I like the looks of the new 375 Ruger. I would like to neck it down to 7mm. Should equal or slightly surpass the 7mm mag without the pesky "belt". Is it justifiable? probably not but thats the Wildcatter in me, I guess.

Ahhh the joys of new cartridges. If this continues I am going to have to buy ANOTHER gun safe and put up ANOTHER shelf in my loading room for all the new dies.

Well, we DO have those "hi-energy" , "lite Magnums", etc., loads from Federal and Hornady. I believe there is supposed to be something special about the way they are loaded too.

Stalkingbear is working on it. He's already made the dies I believe.

Will they kill anything my 300 Wby won't already kill? I've also got a 222 Rem and a 30-06. I probably won't have to sit out any hunting seasons.

I do love reading about them, though. There are a lot of days and nights between hunting and fishing season.

The goal is of course to sell more product. They certainly won't make anything any deader.. They have a winning pattern though, come out with something different, tack MAGNUM on the end and stay back from the doors.

I realize that companies have to keep generating something new to stay in business. But I have to remember Herter's, an outfit that was "ALWAYS FIRST WITH EVERYTHING NEW", and they went belly-up!

I see a point with a few of them...The 375 Ruger makes sense to me. The 204 ruger and the 358 STA(mentioned in this thread, designed a long time ago by Layne Simpson, dunno if there are new rifles coming out in this) really are good guns too IMO. A commercialized 35 mag would be the cats meow IMO for the larger NA game.

On another note the 30 TC is the dumbest thing I have seen in my entire life.

The 30 and 7mm(.284) cartridge selections are over-flooded.

The 325 WSM and 338 Federal are OK but what would have been wrong with pushing the 8x57??? Mine loves lots of different loads, current load is a 200 Nosler Part going 2700. Moose, bear, deer, whatever beware!

This says it all!

Mike

The more that they keep coming out with new chamberings, the more that I am skeptical of anything being brought out in the last 10 years. Now I know that the 308, 30-06, and all of the old tried and true rounds will be around for many years to come, but these new ones seem to only be a flash in the pan. But then again, I just dont have enough money burning a hole in my pocket to justify buying a new gun just because it is the hot new thing. You just dont need a new ultra short rocket launching magnum to kill deer with lol, or even an elk or moose for that matter. Also, if the new things take "special powder" to acheive these hot new ballistics, then why do I want to be tied into buying only store bought ammo to be able to shoot my new toy? I dont know about you, but I just cannot stand paying $30-$50 a box of ammo.