Is that a new wildcat I haven't heard about yet? And where can I get one?!?!?!?
Is that a new wildcat I haven't heard about yet? And where can I get one?!?!?!?
LOLOL That's right it's a new wildcat. I'm sorry to say you can't get one though.
In an effort to sneak around the looming "sniper rifle" ban (and because I can't afford a .50 BMG) I decided to create the .222 Moose. I made a mold for a 500 grain .22 caliber bullet and necked down a 200 mm cannon shell. Using a length of 12" drill stem 'borrowed' from an oil field I bored a 72" bbl. I won't bore you with the details of fabricating the action but suffice it to say it is a single shot.
(The first model was a blowback semi-auto but it trashed the 1 ton pickup frame I mounted it on.)
The cartridge requires .267 lb.'s of Hodgdon's RETUMBO, so it's not cheap to shoot. But the expected accuracy should go out to twenty five miles (although the range is considerably further). Problems develop at lower altitudes with "meteor" effect. The atmosphere is so dense below 3,000 ft that even brass solids tend to 'flame out' before reaching targets further than ten miles.
I say 'expected accuracy' because I have yet to find quality optics that can overcome the mirages that occur when looking through more than fifteen miles of air, even at below freezing ambient temp's. It's also hard to find friends willing to spot targets more than twenty miles from the firing line. They complain that it's "boring" and "when do I get to shoot it?". I don't know why they can't see that with the driving times involved no one would get more than one shot per day. Where's the fun in that?
But I digress. Your question was "Where do I get one?".
So far my applications for an FFL have been rejected (what gets me is the unprofessional manner they use to notify me ... "Don't bother us again." " Where did you get our address?" "If you send us another application we'll send a SWAT team to your mother's house." ) Sooooo...I can't make one for you. I understand Saddam has an expert, or did, in long range guns but I think he only works with rather large calibers, ten inches and up. But with a little patience and some basic hand tools you can make your own .222 Moose.
My next wildcat is going to be a 1.357 Buffler Magnum pushing a 2,200 grain lead wadcutter out to a mile at over 3,000 ft. p. second. A short range bison bowling round.
Just watch. Some dimbulb at ATF will see this and I'll be getting a 4:AM wake up call tomorrow morning.