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WILDCAT RCBS FL DIE SET 7 X 71 MM

killiansredleokilliansredleo Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
edited January 2010 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I ws on eBay looking for wildcat dies 224/6mm when I ran across the following listing. http://cgi.ebay.com/WILDCAT-RCBS-FL-DIE-SET-7-X-71-MM_W0QQitemZ370260563458QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item56353fd602

I became curious, and tried to find out what this cartridge might be. I have searched the web and all of the books I own and cannot find anything about it.

Does anyone know anything about the cartridge these dies are designed for?
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The closest I could find was 7X61mm Sharpe & Hart Super
    7X61mm S&H Super 7X72Rmm, Could be a typo to?
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe that wildcat is based on the .338 laupa mag. That thing most be a screamer...might have to hook two chronies together and avenge the readings....lol
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They could call it the 7mm Gettysburg - because four score and seven would be about the barrel life.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    killiansredleo,

    Bits & Pieces:

    Most RCBS die boxes have a number on the end of them which can correlate to information RCBS can use to tell you more about these dies. Sometimes this number is just a generic 'custom' number which will not be referenced directly.

    I personally don't have such a cartridge by that nomenclature in my dimensional chart or any other I have access to.

    If the 71mm is to be taken seriously (which many can't be), the dimension is approximately 2.800" for the case length, actually just a pinch less at 2.795". This is right in between several other standard cases which obviously could be trimmed to accommodate the dimensional representation of 71mm or being slightly short, the dimension (71mm) is 'stretched' figuratively to use the designation. Or and more likely, it's just some case that's close and the creator chose the 71mm as being just that, close. These cases can include but are not limited to examples such as the .300 Weatherby/.300 H&H Improved, 7mm STW or cases on the type of the .338 RUM and those variations.

    The one case that intrigues me is the only one which is truly obsolete; the 8mm x 71 Peter Longo.

    The 7mm on the .338 Lapua case has been known as the 7mm Katzmaier both here and overseas. That certainly doesn't preclude some wannabe American wildcatter from taking the same idea and producing dies for his own personal use. This concept outweighs all the others by a wide margin. There is a large number of folks who want to produce a wildcat just because they can as long as they have the money for the process. They neither have the desire or the resources to research the existence of a previous cartridge but would rather produce the dies for their personal use and experimentation. This is my guess for the existence of these dies.

    Call the owner and get the RCBS number to use for tracking down the other information.

    Best.
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