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Long Range Elk Gun, What caliber you would choose?
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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2431205" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>QUOTE: America... kinda saw its main push of the belted magnum in 1956 which was with the 458 Win Mag, later sales and marketing liked the idea of the Mag belt and started popping out cartridges like the .338 Win Mag, .264 Win Mag, .338 Win Mag, 7 Rem Mag... and we can include Norma in this one, magnum sales skyrocketed. Inter the .300 Win Mag and all the others coming off the .300 H&H case, and we can include Weatherby in this one</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> I may be wrong but Winchester wanted a magnum cartridge at 30-06 length. I think that the 300 WM came first......the .264, .338, and .458 were all based off of the .300 WM case. memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2431205, member: 75451"] QUOTE: America... kinda saw its main push of the belted magnum in 1956 which was with the 458 Win Mag, later sales and marketing liked the idea of the Mag belt and started popping out cartridges like the .338 Win Mag, .264 Win Mag, .338 Win Mag, 7 Rem Mag... and we can include Norma in this one, magnum sales skyrocketed. Inter the .300 Win Mag and all the others coming off the .300 H&H case, and we can include Weatherby in this one I may be wrong but Winchester wanted a magnum cartridge at 30-06 length. I think that the 300 WM came first......the .264, .338, and .458 were all based off of the .300 WM case. memtb [/QUOTE]
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