Mountain Arms Wildcat Complete Specs and Full Gun Specifications

This Wildcat is a pivoting-barrel single shot .22 rimfire rifle made by Precision Industries Arms Division of Ozark Mountain Arms in Ozark, MO. It was designed by Harold Rau, founder of the Rau Arms Corporation in 1969. The design of the Wildcat rifle was heavily influenced by the Garcia Bronco rifle and the Hamilton rifle. Rau Arms made under 3,000 of them from 1969 to 1970. They made a blued Model 500 with walnut stock and a chromed Model 600 Deluxe with a mahagony stock insert. In August 1970 Harold Rau sold his company to Precision Industries a.k.a. Mountain Arms that continue to make this rifle under Rau brand until 1975. From 1975 to 1978 Precision Industries aka Mountain Arms made around 6,240 Wildcat rifles with plastic instead of wood buttstock inserts under the Mountain Arms brand. The Wildcat is chambered to shoot .22 LR, long and short ammo. It has a skeletonized buttstock filled with wood. On the right side of the receiver it has a cocking knob and on the left side it has an operating handle to open the action. The barrel is twisted away from the receiver, and the forearm is pulled rearward to actuate the extractor. A conventional push button safety blocks the trigger. The right side of the receiver is marked: "Precision Ind. Arms Division, OZ. Mo., U.S.A."