Big bore .308 Win Wildcats

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Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats

#21 Post by meles meles »

.455 ? Oh indeedy...
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ovenpaa wrote:Wait until you see the donor rifle Rob :run:
The mind boggles - tell me more :good:
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#23 Post by User702 »

.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
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User702 wrote:.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
Wouldn't the external diameter of the bullet be larger than the internal diameter of the case? kukkuk :lol:
Think about .44 auto mag which was just a cut down .308 case.
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#25 Post by Chapuis »

Ovenpaa you have really started something now. Having seen the picture of your dummy rounds I couldn't resist and made up a dummy using a 280 grain cast bullet pushed into a .308w case forming a 9.3x51mm wildcat. The big fat flat nosed bullet with a huge meplat in the dumpy case is just sexy.
I wouldn't know if such a round would offer any real advantage over any existing cartridges such as a 9.3x62 Mauser or even if such a cartridge would be ballistically feasible but it certainly gets my interest.
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#26 Post by meles meles »

Big, slow and silent...

A lot of uses for that.
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#27 Post by saddler »

meles meles wrote:Big, slow and silent...
...sounds like SimG's missus, apart from the side-effects of all them curries
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#28 Post by DW58 »

I've been mulling over the idea of subsonic centrefire rounds for a while - following this with interest :good:
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#29 Post by ovenpaa »

Chapuis wrote:Ovenpaa you have really started something now. Having seen the picture of your dummy rounds I couldn't resist and made up a dummy using a 280 grain cast bullet pushed into a .308w case forming a 9.3x51mm wildcat. The big fat flat nosed bullet with a huge meplat in the dumpy case is just sexy.
I wouldn't know if such a round would offer any real advantage over any existing cartridges such as a 9.3x62 Mauser or even if such a cartridge would be ballistically feasible but it certainly gets my interest.
Chapuis, any chance of a picture I would build a couple of dummy rounds for myself however the largest suitable bullets I have are 9mm/.355
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#30 Post by saddler »

Chapuis wrote:
User702 wrote:.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
Wouldn't the external diameter of the bullet be larger than the internal diameter of the case? kukkuk :lol:
Think about .44 auto mag which was just a cut down .308 case.
.476 Webley = heeled/stepped bullet
.41 Action Express = stepped case

Think .455 Auto MAG & then just work around the problems
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