garyhan
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It is really a little difficult to define when a cartridge becomes obsolete. Is the 8mm Gasser revolver cartridge obsolete? Few have shot or even seen guns chambered for it, but you can still buy new Fiocchi cartridges in this caliber.
I remember a noted gun writer of the time predicting in the 1965 Gun Digest that in civilian circles, a certain cartridge would soon become obsolete due to its many design flaws and inferiority to existing cartridges. That cartridge was the .223 Remington (perhaps you've heard of it?). We have to be careful not to let personal prejudice or preference effect our evaluations of a cartridges fate. When I see wildly sucessful new cartridges, such as the .204 mentioned as headed for the junk pile, I always remember this prophecy of 1965.
gary
I remember a noted gun writer of the time predicting in the 1965 Gun Digest that in civilian circles, a certain cartridge would soon become obsolete due to its many design flaws and inferiority to existing cartridges. That cartridge was the .223 Remington (perhaps you've heard of it?). We have to be careful not to let personal prejudice or preference effect our evaluations of a cartridges fate. When I see wildly sucessful new cartridges, such as the .204 mentioned as headed for the junk pile, I always remember this prophecy of 1965.
gary