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unusual facts about Wildcat cartridge



.50 Alaskan

Alaskan is a wildcat cartridge developed by Harold Johnson and Harold Fuller of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska in the 1950s.

9×25mm Dillon

The 9x25mm Dillon, also known as the 9x25 Dillon by Dillon Precision, is a pistol wildcat cartridge developed by employees working at Dillon Precision for use in USPSA/IPSC Open guns.

Sporterising

SMLE Mk III rifles, in particular, were popular for sporterisation in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, with many being converted to wildcat calibers such as .303/25 owing to both the difficulties of importing foreign-made rifles (due largely to economic factors), and also restrictions in the state of New South Wales on the ownership of firearms "of a military caliber", interpreted to mean the .303


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