Thread: Wilcats and Pressure

Originally Posted by The Claw

I think I may have worked out Mr A's secret... He has flames painted on his rifle... (see 260 loads thread)
This also supports my conclusion that he is most likely an idiot with little regard for his own/others safety for loading at excessive pressures to achieve xxxx velocity. Each to their own though, and possibly I'll be proven wrong, but in the meantime I'm happy to forego a little performance to save my life possibly...

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OMG that flame job is horrible!! Why why why???

And THAT is exactly what this thread is about
What is excessive pressure in something that does not have any pressure guidelines - sometihng completely new

You cant run to a SAAMI number as there isnt one, you can only run to signs of pressure, but if soaking your projectiles in goat piss gets rid of all the pressure signs you just had at XXX point and you can now get 10% speed more out of it before getting to that spot, then are you past the limit?
And what is this 'limit'? one that you have given yourself at some time because there isnt an industry standard? - then what if the guy next door uses tahr piss? and gets 12%?

What about the idea for eg of a super Weatherby throat (no idea on this its just an example of what-if)
Let say your 308 can run 2900fps - crazy idea - give it SHITLOADS of freebore - 4x that of a Weatherby - get a reamer made, shove it up its bum and voila, you can now get 3050 out of it before pressure signs - unsafe? well the action will hold Magnum pressures and you;re not there, and the brass isnt getting wrecked, but your mate who can only get 2950 before wrecking brass etc is going to slap you up the side of the head as you;re faster than he can get and using 3 more grains of powder.

30-06 in a 1903 was about it 110 years ago, 300 RUM is going to blow up a gun of that construction, but in a suitable action we have something that far surpasses the ol -06
Having an open mind and thinking outside of the square/triangle/circle is whats given us all these calibers over the last 100 odd years.