Wildcat Cartridges

Handheld Wind Meter for Shooters.

“The effects of wind and weather play a huge role in our sport. Not only does the wind affect the flight of the bullet, but differences in altitude, pressure, and temperature can also change the bullet’s impact,” said Emil Praslick III, Head Coach of the National / Palma® Team. “Tools like the Kestrel Pocket Weather Tracker can often mean the difference between being a winning team, or being at the weather’s mercy.” The Kestrel family include the Kestrel 1000 ($99), which measures solely wind speed, probably the most valuable information for shooters.

A complete hand-held weather station, the Kestrel 4000 NV measures every major environmental condition: barometric pressure, altitude, density altitude, temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind chill, dewpoint, wet bulb temperature and heat stress. This pocket-sized unit is more than just a weather meter for checking the current conditions; the Kestrel 4000 NV is a tracking device that allows users to log the environmental data for entire expeditions or flights. The Kestrel 2500 NV and 3500 NV operate similarly, but sample some (but not all) of the same information as the 4000.

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Hornady fans have some new bullets to look at this year.  The ballistics boys at Hornady are in the process of building their line of expanding monolithic solid bullets, known as the GMX® Bullets.  This year they introduced the 6mm GMX®, weighing in at 80 grains. 

Constructed of Gilding Metal these bullets have been tested at a wide range of velocities for expansion.  Velocities from 2000 to 3400 feet per second have been tested the bullets expand up to 1.5 times their original diameter and still retain 95% of their original weight.

So why is this news?  Well, if your one of those folks who just has to use your 6mm for deer or antelope, this kind of bullet will penetrate deep and still shed energy in the target.

There are a few more of these bullets in the R&D phase right now.  The .257, .264 (6.5mm), and a .308 bullet for the 30-30 are expected to be the next in line to hit the market.  These are lead free bullets, so they will be good news for the left coast.

Recent additions to the NoslerCustom line of brass are the 25-06 and the 7mm-08.   For those of you who may not know the differences that Nosler brass offers, here is a quick run-down.

Nosler carefully checks thier brass, case mouths are chamfered adn deburred, flash holes are deburred and check for alignment.  The brass is all sorted by weight so that you get uniform brass in each box.  Considering the difference in price, its a pretty good deal and saves you lots of time at the loading bench performing tedius tasks.

Here we are a totally new web site just for Wildcaters.  It’s tough enough to be a “gun nut” but if you have the disease bad enough; you become a wildcatter. 

This blog will contain commentary and information about wildcatting, gunsmithing, tools, reloading and much more.  I have contacted many of my acquaintances in the gun trade and many have agreed to be guest bloggers.  That means you will have access to folks who normally would not have time to blog.

Our parent web site, www.wildcatintel.com contains a huge amount of data for wildcatters.  We start off with a data base of cartridge dimensions, we will be adding drawings for each cartridge based on the dimensions so you can visually compare them.   We will continually add articles to our archive, both new and historical, we are always looking for letters and historical documents to add to our archive, so long as they add to the knowledge base for wildcatting.

If you have ideas about where this site should be headed, speak up!