My r3eactiuon to the sporterization of this round is the same one Elmer Keith had when Remington brought out the 8mm Rem. mag: "What's it good for?"

To state that it kills deer just as well as the .257 Roberts pretty much says it all! We've had the Roberts since about 1930, and it has always has been a great dual-purpose deer & varmint cartridge. And I can see the need to develop a round for the M16 rifle platform that has more stopping power than the 5.56mm. But to make a hunting round out of it gives us nothing we haven't had since the early days of the last century. I'd personally prefer to see CZ put the .250 Savage into a platform like the 527 carbine, instead!