Thread: Help wanted to identify this 22-303 wildcat

I'm looking at buying a rifle chambered for this 303-22 / 22-303 Wildcat

Unfortunately this looks to be the most improved of all the 22-303 Wildcats I have ever seen or found on line

Here is a fired case beside a 303 round



And here is a rough drawing of the case dimensions



I'm guessing it might be a 22-303 Improved 40º
Which is likely as big as you can go on 303 brass
Neck is short but still one caliber long

Has anyone got any images, specs or data on a case like this ?
I see mention of it only on line but no illustrations

303British.com mention it
It might be in the book "THE ACCURATE LEE ENFIELD "

The rifle comes with some brass and dies
My first thoughts were it will be a barrel burner !
But well I could have fun burning out the barrel anyway and then re barrel it to something a little more sensible

Looking at the case capacity it seems to be slightly larger than the 220 Swift
And I checked with powder and it has 20% more capacity than the 22-250

The rifle will cope just fine because it is the best rifle action ever built.

Next time I visit the gent I will try and prise it out of his hands and give it a test run
And check the barrel twist to see how big a bullet weight it might cope with.

I think when this rifle was built it was all about speed because pre range finders and ballistic calculators and dial up scopes