[Bartmasterson3]

Hi Marshall,

Good to see you posting here again!

Re: the 375 Beartooth, I did a full forum search and only found 2 mentions of these keywords.  One was this thread and the other one was just a teaser about this cartridge.  I think it was James Gates who posted it and it said something about this round being based on a 30-06 case???  Doesn't sound like a cartridge for (Marlin) leverguns, which I think you are alluding to in your post here.  Could you give us more info about this?  Does anyone know where to find the original posts on this?  I remember reading them earlier this year.

And I have to ask this:  Just where is this 275 gr 375 caliber bullet going to come from ))).   Are we (the 375 junkies) going to get our lusted for WFN maybe?

 

[Bartmasterson3]

To be honest I have no experience wildcatting so probably don't have much constructive to say about this choice of parent case, but isn't there another case with similar qualities that isn't obsolete.  I don't know of any popular cartridges that are based on the 350 Rem Mag.  The 348 Win at least has hardcore 500 Linebaugh fans to keep it alive not to mention the dyed-in-the-wool 348 shooters that hang around here.  How about basing on a common case with simple forming requirements, a la JDJones?  Maybe use a 45/70 case or something.  I don't know how original this wildcat has to be but there are changes that can make it different (shoulder angle, neck length, etc).  It was mentioned by Alk8944 that the 45/70 version of this caliber has been done before.  Was that with cast or jacketed bullets?  Your's would be a cast bullet cartridge I'm sure, perhaps providing a differentiation on that point.

Don't get me wrong here...I'm not being critical to be a jerk.  I'm just interested in the practicality.  Besides, one of these days I'll be interested (as in "afford") in building a 375 SLG (SuperLeverGun) and want to be sure that cases are readily available.

Hope you get a chance to get started on this project soon. I'm extremely interested in seeing the results.