I had a request from one of our European members who collects brass for examples of a couple of my wildcat cartridges. I decided to track down all of the little devils for him, and here they are: From the left .577 VSRE, .505 SRE. .416 MRE, .375 LRE and .450 C&W. All but the .450 are 2.500" long and were designed to work through a standard length action.

Only the .505 has actually been to Africa, but it certainly proved itself: one black rhino, three elephants and five Cape buffalo, using a 570 grain Kynoch solid at 2150 fps.

The .450 was intended to be the replacement for the host of then unavailable British double rifle cartridges which fired a 500 grain bullet at 2150 fps. It was simply the .375 H&H (flanged) opened up to accept a .458" bullet, representing a sort of rimmed .450 Watts, providing a lower pressure, rimmed alternative to the .458 Winchester Magnum. Krieghoff actually built me a rifle in that caliber, which arrived too late for my last African trip.