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<blockquote data-quote="Muddyboots" data-source="post: 2607556" data-attributes="member: 63925"><p>The whole issue comes down to the failure of firearm manufacturers to historically step away from "safe" standard marketing of cartridges. When I mean safe, I mean middle road thinking and not any forethought to how the rifle market is changing with new products that provide shooters more technology to shoot further more accurately. I seriously wonder how competent their R&D and marketing groups were to interact with each other. It was like old Henry Ford adage "they can have any color they want as long as it is black".</p><p></p><p>It seems that there is a new mindset out there but unfortunately will not benefit historical cartridges that could have been significantly better. As result, so called new cartridges are being released to "fix" the "defects" of past cartridge design. </p><p></p><p>So the marketing is the new cartridges "out perform" the "old"cartridges in factory standard configurations. Which is absolutely true for most part. </p><p></p><p>This is not a bad thing to pull new shooters into our sport with the "marketing" hype. I was also thinking how many standard cartridge donor actions are now available from these new shooters that want to "step up" to these new cartridges! So this is a good result too!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>Ok, I need another cup of coffee from wandering into la la land.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muddyboots, post: 2607556, member: 63925"] The whole issue comes down to the failure of firearm manufacturers to historically step away from "safe" standard marketing of cartridges. When I mean safe, I mean middle road thinking and not any forethought to how the rifle market is changing with new products that provide shooters more technology to shoot further more accurately. I seriously wonder how competent their R&D and marketing groups were to interact with each other. It was like old Henry Ford adage "they can have any color they want as long as it is black". It seems that there is a new mindset out there but unfortunately will not benefit historical cartridges that could have been significantly better. As result, so called new cartridges are being released to "fix" the "defects" of past cartridge design. So the marketing is the new cartridges "out perform" the "old"cartridges in factory standard configurations. Which is absolutely true for most part. This is not a bad thing to pull new shooters into our sport with the "marketing" hype. I was also thinking how many standard cartridge donor actions are now available from these new shooters that want to "step up" to these new cartridges! So this is a good result too!😂 Ok, I need another cup of coffee from wandering into la la land. [/QUOTE]
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