Well some of you might not like the "new magnums", But I don't like the "old magnums". I have never liked a belted case on anything. Had a 7mm mag once and sold it. Now use a .270 for just about everything. Also what if this is your first gun. Should everyone use a 30-06 and call it good. Yes the 30-06 will kill anything out there, but that would get pretty boring wouldn't it. I would rather get very similar ballistics out of a short action rifle then use a long action belted magnum. The rifle is lighter, cycles faster, burns less powder, and head spaces on the shoulder instead of the belt.

In the same respect I guess that we should all be driving cars from the 50's. How many of you have a truck or car that was made after 1998? You are typing on computers to say that the old tried and true is just fine. Just call up your buddy on the phone and talk there, but oh yeah wait, that too was a new invention at one time also. Heck maybe we should go back before we even had guns, cars, and computers and just hunt with spears, after all they have been killing animals for tens of thousands of years. If that's not tried and true then I don't know what is!