What are the advantages over a .243AI? Haven't had a chance to read much about it.
What are the advantages over a .243AI? Haven't had a chance to read much about it.
Longer neck and less powder capacity = longer barrel and brass life over 243 and 243AI; brass is easy to prepare over 6XC or 6CM.
Here is what I made running 243 through 6BR die:
I don't know the exact definition of wildcat but i load 100 gr. Hornady XTP .32 cal (.312?) in my .303 brit. I can't remember the charge but at 2500+ fps those things seem to detonate on impact in jugs of water. they get horrible groups though, prob 4" @ 100yds. They cycle through my no5 without jamming.
I've considered doing one of my own. I shoot an Uberti Henry in Cowboy Action, .44-40 caliber. The original Henry rimfire cartridge was quite a bit shorter than the .44-40. So I've thought about making a .44-40 Shorty, by trimming .44-40 to .44Special length. Thus leaves just enough neck to hold the bullet. The Henry cartridge only held about 28 or grains of powder, so my .44-40 Shorty would be very close to that. I'd have to have a gunsmith adjust the carrier of my rifle for the shorter cartridge. The rifle would then hold 15 or 16 cartridges, instead of the 12 I can put in it now, again making it more like the original.
I'll probably never get around to actually doing it, just a mental exercise more than anything.
I'll probably never get around to actually doing it, just a mental exercise more than anything.
338 edge, 6mm Rat currently, sold the 284 shehane, 6 Dasher, 300 jarrett
Mmm, 280 AI, I have been trying to talk myself out of that caliber for about a year. I already have all the parts for 6.5CM build, but am thinking about scraping that and building the 280AI in an old r700 I have taking up space in the safe.
So many guns to build and no time to shoot them all.
What would 280AI do that 7mm-08AI can't? It seems that plain 280 uses too much powder already (3-5% velocity gain with 20% more powder), why make it "bigger"?
About 30yrs ago I stuck a 90 grain 9mm HP pistol bullet on top of 46 grains of IMR 4320 powder in my 35 Brown whelen. Danged near cut an adult coyote in half. That thing was moving at 3440 fps when it hit the 'yote. I built seven rifles all based on the full length '06 case. Some of them like the 280 Remington, the 35 Whelen, 25/06 got popular. They were fun to make, shoot, and experiment with.
Okay, I'll bite. What is the .14 Piss Ant? I googled it and only came up with one reference, and that had no information.
