Wildcat appreciation thread

[Tentman]

Here's another one to think about. I have a Weatherby Varmintmaster that just might make it here from the UK after 3 years.

It's a 22-250 and supposedly the Varmintmaster mag box is 2.5" long- so a very strong miniature MkV action with a .473 boltface Being a 22-250 bought cheap sight unseen there's certainly a possibility that the barrel is toast. If it is toast then there's the delicious choice of what to rebarrel it in.

A fast twist 22-250 would work, as would a 22 Creedmoor, but both might be somewhat hamstrung by the mag length with heavies. One consideration will be the feed rails, 22-250 has quite a bit of taper, and "conversions" from it seem to have struck problems in the past according to some accounts. So what else is there . . . A reamer run in short ?