234 Wildcat Family....ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Just talked to the wife and apparently two of my donor rifles have arrived for this project, she of course is absolutely thrilled speechless.........(that was sarcasm) it actually went something like "What the f**k do you need 2 more rifles for, you got so many you can't possibly shoot them all as it is".........Regardless I have a Mod 7 in 223 to make a Pipsqueak on and I picked up a Marlin X7 in 22-250 for the Lynx. Never even seen one of these before but Ted swears they are an excellent action and his word is good enough for me. I will likely do it with out the barrel nut though, don't care for the Salvage look. I will be knocking the barrels off 2 of my short action 700s for the 23-08 and the 230 Douglas, but I think I'll build the Penguin on a long 700 action I have, and give it a long throat for maximum capability.
My buddy/mentor just mentioned that he had a 22-6mm Rem AI reamer if I wanted to try that one too.
 
Maybe you should send me your number. I'm pretty good at sweet talking irate womean.
I get mine so lewkywhispered she don't talk to me nomo.
Makes it nice and peaceful 'round here.
I could start slowly like, Douglas mentions you have more shoes than he has triggers and
see how that start things along.
I'd do this fer a feller gummutters.........ya know.
 
Hi Douglas, you should change the title of this thread now. It is not "toolings ordered today" any more. Better change it to "my 23 penguin will beat the hell out of Gatehouse new king"
 
And so when might a person reasonably expect that they could buy a rifle, and dies, bullets. etc, to be part of this piece of Ballistics History?

Doug
 
Doug said:
And so when might a person reasonably expect that they could buy a rifle, and dies, bullets. etc, to be part of this piece of Ballistics History?

Doug
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PS) I promise to do my part to spread the joy far and wide. As soon as I have played with a .234 Lynx or Cougar or Penguin, or Douglas, or whatever, I will be happy to sell that rig to somebody and it can go to a new home. Gunny Appleseed, that's me. :dancingbanana:
 
Doug said:
And so when might a person reasonably expect that they could buy a rifle, and dies, bullets. etc, to be part of this piece of Ballistics History?

Doug
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Doug, I'm working on it, but just when I may have rifles and barrels for general sale is hard to say at this point. I really didn't envision this as a "sales enterprise" initially, but given the interest it would seem appropriate, but as to when I couldn't say just yet.
 
c-fbmi said:
Doug, I'm working on it, but just when I may have rifles and barrels for general sale is hard to say at this point. I really didn't envision this as a "sales enterprise" initially, but given the interest it would seem appropriate, but as to when I couldn't say just yet.
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Fair enough, Douglas. Could a fellow speed things along by mailing out a donor rifle/action/barrel/whatever?

Doug
 
when you get bored with this project ... what do you suppose might happen with these said rifles? hint hint :)

I suppose a real business type would rent them out for say a week at a time
 
Salty said:
Not illegal to sell reloads privately in small quantity to the best of my knowledge. Doing it commercially would be another story without a ton of paperwork and licences. Normally wouldn't want to buy reloads though.. unless you know and trust the person's knowledge and care in making them.
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In B.C. and possibly elsewhere in Canada it is against the law to sell handloaded ammunition unless you have a manufacturing license... and the appropriate liability insurance.

A friend can load your bullets, powder, primers, brass for you... he can't charge for that service.
 
tylerjwitty said:
when you get bored with this project ... what do you suppose might happen with these said rifles? hint hint :)

I suppose a real business type would rent them out for say a week at a time
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Ya or lend them out for a year or so.............this was never intended to be a money making venture, just a fun "what if" project........it would be nice if down the road I could sell enough rifles and barrels to cover the tooling costs of about 5K but even if I don't it doesn't matter, it was all done for self interest and experience. I'm astounded at the interest shown here and will try to accommodate all who wish to play, but making money at it was never an issue or even a thought. I will probably build myself one of each cartridge and keep them for posterity and work up loads and maybe try to get them written up in Cartridges of the World. I will endeavor to get all who are interested rifles and barrels and then I'm sure I'll be off on some other hair brained scheme............
 
Soon as my reamer gets here I'm ready
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Well performance wise, as the Creedmoor and the 260 are as close to identical as damn is to swearin' so would the creed and 308 variant in 23 cal no? But agreed Creedmoor sounds cooler :)
 
c-fbmi said:
Ya or lend them out for a year or so.............this was never intended to be a money making venture, just a fun "what if" project........it would be nice if down the road I could sell enough rifles and barrels to cover the tooling costs of about 5K but even if I don't it doesn't matter, it was all done for self interest and experience. I'm astounded at the interest shown here and will try to accommodate all who wish to play, but making money at it was never an issue or even a thought. I will probably build myself one of each cartridge and keep them for posterity and work up loads and maybe try to get them written up in Cartridges of the World. I will endeavor to get all who are interested rifles and barrels and then I'm sure I'll be off on some other hair brained scheme............
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Pick me, coach, I'm HOT! Cash in hand...........

Doug
 
Havent read this in a little while and caught up today..all I can is WOW! Great job guys! At some point I would love a 234 cal just to say I have one! I think my favourite outta them all is either the 234-250, 234 short mag or the 234-243. Of course theyre all great, but I just have a thing for 308 necked up/down cartridges, and the short mags are sweet too!
 
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