If you were to design a wildcat, what would it be?

[yorketransport]

I'm getting bored while waiting for a couple of projects to get finished up so it's time to start working on the next round of ideas. I have a few different cartridges drawn up but none of them are really jumping out at me right now. The current ideas range from 6mm cartridges for the AR-15 (or CZ 527) sized actions up through 7mm and 300s with 130+gr case capacities.

I haven't really decided on what the use should be. I'm thinking about a hunting cartridge in the 9.3mm bore since that's the only bore diameter between .17 and .510 that I've never played with. The easy answer is a 375 Ruger case necked down to 9.3, but that's a little bland. It's just too close to the 375 to really stand out.

So I guess the real question is what's the one cartridge that you wish were out there?

Maybe the I just need to follow through with the 300 Boondoggle off of the 450 Dakota case. That should get the 230gr Berger Hybrid in the 3300+ fps range.

[bobcat]

I'd love to have a 25 WSM. Just guessing here but I bet it would be very similar to the 257 Weatherby but with less recoil and a belt-less case. I don't need another rifle but if someone would come out with a 25 WSM I'd find it hard to resist.

[jasnt]

You already know what I want. 243 SAUM  but I also have interest in 7/300wm or the 7 rogue from RBros I believe. Also the 7/375Wy mag

[CaNINE]

Funny...I was just discussing this with a buddy on Friday night while we were annealing brass...

We discussed necking the 30 Nosler case up to .338; and brining life back to the 7mmWSM with a +P variant

He has a 6mmWSM barrel on the way from Brux - not a new wildcat but it's always fun to tinker around with something non-standard.

[jdb]

I've always wanted to neck a .338-06 up to .30 caliber and call it the .30-338-06

[Dan-o]

A 17-416 Rigby???

Trying for the highest muzzle velocity and yet still have a bullet that poops out by 500 yards........         

[yorketransport]

A 17-416 Rigby???

Trying for the highest muzzle velocity and yet still have a bullet that poops out by 500 yards........       

Now we're getting somewhere!  But think of the barrel life!!!!!

I'd love to have a 25 WSM. Just guessing here but I bet it would be very similar to the 257 Weatherby but with less recoil and a belt-less case. I don't need another rifle but if someone would come out with a 25 WSM I'd find it hard to resist.

I helped a guy come up with a 25 SAUM reamer a while back. It easily matched the 257 Weatherby. It was a very cool round that's been working great for the guy on deer in Alabama.

You already know what I want. 243 SAUM  but I also have interest in 7/300wm or the 7 rogue from RBros I believe. Also the 7/375Wy mag

That 243 SAUM would be a coyote killing machine!

[elkslayer069]

I've always wanted to neck a .338-06 up to .30 caliber and call it the .30-338-06

Really?? Neck a .338 up to .30 i hope someone else does your check book for you. 

[whacker1]

much like the barrel life of zero....The 6.5 - 378 weatherby.  I know others have done the 6.5 -300RUM

[Bigshooter]

I've always wanted to neck a .338-06 up to .30 caliber and call it the .30-338-06

That's been around for a long time.  It's called the 30-06.

[Curly]

6mm-nosler

[BULLBLASTER]

.416 rum

[kentrek]

375 wsm seems like it would fit the bill for a short range heavy hitter..something similar to 375 h&h performance but in short action

 

[Jolten]

6mm-50bmg would be fun.

[Bill W]

.243 Hornet.