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This has nothing to do with plinking the neighbours tabby cat...

How many people here are shooting wildcat cartridges and what are they? I will kick it off with my 7mm Christel which is a 300 SAUM necked down to 7mm with some changes to shoulder angle. Shot with N560 and 180 Hybrids it is my F Open rifle

Anyone else?

6.5x47 necked down. Called 22Christel or just 22C.

Savage BVSS12 stock, Savage Accutrigger, TruFlite barrel, IOR on top. Wide 740mm t-rail bipod on the front and height adjustable rear bag rider.

Very fast, very accurate, sometimes when it is warm the bullets blow up midway.

257 Roberts AI. Only fire formed 10 cases at the moment, will really get stuck in to shooting it once the stock arrives and I complete the rifle.

i think my 260 rem started out as a wildcat (6.5-08) does that count???

.243 .243 ai 6MMSLR .284 SHEHANE 6MMBR ALL CONSIDERED WILDCATS

6mm Musgrave, .303" necked down to .243".

Was in production for a while in SA, but sadly no longer as far as I know.

My dream / birthday wildcat is this : 22x64 (GSCustom)

http://www.gsgroup.co.za/22x64.html

40 grain solid @4,700 fps out of 24" barrel

Loading is simplicity itself, requiring only a 22-250 die set. A bit of load development resulted in the pressure limits being found at just over 4800 fps and it was decided to stay with a load that gave 4700 fps.
Hunting with the 22x64 turned out to be even more fun than with the 220 Swift. Time of flight was noticably shorter, wind drift was reduced and with the rifle zeroed at 275 metres, any shot out to 350 was like an extension of thought. After two seasons in the field with the rifle, it is my first choice for game up to the size of a blesbuck. So far we have recovered only two bullets, both at shorter ranges and weight retention was 34 and 39 grains.
The 22x64 has also laid to rest the theory that speed in itself causes meat damage. We have long contended that bullet fragmentation or tumbling is the real culprit. We brought back the pictures below from one of our hunts in the 2003 season. From a larger number of animals shot, we selected three that were shot with a 243 Win at similar distances and with roughly similar shot placement as three of the springbuck shot with the 22x64. The 243 was loaded with premium 100 gr bullets from Europe at a muzzle velocity of 2930 fps. With the 22x64 going 1770 fps faster, meat damage was about one quarter that of the 243.

The only unknown that now remains is how long the barrel will last. The rifle is fitted with a chromemoly barrel from Truvelo in South Africa. As a 220 Swift, it has seen in excess of 2500 shots at 4400 fps.
Rechambered to 22x64, it has now fired a further 400 plus shots. As the day it was built, it will still shoot under an inch at 100 and, with careful loading, at a half inch.

Currently trying a 6mm SLR (reformed in Redding Custom Dies from .243 Win brass)

115g DTACs & H4831sc not bad but not brilliant...l under MOA but ought to be a good bit tighter.

Trying 115g Berger VLDs next.

Using an XLR Industries stock (AR type and grip) rather than my usual Mac A5s so it could be a case of the shooter getting used to an entirely different setup and that the DTACs will turn out fine!

DaveT wrote:Currently trying a 6mm SLR (reformed in Redding Custom Dies from .243 Win brass)

115g DTACs & H4831sc not bad but not brilliant...l under MOA but ought to be a good bit tighter.

Trying 115g Berger VLDs next.

Using an XLR Industries stock (AR type and grip) rather than my usual Mac A5s so it could be a case of the shooter getting used to an entirely different setup and that the DTACs will turn out fine!

IM GOING FOR THE 115 DTACS AND R17 AND PUSH THEM HARD AND FAST

ovenpaa wrote: This has nothing to do with plinking the neighbours tabby cat...

I've shot a few Wild Cheetahs and Lions in my time - normally loaded with 35mm! Does that count?