Wildcats for the 112 Magnum action

[LoneWolf]

The 300 Norma Mag is getting real popular. Some guys are even running 300 Norma AI variants. a 230Berger at 3100fps is going a long ways!

[yobuck]

The 300 Norma Mag is getting real popular. Some guys are even running 300 Norma AI variants. a 230Berger at 3100fps is going a long ways!

This is an excellent cartridge, and was originaly designed to be used with Rem 700 actions.
I personaly wouldn't be using a 700 action or a Savage either for one, but that's me and
obviously lots feel otherwise. Many years back a PA gunsmith by name of Howard Wolfe created a
cartridge that he could use at Williamsport with a 30" barrel. He shortened the 378 Weatherby case
and called it the 30x378 Wolfe. Localy it was simply referred to as the short version, or Wolfe version.
I ended up with one built by Howard on a mark V Weatherby action. About 5 or 6 years ago a friend had a 300 Norma
built on a 700 action he had. He brought it to the camp for bear season and showed me the cartridge.
I said that looks almost exactly like my short Wolfe case. We filled each with water and found they were within 1 grain of capacity.
For long range hunting its my favorite gun. I use 190 gr bullets in mine for hunting which have a velocity over 3350.
Theres really no need for me to own another gun for long range hunting.
However if the goal is to send bullets to extreme distances, I wouldn't even be thinking less than a 300 gr 338 in a big case built on a big action.
But again, that's me and to each his own.

[yorketransport]

The 300 Norma Mag is getting real popular. Some guys are even running 300 Norma AI variants. a 230Berger at 3100fps is going a long ways!

The Norma case is nice, but it's nothing more than a shortened and improved 338 Lapua. Even the improved Lapua leaves a lot unused potential. My 375 BME (improved 404 case) can match anything that the improved Lapua case will do. I'm looking at the 450 Dakota and Excalibur cases to work off of on the Savage action. If I'm going to make something over the top and excessive, why not go all out!

However if the goal is to send bullets to extreme distances, I wouldn't even be thinking less than a 300 gr 338 in a big case built on a big action.
But again, that's me and to each his own.

I've gone that route too. I have one 338/408 Improved rifle done and I just sent off the parts to have a specialty pistol made in 338/408 as well. Here's the rifle and the pile of parts for the pistol.



The problem with the really big stuff like the CheyTac is that you end up with a big, heavy gun that's beyond what the average guy wants to deal with. I like to come up with ideas that can be done for a reasonable price on readily available actions. The 338/408 rifle cost about $3000 to build after carefully shopping around for components. The pistol will be closer to $4000 when it's done. Those are both without optics. We all know how affordable it can be to build off of a Savage with just a simple barrel swap. The goal is just to come up with something to bridge the gap between the RUM/Lapua based rounds and the CheyTac case, but at a reasonable cost.