ORIGINAL: TurfBoy

My understading of it is not the pressure in the reciever, but in the chamber. If you use the same size barrel blank and put a short, fat chamber in it, you make the chamber wall thickness much thinner. i.e. less steel.

Also, weren't the short magnums made to duplicate the long action magnums performance in a cartridge that fits into a short action bolt gun? If you get the same performance out of a 300 Mag as a 300 wsm, what is the difference? In an encore, you don't have to worry about the action length. Am I wrong? Please let me know if I am.

ORIGINAL: Rammer

Turfboy hit the nail right on the head!