Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:44 am
.455 ? Oh indeedy...
The mind boggles - tell me moreovenpaa wrote:Wait until you see the donor rifle Rob
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Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
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Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:15 am
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:43 am
.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:01 am
Wouldn't the external diameter of the bullet be larger than the internal diameter of the case?User702 wrote:.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
:lol: Think about .44 auto mag which was just a cut down .308 case.
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:36 pm
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.
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.
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:37 pm
Big, slow and silent...
A lot of uses for that.
A lot of uses for that.
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:46 pm
...sounds like SimG's missus, apart from the side-effects of all them curriesmeles meles wrote:Big, slow and silent...
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:05 pm
I've been mulling over the idea of subsonic centrefire rounds for a while - following this with interest
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:16 pm
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/.355Chapuis 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.
Re: Big bore .308 Win Wildcats
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:19 pm
.476 Webley = heeled/stepped bulletChapuis wrote:Wouldn't the external diameter of the bullet be larger than the internal diameter of the case?User702 wrote:.455/.308? I'd like to see a pistol made with that.
Think about .44 auto mag which was just a cut down .308 case.
.41 Action Express = stepped case
Think .455 Auto MAG & then just work around the problems