It had to have been in Guns&Ammo. I have a long standing subscription to Shooting Times and I don't recall seeing anything about it in ST. I went to the Remington site and couldn't find anything there. They did have a poll set up where you could vote.

There was a write-up on the 8x57 Mauser some time ago but I don't think it was talking about it in the context being the new Classic chambering. It was just an information article of the pro's and con's, etc. I don't have time to go through them right now to see.

i have one in a CZ VZ24 fine caliber. unfortunatly it is rather expensive to shoot.

off the record i would rather see the gun chambered in the 35rem this year instead

Quilly! you missed that one it was the classic for 1988. A few more past ones are 8MM Rem Mag 300 H&H, 375 H&H 350 Mag, 264 Win Mag 220 Swift and 6MM Remington. From 78 to 85 they chambered it in 22-250, 243, 6mm,7mm Mag 270 and 30-06. From 81 to present they just selected one caliber each year I started out collecting them but ran on to hard time and had to sell most of them. My wife latched on to the 250-3000 though and it ain't going anywhere. She told me if she ever goes to the cabnet to get it, it better be there.

1981 7mm Mauser (7 x 57 mm)
1982 .257 Roberts
1983 .300 H&H Magnum
1984 .250-3000 Savage
1985 .350 Remington Magnum
1986 .264 Win. Magnum
1987 .338 Win. Magnum
1988 .35 Whelen
1989 .300 Wby. Mag.
1990 .25-06 Remington
1991 7mm Wby. Mag.
1992 .220 Swift
1993 .222 Remington
1994 6.5 x 55mm Swedish
1995 .300 Win. Magnum
1996 .375 H&H Magnum
1997 .280 Remington
1998 8mm Remington Magnum
1999 .17 Remington
2000 .223 Remington
2001 7mm-08 Remington
2002 .221 Remington Fireball
2003 .300 Savage