Test firing the Winchester wildcat with the SBI 597 adapter.
The winchester wildcat is unfortunate that they didn't carry forward their unique wildcat magazine into higher capacity. As it is compatible and uses standard Ruger 10/22 magazines for 10+ capacity. Which for Canada means the Wildcat doesn't natively allow for 10+ magazines due to the Ruger magazine rule.
This is really only for Canada, but I wanted to see and prove that the SBI 597 adapter works in the Winchester wildcat and can provide greater than 10 round capacity. This isn't a long term indicator of reliability or anything but wanted to show off video evidence as there have been people saying it works, but its 2026 everyone has a camera now so I decided to share some video.
Time will tell to show how good the SBI 597 adapter and the 597 magazines are, but they aren't terrible so far. I didn't have a lot of time to test as it was raining buckets and I was really wet.
This video the 2nd magazine had 2 failures to feed, where basically the round was halfway out of the magazine and the bolt didn't properly strip it out to feed. I only loaded the magazines to 20 because it gets really hard to push the rounds in after 20.
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u/chillyrabbit 27d ago
Test firing the Winchester wildcat with the SBI 597 adapter.
The winchester wildcat is unfortunate that they didn't carry forward their unique wildcat magazine into higher capacity. As it is compatible and uses standard Ruger 10/22 magazines for 10+ capacity. Which for Canada means the Wildcat doesn't natively allow for 10+ magazines due to the Ruger magazine rule.
This is really only for Canada, but I wanted to see and prove that the SBI 597 adapter works in the Winchester wildcat and can provide greater than 10 round capacity. This isn't a long term indicator of reliability or anything but wanted to show off video evidence as there have been people saying it works, but its 2026 everyone has a camera now so I decided to share some video.
Time will tell to show how good the SBI 597 adapter and the 597 magazines are, but they aren't terrible so far. I didn't have a lot of time to test as it was raining buckets and I was really wet.
This video the 2nd magazine had 2 failures to feed, where basically the round was halfway out of the magazine and the bolt didn't properly strip it out to feed. I only loaded the magazines to 20 because it gets really hard to push the rounds in after 20.