About the .218 Bee. Been about a year now, but crossed paths with a fellow member of our private shooting club one day and topic of the .218 Bee was discussed.
Gent was a master machinist that worked in one of the very large chemical/oil plants/refineries in the Houston, Tx area. He will show me a piece of odd ball looking brass he made using a die set he'd made to convert .223 brass to what he called his .223 Short. What the heck is this I ask? He explained that he had owned a couple of old, but very nice and very accurate 218 Bee rifles for a long time....that they were some of his favorite rifles to shoot. He'd had no luck in finding any .218 Bee brass for too long a time. I'm going to rechamber my Bee rifles to my .223 Short. Gent then says, don't think I'll have a problem finding any brass then. Uhhhh, I will ask, you gonna send off samples of your .223 short brass to a Reamer maker and have them make a reamer? No, he replied, I'll make the chamber reamer too. Must be nice to be able to do that, I replied.
Anyway, if I had to decide what to do with a Martini Cadet action, I'd give a lot of thought to making a .357 mag martini and then be able to shoot some .38 special in it too. Just the opinion of a fellow 22 Hornet Martini Cadet owner.
Last edited by huffmanite; 04/25/15.