Short and super short magnums stink!

hughes1

Call me old fashioned, but every time I pickup a gun magazine and there is an article about short or super short magnums and I cringe. Why you ask, because I love the weapons I have and I don't want to have to start all over with new ones. A new cartridge every once in awhile is fine, but this seems more like a cartridge revolution with the manufacturers toting an improved (short) cartridge for every caliber out there. I am sure the short and super shorts are a little better than the parent cartages, but this seems more like a marketing gimmick than anything else. Now we have to buy new rifles, new (and more expensive ammo) and goodness knows what else. Plus there is no surplus ammo for these new cartridges. Call me silly or outdated, but I already dislike this trend!

JustC

the beauty is that the new calibers don't replace anything. Shoot what you have,..and don't worry about what the other guy has. My 300RUM is not for sale,..and it does have an advantage,..but most shooters won't realize it,..because they don't wish to put bullets where I do.

I think the WSSM is a gimick,..to gain market share. I probably wouldn't feel that way if they used a standard short action which could be rebarreled to any short action caliber,..but they can only be used for a WSSM caliber. That I feel is a crappy design flaw.

why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
Got Balistics?

Stormtrooper 13

I haven,t made up my mind about shorts yet . Haven,t heard enough real in the field data yet ( actual game taken ) . From all the hype you would believe that the deer fall down dead from mearly pointing it at it [;)] . My father-in-law just bought a 300 wsm always assulting me with ballistic and all . Just from his talk the gun has killed 15 deer already . Of course I heard this all a few years back when he bought a 300 win mag just because I owned one . He don,t like to be out gunned. If memory serves me right he end up missing and wounding a few deer . Now I have had my 300 since I got my first good paying job after I graduated school , and it has taken every deer I shot at . Rarely reguiring a follow up , or much tracking . Now is it the bullet or the shooter [;)] . I think these new cartridges are a fad , and the old tried and trues remain . Look at the 30-30 & 45-70 . How many calib. have they watched go by the wayside , and I think the 30-30 has taken more game than all other calib. combined

bambihunter

Storm, just tell him they aren't powerful enough for deer, he needs a .50 BMG! [:D]
Man, it makes me wonder how people fed themselves for all those years before the short and/or ultra's came out. I also shoot a .300 win mag and so far, out of ~ 70 deer taken, only 1 would have been out of range with my .50 muzzleloader (with which 50 or so of the 70 were taken with).
My point is that it sure doesn't take the latest/greatest thing to take most north American game animals. If we were in Africa, my views might be different.

Stormtrooper 13

Bambi ,
Since the early 90,s 90% of my deer are taken by chuckn sticks at them . So close range ,and primitive are not new ideas .

chuck

I think they are over bored and will be barrel burners, but only time will tell.

4wheeler

2 of my friends have them and swear by them but if I buy a new gun,I am not going to tell everyone it is no good. Therefore,I stll have no idea how good they are.

I reread my statement and it makes no sense,oh well[:D]