WestKentucky
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I'm going out on a very short limb and saying the 22/9mm thing known as the 22tcm will be in this category soon. If lw makes a glock barrel I will buy a glock for the first time.
How about the Herters .401 PowerMag!
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=745592&highlight=pedersenhttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.276_Pedersen
Forgot to mention the .276 Pedersen.
In fact there was a long, very detailed and informative thread on it a few months back. I'll dig it up and link to it for those who are curious.
I generally agree with that. Anything developed today is more or less redundant with something built yesterday, at least in the hunting/self defense categories. I suppose the 5.56 could be improved upon. But it has all been done before.Probably the reason most flop is there is just not that much improvement in cartridges left. Americans really haven't accepted anything cobbled up on the 6.5 mm caliber. I really thought the 260 Remington would have been the prom queen but it and the 25-06 kinda fizzled after a few years. It's just too hard to beat the rifle cartridges developed
70+ years ago. Unless somebody just wants "sumpthin diffrent" there's really not much of a market. Plus...I can't imagine there's just a lot of interest for FFL holders out in hunting country to supply a WSSM when a good old Remington 7mm mag or 300 Winchester mag has worked...and will work and no new young wonder banger gonna motivate a working man...rancher or hunter to throw down a $1000.00 for a rifle rig he might not be able to find factory ammo for three years after he's done it.
I understand Remington will bring any wildcat under the Remington brand if somebody will pay for 500,000 rounds to be made-up and will chamber rifles for it. Doesn't make for a lotta factory support after that.
Wow, the consensus certainly seems to be the WSSM; rare agreement around here . It truly did what no rounds before could, long action power in a short action frame --but no one bothered to verify the short actions could handle the redonkulous bolt thrust of such a fat cartridge base, so its capabilities ended up limited even if its burn efficiency was improved.
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.348 Win didn't exactly knock um dead, except in the field. I still hunt with one when the winters get snowy.