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.30 GIBBS is finally ready ...
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1899173" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>I wonder what the throat length will be? I know the cartridge was designed back in the light n fast days, so it may be relatively short for sending 150 type bullets really fast, but that would really just depend on what reamer your smith picked. </p><p></p><p>The 30 gibs is actually the cartridge that got me interested in wildcats, I remember seeing it in one of my fathers magazines back when I was just a little guy, 7 or 8, and thinking "wow that is strange looking!! The neck is so short!!" So I begun the "why?" Questions with my father, and began learing about increased shoulder angle, forming brass, increasing performance and case life by case design, etc.</p><p></p><p>Shortly after I first began learning about it from my father, he started getting rifles built again, starting with a 35 whelen AI on a eddystone enfield action, an 8mm-06 out of a small ring mauser 98 using the original stepped barrel, he just had the 8mm mauser chamber reamed out with a 30-06 reamer, and a 6.5x55 sweed on the same type of action, and most recently a .264 win mag on a ruger action that used to be a 300 win mag. All have been great shooters, and he has kept me involved as I grew up, so I learned how a rifle was built. Then the first rifle I ever built instead of bought, was a .260 AI, and I absolutely love it.</p><p></p><p>While I know it is certainly not, specifically in my mind the 30 gibs has always been the "first" wildcat, simply because it was the first one I personally started learning about, and what initially sparked my interest in the subject. </p><p></p><p>Very neat build, I love the idea of taking a factory rifle and putting minimal investment in, and making an outstanding unique build. While $3,000+ rifles are cool and I love them, I think (likely because of my father building off $150 military mausers) the guns like this are far more unique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1899173, member: 87243"] I wonder what the throat length will be? I know the cartridge was designed back in the light n fast days, so it may be relatively short for sending 150 type bullets really fast, but that would really just depend on what reamer your smith picked. The 30 gibs is actually the cartridge that got me interested in wildcats, I remember seeing it in one of my fathers magazines back when I was just a little guy, 7 or 8, and thinking "wow that is strange looking!! The neck is so short!!" So I begun the "why?" Questions with my father, and began learing about increased shoulder angle, forming brass, increasing performance and case life by case design, etc. Shortly after I first began learning about it from my father, he started getting rifles built again, starting with a 35 whelen AI on a eddystone enfield action, an 8mm-06 out of a small ring mauser 98 using the original stepped barrel, he just had the 8mm mauser chamber reamed out with a 30-06 reamer, and a 6.5x55 sweed on the same type of action, and most recently a .264 win mag on a ruger action that used to be a 300 win mag. All have been great shooters, and he has kept me involved as I grew up, so I learned how a rifle was built. Then the first rifle I ever built instead of bought, was a .260 AI, and I absolutely love it. While I know it is certainly not, specifically in my mind the 30 gibs has always been the "first" wildcat, simply because it was the first one I personally started learning about, and what initially sparked my interest in the subject. Very neat build, I love the idea of taking a factory rifle and putting minimal investment in, and making an outstanding unique build. While $3,000+ rifles are cool and I love them, I think (likely because of my father building off $150 military mausers) the guns like this are far more unique. [/QUOTE]
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