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<blockquote data-quote="Batsin" data-source="post: 2970321" data-attributes="member: 126867">It is lack of a perceived market and difficulty of production.&nbsp; Hornady engineers have gone on record saying they don&#039;t like shoulders sharper than 30°. They say their scrap goes up exponentially.&nbsp;&nbsp; As for the market, they are keenly aware of the failure of the RCM cartridges.&nbsp; RCM cartridges were savaged by reviewers because they were slower than the WSM&#039;s.&nbsp; If you look at the reviews, every one came to that conclusion: velocity was king.&nbsp; The reviewers were also peeved that they could not match the factory performance when handloading.&nbsp; At the time, none of the articles appreciated better feeding, better performance from 20&quot; barrels, and better average accuracy (from the now-standard &quot;match style&quot; chamber).As far as I can tell, every cartridge developed after the 6.5 Creedmoor was optimized for long-range competition* and intended to exceed the long-range performance of existing SAAMI cartridges.&nbsp; A lot more ammo is sold for competition than for hunting and selling ammo is the primary reason for Hornady to develop a cartridge (with the exception of those developed under contract).&nbsp;&nbsp; The .30 cal short magnum requested by the OP would appeal to only a small group of buyers and would be considered by most hunters as having inferior performance to existing .30 cal magnums.*The 6.5 Creedmoor was initially marketed as just a competition cartridge.&nbsp; It was about a year later that Hornady began to produce hunting ammo for it.&nbsp; The 2007 introduction videos only included match ammo and is still on YouTube.&nbsp; The hunting ammo was introduced in 2008 and its video is still available too, FWIW.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Batsin, post: 2970321, member: 126867"] It is lack of a perceived market and difficulty of production. Hornady engineers have gone on record saying they don't like shoulders sharper than 30°. They say their scrap goes up exponentially. As for the market, they are keenly aware of the failure of the RCM cartridges. RCM cartridges were savaged by reviewers because they were slower than the WSM's. If you look at the reviews, every one came to that conclusion: velocity was king. The reviewers were also peeved that they could not match the factory performance when handloading. At the time, none of the articles appreciated better feeding, better performance from 20" barrels, and better average accuracy (from the now-standard "match style" chamber). As far as I can tell, every cartridge developed after the 6.5 Creedmoor was optimized for long-range competition* and intended to exceed the long-range performance of existing SAAMI cartridges. A lot more ammo is sold for competition than for hunting and selling ammo is the primary reason for Hornady to develop a cartridge (with the exception of those developed under contract). The .30 cal short magnum requested by the OP would appeal to only a small group of buyers and would be considered by most hunters as having inferior performance to existing .30 cal magnums. *The 6.5 Creedmoor was initially marketed as just a competition cartridge. It was about a year later that Hornady began to produce hunting ammo for it. The 2007 introduction videos only included match ammo and is still on YouTube. The hunting ammo was introduced in 2008 and its video is still available too, FWIW. [/QUOTE]

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