I'm wondering why there doesn't seem to be many wildcats made from the 8mm Mauser case? I know someone who wants to get a 25/8mm made up. It sounds kind of interesting and unique. I never heard of one of those as a wildcat but I'm sure almost everything has been tried before. Not sure what it could do that much differently then the 25/06 or 257 Roberts.
Wildcats made with 8mm mauser case?
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Northman999
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I was just reading my hornady manual and it stated that most modern rifle cartridges can trace their origins to only four cartridges; 375 H&H, 404 jeffrey, 30-06 and the 8mm mauser. So there must be lots of cartridges out there similar to what you are looking for. Darned if I know what any of them are right from heart, except for the great 9.3x57, of course. That not being a wildcat.
I think a .25x57 would only duplicate what's already out there, but still might be a nice rifle.
I think a .25x57 would only duplicate what's already out there, but still might be a nice rifle.
Necking the 8x57mm case to .25 would be reinventing the .257 Roberts. It was originally based on the 7mm Mauser case, which was in turn derived from the original 8mm case.
For that matter, there was a 6x57mm Mauser cartridge developed in the 1890s, which was for all practical purposes the 6mm Remington, only several decades earlier. Other lesser-known Mauser-derived 57mm cartridges include the .22 Newton and a 6.8x57 developed for China (this was the first cartridge to use .277" bullets).
Most of the standard calibres have been adapted to the original-length Mauser family of cases. The reason they aren't more popular nowadays is that they are too long for short actions and needlessly short for standard actions that can accommodate .30-06 length cartridges.
Not quite. The 8X57 case is the same length, but is longer in the body, giving it considerably more case capacity.
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