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Where is the 300WSM brass
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2340734" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Obscurity is relative - I'm surprised the Alpha made a 7mm-08 before a 6.5-284 as they seem to be heavily focused on the 6mm calibers and Palma, yet they overlooked one of the F-Class greats for what I consider to be a run of the mill hunting case. Probably a matter of the 6.5-284 fading in popularity against the Creedmoor and 6mm renaissances, so at the time they entered the market arguably one of the most famous calibers of the pre-long range craze just flat wasn't on their list.</p><p></p><p>Kind of the same hole the RUMs fall into - great rounds, still new relatively speaking, but also outclassed by more efficient designs since everything has been changing so fast for the last 10-15 years. The RUMs were the last gasp of the "make the case as big as possible" phase right before the "now stick the longest bullet you can find as little as possible into neck" phase. The 300 Norma evolution to similar performance of the 300 RUM is proof that overall length is basically capped at 4" by common action length, so case heads and bodies are getting wider to account for the cases getting shorter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2340734, member: 116181"] Obscurity is relative - I'm surprised the Alpha made a 7mm-08 before a 6.5-284 as they seem to be heavily focused on the 6mm calibers and Palma, yet they overlooked one of the F-Class greats for what I consider to be a run of the mill hunting case. Probably a matter of the 6.5-284 fading in popularity against the Creedmoor and 6mm renaissances, so at the time they entered the market arguably one of the most famous calibers of the pre-long range craze just flat wasn't on their list. Kind of the same hole the RUMs fall into - great rounds, still new relatively speaking, but also outclassed by more efficient designs since everything has been changing so fast for the last 10-15 years. The RUMs were the last gasp of the "make the case as big as possible" phase right before the "now stick the longest bullet you can find as little as possible into neck" phase. The 300 Norma evolution to similar performance of the 300 RUM is proof that overall length is basically capped at 4" by common action length, so case heads and bodies are getting wider to account for the cases getting shorter. [/QUOTE]
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