In 1871 the Swiss army began considering new designs to replace their aging percussion pistols. The design submitted by Belgian designers Chamelot and Devligne was accepted over designs submitted by Galand of France and Smith & Wesson. Modification were made to it by Major Rudolf Schmidt and the new pistol was designated the Ordonanzrevolver Modell 1872.
Introduced in 1992 and was originally designed by Mike Hill. Dan Cooper (President of Cooper Arms) further refined the cartridge and chambering to put it into production in the Cooper Model 38 action. The .17 CCM is a necked down 22 CCM and is capable of propelling a 20 grain .172” dia. bullet at 2,900 fps with 373 ft. lbs. of energy. This is round was designed for varmint hunting has a flat trajectory out to 200 yards.
INTRODUCING 007 THE NEW 375 CALIBER/2.007″ CARTRIDGE BASED ON 50BMG 375 – 50 cal wildcat 007 DETAILS
Here’s a great video by the people at Vortex with the new 6.5mm BC wildcat they’ve developed.
RCC Brass™ manufactures the highest quality brass cartridges available. All our cartridges are manufacture on CNC lathes and mills using our proprietary process using the highest quality brass alloys available. Built into all our case is our patent pending ATB™ chamber typically increase the velocity of a projectile, while using less powder, and increases the lifespan of our brass. We custom fit our brass to you chamber and can do customized headstamps too.
Here’s a great article by Phil Massaro of Gun Digest The Rare Pleasure Of Obscure Cartridges
We sent .375 Chey-Tac brass to Pete Contacos and Wess Lipka for their own personal load development with great results. Wess was shooting a competitor’s brass and was able to get decent results. Hearing about our patent pending ATB® internal cartridge chamber design he wanted to see what all the talk was about. Here’s what happened:
Here’s a link to a detailed article about the .375 EnABELR.