Wildey's Here by Wildey Moore

Author:Wildey Moore [Moore, Wildey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781728331614
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 13

DEATH WISH III AND THE .475 MAGNUM

After that meeting, we proceeded apace building a new company to produce the Revelation pistols. As I mentioned, the company’s name was BPM Joint Venture: Bennett, Pennington and Moore.

Pete Hylenski and I had little trouble getting that project off the ground because of all the experience we gained working on the Survivor. In many ways, we had made most of the mistakes there were to make, and so we had a better handle on what not to do. Not that it was easy, but we had “been there and done that,” so to speak, which gave us a clearer view of how to go about it. Be that as it may, I’m mindful of Murphy’s law. If things could go wrong, they will.

One major change we made between the Survivor and the Revelation pistol was that we decided on chambering the Revelation in .475 Magnum right off the bat. The Revelation can change calibers by simply changing barrels; and barrel installation is the same in the Revelation as in the Dan Wesson revolver, but with the added benefit of having the chamber inside of the barrel. We developed the new round ourselves by cutting off Winchester .284 cartridges. The .284 had a rebated rim enabling us to have a fatter case, and therefore a larger powder capacity and still maintain the .45 Win Mag or .30/06 rim size. The 284 was an excellent cartridge Winchester had developed in the 1960’S, but it never took off commercially, though I believe it really should have. We cut those .284 Winchesters down to .45 magnum lengths and then reamed the brass out so that we had an eleven-thousandths wall thickness. This gave the round an internal diameter large enough to accept a bullet of .475 – a happy coincidence – and resulted in a much more powerful cartridge that developed reasonable pressures, giving good muzzle velocities, and energies with a larger projectile. We decided on developing bullets ranging from 230 grain to 350 grain. The case diameter in the .475WM was increased by twenty-five one-thousandths of an inch over the .45 Win Mag. This amounted to a significant increase in powder capacity that proves out in ballistics.

Once we established the .475 bore, we worked with Andy Hill at Hawk bullet in New Jersey to develop our line of bullets. Simultaneous with the cartridge development, we built two functioning prototypes of the Revelation chambered for what we called the “.475 Wildey Magnum.” Not only would the new round separate us from the Survivor chambered for the .45 Win Mag, it would also distinguish the Revelation, along with other patentable features, as the largest caliber pistol in the world at the time.

As we completed the working prototypes and were tooling for production, we received a phone call from a very unlikely source, to say the least. Linda took the call at the BPM offices in Connecticut. By that point I had completely shut the Survivor and Wildey

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