Blakefield Wildcat Cartridges

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[txnativegop]

I need help with firearms identification for Blakefield Wildcat cartridges. I found references to 12-cal., 14-cal., and 17-cal., wildcats listed with the name "Blakefield" on the old Qual-Cart site. I know nothing of these cartridges or firearms.

I am hoping there might be a Freeper who has some knowledge of these cartridges and the guns so chambered.

[txnativegop]

Thanks in advance for any help.

[umgud]

Did some searches and nothing came up. There’s lots of .17 cal variants out there, but haven’t heard anything about 12-14 cals.

[txnativegop]

the old Qual-Cart site is the only reference I have ever found either.

that site also listed other really bizarre wildcats:

for example — the 32 S & W Short necked down to 7mm

for the life of me, I have no Earthly idea what such a pipsqueak cartridge could be used for.

[Deaf Smith]

Searches only found you posting this 20 hours ago. ??

Are these shells you found in a old house? Storage unit? Great aunt Gertrude's house?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Don’t be silly. Everyone knows Corn Pop used that specific wildcat cartridge in his zip gun.

[the_daug]

I thought this Wildcat shell

[txnativegop]

I copied the page years ago and I have finally found the time to get back to researching the various listings. I just hoped that there might be a Freeper or two that might remember them.

[txnativegop]

these are wildcats, not commercial production beyond Qual-Cart.com from many years ago, I have never found any other listing for them. It is possible they were from a custom smith from the ‘00’s or so. But I do not know.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Link at the Qual-Cart site? I’ve heard of .10 Squirrel and .12 Squirrel. Nothing about Blakefield.

[LegendHasIt]

I never heard of them...

I expect that if anyone knows about them, someone here would:

http://www.saubier.com/forum.html

[txnativegop]

They went out of business for a few years starting in 2008, or rather I thought they had, apparently they are still in business and this is the link to their product catalog and the blakefield wildcats are not listed. http://www.qual-cart.com/catalog.pdf

[txnativegop]

thanks, I give them a look.

[txnativegop]

let me guess 4 gauge, 4 inch shell?

[IndispensableDestiny]

I think you mean Brakefield. Here is a photo of a .17 Brakefield:

[txnativegop]

Well that would answer a lot questions. Thank you. What is the parent cartridge (if you know it)?

[IndispensableDestiny]

Don’t know. All I know it was designed by a guy named Frank Brakefield.

[txnativegop]

Okay, thank you for the information, the copy of the old Qual-Cart page I saved has a family of cartridges named Blakefield, I assume it was a typographical error.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Dies for .14 Brakefield, also .17 Brakefield:

http://www.ch4d.com/products/dies/caliber-list?page=23

[txnativegop]

thank you for the link.