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The standard .25-35 Winchester load is about three times as powerful in muzzle energy as the .25-20 Winchester, a cartridge of similar bore size earlier introduced by Winchester. [3] The .25-35 was valued for its speed, trajectory, and lower recoil. [4] It was a popular round in the Winchester Model 1885 High Wall single-shot rifle.
Parker Otto Ackley (May 25, 1903 – August 23, 1989) [1] was an American gunsmith, barrel maker, author, columnist, and wildcat cartridge developer. The Ackley Improved family of wildcat cartridges are designed to be easily made by rechambering existing firearms, and fireforming the ammunition to decrease body taper and increase shoulder angle, resulting in a higher case capacity.
The .219 Zipper is the parent case of the .219 Donaldson Wasp, and P.O. Ackley created the .219 Zipper Improved in 1937. Leslie Lindahl's Chucker and Super-chucker and "wildcat" case modifications by Hervey Lovell, Lysle Kilbourne, and W. F. Vickery offered similarly superior ballistics in stronger single-shot and bolt actions.
It lacks the power of the bigger .25-06 Remington but provides less noise and less recoil. Performance is very close to the .257 Roberts . Arguably it is a better overall cartridge for hunting than the more popular .30-30 , but in recent years has lost ground to the .257 Roberts and flatter-shooting 6mm cartridges such as the .243 Winchester .
The .17 Ackley Bee is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge named after its designer, P.O. Ackley, and is a .218 Bee case necked down to .17 caliber with a sharper shoulder and less body taper. Being a rimmed case, it was popular in single shot rifles such as the Martini Cadet and Low Wall Winchester . [ 2 ]
Reloading dies for the round are readily available. The .225 Winchester's case is a parent case for some of SSK Industries ' [ 3 ] popular line of JDJ cartridges designed by J.D. Jones , chosen for its strength and semi-rimmed design which makes it well suited for use in break-open actions.
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He then changed the 35-degree shoulder to 40-degrees and the .280 Ackley wildcat was born. Redding various old names: "The older wildcat has several names including .280 Ackley Improved 40°, .280 Rem Improved 40°, .280 Imp 40°, .280 Ackley, .280 Rem Imp, and more."