People are talking about the failure of the Ruger 204
What people? Is the .204 a failing round? There's a lot of new and fairly new cartridges around these days. A very few are going quite strong and most seem to gain limited support. From what I've heard .204 seems to be doing moderately well. Do you have information to the contrary?
They deserve it because THEY THOUGHT they could STEAL all of Kindler's work on the fabulous 20's at the Woodchuck Den and pay him no Homage or $ .
Who deserves it?
Who is Kindler? What's the Woodchuck Den?
We're going to need some supporting info here.
Are you saying that Ruger and Hornady owed a fellow named Kindler credit for developing the cartridge? Do you have information about his relationship to those companies and why they would have owed him something? Or that they didn't pay him something they did owe him?
I am sorry,but is this the state of American business ? I think it is !!!
Hornady and Ruger have developed several cartridges together. But necking up or down one cartridge to make another cartridge has been going on forever, with extremely overlapping characteristics. The list of which wildcatters stole/borrowed an idea from someone else or simply reinvented something that someone else had already developed is unfathomably long.
Because ,IF they had asked his advice (Tactical 20 was his ), I think it would be different .
Ok, what would be different about it? And if his Tactical 20 is different from the .204, how is it reasonable to claim that they owe him something for the design?
There really isn't enough difference between cartridges to make them easily patent-able. Read this:
http://www.alloutdoor.com/2016/04/12/can-wildcatter-patent-cartridge-design/
And in the end the only real benefit you can derive from "inventing" (or re-inventing...there's little actually new under the sun) a cartridge comes from your ability to market the idea to a major manufacturer who can drive that product into the hands of thousands of shooters. Otherwise, it's done for the pure love of the hobby. If you're inventing a "best" new cartridge (by modifying other cartridges, of course) and waiting for the royalties to roll in, that's going to be a fool's errand.
IF a major manufacturer decides that something like you've come up with is a hot seller, all they'd have to do is change the shoulder angle, or the length of the neck, or use a slightly different parent case, and they've got different design and you have even less than no claim on them.
ps-he invented about 5 twenties
Cool.
Is Small Caliber news still printed ?
Don't know. I haven't heard of it before.
Hope I have not ruffled any feathers.
Certainly not. We just want to make sure we know what you're upset about.
