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<p>Charles Newton is the Wildcatter par excellence.</p><p><I><a href="https://ammo.com/articles/wildcat-rounds-wildcatting-customized-cartridges">Wildcatters are a passionate subset of firearms enthusiasts</a> who develop custom-designed cartridges that are not mass produced, but instead made by individual shooters to serve a specific need that is not already met by the market.</I></p><p>Wildcatters live on the edge of innovation and experimentation. Charles Newton achieved the ultimate goal of wildcatting when his self-created rounds were officially manufactured by Savage Arms. Newton went from attorney to creator of the .22 Savage and .250 Savage, and eventual founder of Newton Arms.<p>
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Learn how it happened with  <a href="https://ammo.com/articles/charles-newton-wildcatter-created-22-savage-250-savage-forgotten-history">Charles Newton: The Forgotten History of the Wildcatter Who Created the .22 and .250 Savage</a> at <a href="https://ammo.com/articles/charles-newton-wildcatter-created-22-savage-250-savage-forgotten-history">Ammo.com</a>.</p>