever. It has a 1:10 K&P barrel. I get under 2" groups (5 shot) at 450 yds with that silly rifle. I don't really need it for elk, but it sure is reliable.

Seems that would be a good candidate for Retumbo or 50 BMG powder.

There are a few 338 Edge advocates on the LongRange website.

Have you seen any of the posts on this site?

338 Edge at 1000 yds

Steve, I have the 375 Rum. My wife got it for me on our 25th wedding Aniv. When I put the limb saver recoil pad on it, boy it took most of the abuse a way, never shot it for groups beyond 200 yards, If I do my part, I can get it to clover leaf. I am only shooting light loads in it with 260 grainers, about 2800 fps. The Bullets are long, that is why I decided to make it on a Ruger #1 Rifle, did not want to take the bolt out between shots and was not interseted in paying what they want for a 50 Cal. length bolt acttion repeater,