{"id":22988,"date":"2021-06-02T17:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22988"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:46:52","slug":"things-i-did-not-know-8-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22988","title":{"rendered":"Things I did not know. (#8 in a series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a caliber called &#8211; I kid you not &#8211; &#8220;22 Wampus Kitty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No, there isn&#8217;t a Wikipedia entry for it, which makes it an ideal hipster caliber for varmint hunting. (&#8220;I shoot gophers with a rifle chambered in 22 Wampus Kitty. It&#8217;s a pretty obscure caliber. You&#8217;ve probably never heard of it.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I found out about this because MidwayUSA actually lists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwayusa.com\/reloading-dies\/br?cid=702&#038;targetLocation=%2F_%2FN-702%2B4294901402%3FNp%3D2%26Nr%3DAND%2528p_visible%253A1%252Ccustomertypeid%253A38%2529%26Nrpp%3D24%26Ns%3Dp_metric_sales_velocity%257C1%26Ntpc%3D1%26Ntpr%3D1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reloading dies<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m slightly tempted to get <a href=\"https:\/\/beatonfirearms.com.au\/semi-custom-winchester-m70-in-22-wampus-kitty\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something chambered in 22 Wampus Kitty<\/a>, but: not only would I have to reload it, the process of reloading is complicated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/beatonfirearms.com.au\/post_blog\/wildcat-cartridges-to-improve-your-rifle\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22 Wampus kitty cases are formed by necking down a 243 Winchester case (which everyone makes) to take 22 calibre projectiles (front picture), and then blow out to \u201cAckley\u201d body taper and shoulder angle (rear picture).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stick with .221 Remington Fireball for my hipster cartridge needs, thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a caliber called &#8211; I kid you not &#8211; &#8220;22 Wampus Kitty&#8221;. No, there isn&#8217;t a Wikipedia entry for it, which makes it an ideal hipster caliber for varmint hunting. (&#8220;I shoot gophers with a rifle chambered in 22 Wampus Kitty. It&#8217;s a pretty obscure caliber. You&#8217;ve probably never heard of it.&#8221;) I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22989,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988\/revisions\/22989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}