Lately I have been churning through 'Rifle' magazine from issue #1 as leant to me by a senior club member.
In the Sept/oct 1979 edition there is an article by Gil Sengel about his wildcat .30-78 single shot cartridge. Everything about the article leads me to believe that THIS was the inspiration for the late Derek Taylor who, with the help of a friend, built my Pygmy.
Cheers from New Zealand
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Ok Jeff,
It’s been long enough that I’m going to have to go reread the early stuff on CB about the Pygmy to refresh my memory. I DO recall that you’ve had a great deal of fun and used it to very good effect in the bush!
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In the early 1970's there was a wildcat cast bullet cartridge call the 30 Johnson Special. It was basically a 30/30 case run into a 32/40 die to straighten the body and cut off at 1.6 inches. rim was left alone for single shots, or turned to 30/06 for bolt guns. Not many were made as at the time the only game it was shot in was schutzen.
I own the original chamber reamer and throating reamer if anyone is interested to building a modern version. I also having loading data. Ed Harris has shot this rifle in the old days.
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or this idea from the late 1940's by some obscure gunsmith...
Shorter neck but it's a short Krag case in .30 caliber.
"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!
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I wish you guys, or anyone, would post more of this stuff about such calibers, I love it.
Mashburn
David a. Cogburn
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