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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2012, 03:20:53 PM »
Well now that you tried your hand at luck, do yourself a favor. STOP. You have no idea what you are messing with. You have a hell of a lot of experience on this board trying to keep your eyes on the front side of your face, and we don't yet know what you have. For your own safety and those around you....DO NOT SHOOT THAT GUN UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.

Seriously. Spending the money on a gun smith is a much cheaper investment than the surgeon removing a chunk of the bolt form your face when that thing explodes on you.

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2012, 03:29:23 PM »
If you get antsy and go out to shoot it again please keep something in mind. It will much harder for the next person to buy with with some of your face juice still splattered on the bluing. Just saying.

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2012, 03:38:54 PM »
so i shot it and it split the casing

hahaha! i laughed so hard when i saw this. i think i have a broken sense of humor

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2012, 06:39:20 PM »
so i shot it and it split the casing

hahaha! i laughed so hard when i saw this. i think i have a broken sense of humor

I did too, the idiocy inherent in even contemplating shooting a rifle like this floors me. I am assuming that the shooter was looking to incur a little Natural Selection.
The reason there are so many Ruger upgrades is because they're necessary.

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2012, 07:38:14 PM »
Not much I can say that hasn't been said......hope you live long enough to find out what you have.
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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2012, 09:00:31 PM »
It could be a 6mm REM AI? You need to be sure of what it is first. As for guys telling you to shoot factory .243 through a .243 AI chamber is BS! Many times while fire forming wildcats I have spilt cases, due to the fact the bullet was not contacting the lands and pushing the case head completely flush with the bolt face. All sorts of nasty stuff happens when the case can move reward during fire form. Here is a example of a Bell .404 Jeffery's case that wasn't against the bolt face and the bullet touching the lands upon fire forming to 450 Ultra Magnum. Your making a awful quick jump into the higher ranks of reloading and it is dangerous!

Mind you, this is a belt less magnum cartridge to boot.


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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2012, 09:23:15 PM »
alright guys dont call me a idiot. i wasnt a dumb as when i did i had a face sheild on and gloves, so i did take precautions. i dont got the casing i left it there i wasnting think it matter if i left it or not. and all it says on the barrel is H & R mod 300 .243. also on the bottom of the barrel there is a p stamped on it. dont knw if that matters

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2012, 11:01:22 PM »
alright guys dont call me a idiot. i wasnt a dumb as when i did i had a face sheild on and gloves, so i did take precautions. i dont got the casing i left it there i wasnting think it matter if i left it or not. and all it says on the barrel is H & R mod 300 .243. also on the bottom of the barrel there is a p stamped on it. dont knw if that matters

A face shield might help save you from a ruptured primer, but anything beyond that....good luck. You need to cast the chamber and figure out what it is. It's gonna cost you $30-50 and then you can get some dies for it and live happily ever after.....if you keep guessing, again.....good luck.

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2012, 11:16:17 PM »
If I was going to take precautions for an experiment like this one I would probably be duct taping the rifle to a stump and pulling the trigger with fishing line while I was around the other side of a large tree...
The reason there are so many Ruger upgrades is because they're necessary.

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2012, 12:30:16 AM »
If I was going to take precautions for an experiment like this one I would probably be duct taping the rifle to a stump and pulling the trigger with fishing line while I was around the other side of a large tree...

 :yeah:


I would've had a heck of a flinch when trying to squeeze that thing off with only a face shield!

I actually don't know if I could've convinced my finger to pull that trigger.    :yike:
« Last Edit: January 17, 2012, 12:36:46 AM by bobcat »

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2012, 12:35:41 AM »
Sounds like that would have been a good idea to do. Please take it to a smith! Last thing we want is for you to get hurt doing something like that.
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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2012, 08:29:39 AM »
Some very good advice here from some very competent people. One think to think about... all you know at this point is.that the bore is. 243 or 6mm. The rest is a mystery. If you had a 300 ultra mag and only knew it was a 30 Cal would you feel safe trying a .308 cartridge? That is essentially what you were trusting maybe not as extreme but could be.
Be careful and take that thing to a gunsmith before someone gets hurt.

But do.let us know what it is in the end!  :)

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Re: NEED HELP with .243 wildcat
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2012, 05:18:37 PM »
Sell it to me and I'll mess with it until  I get bored and peddle it off somewhere.

 


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