I remember when the whole short fat Magnum craze was ignited. Virtually overnight anything and everything with a belted case automatically sucked. And you were clueless as a shooter if you owned one. Even dumber if you attempted to reload for one. The belt on those cases were suddenly responsible for everything from poor chambering, to infertility in middle aged women. And those horribly long Magnum actions... What a disaster! Moving that bolt an extra half an inch back and forth was nothing but shooter designed insanity.
Then there was the whole issue of the much greater degree of accuracy obtainable with the short powder column, that was simply impossible to achieve in a long cased belted Magnum. Just what were these idiots thinking back in the 60's, when they came out with these long, silly belted cases, which served no applicable purpose? If you had a belted Magnum you had better sell it, and sell it fast. Because with what the short fat Magnums were offering, if you waited you would have to give it away. Rick Jameson sat back in his easy chair, smoking Cuban cigars, sipping Napoleon Brandy, enjoying his new found retirement royalties. All provided to him by Winchester, that would change the face of shooting forever.
Fast forward to today. You have to hunt for ammo for short fat Mags. And when you find it choices are limited at best, downright poor in fact. The Remington SAUM's are all but obsolete. And most every rifle in short fat chambering's today are either collecting dust on dealers racks, or else being offered heavily discounted. And silly add on's to these disasters like the .223 WSSM, and .325 WSM are more scarce than a black at a KKK meeting........ And now we have the 6.5 Creedmoor. Did someone hit the Replay button?
