It is becoming more and more popular due to its ballistics and more importantly, the military recently adopting it as a round. It's not going away anytime soon.
"It's not going away anytime soon." Yup and neither has the Ackley Improves, the .270 Winchester, the .270 WSM, the 7mm ReMag, the .308 Winchester, the 30-06, the 338-06s, the .338WinMag, the .358 Winchester, and the 35 Whelens to name only but a few! Not one of these cartridges/calibers are the shoot all, the kill all, hunt and shoot anything DRT hunt dinosaurs with. And.....each one has a place in the shooting and the hunting world, there's not one that stands totally on its own in the shooting community! The government also adopted the .38 Special, the .45 ACP, the 9mm Luger, the .223, the .308 and the 30-06 to name a few, that does not make it the only cartridge in the world to hunt with and to shoot accurately with. I think that what some of the readers are trying to say is that we are not disputing that the CM is a good caliber, what we are saying is that it is not always the best cartridge/caliber for "everything" that is already out there. And.....it never will be! There are too many calibers that shoot as close to, as well as, or better than the CM's capabilities.