’i’d like to see (blank) legitimized!’

Ok, proprietary, Lazzeroni - 6.71 Blackbird. OR go ahead and chamber a .264 barrel to 6.5mm x'06. I was just looking and Ackley had better velocities than with his own "improved" version. Do you have Cartidges of the World on hand? Great reference and can really get you wallet in trouble with all the what-if's.

How about a 9.3x63 Ruger . Available in the all new Ruger m77mk2 Express LR with a 22" barrel. Available factory loadings would be a 286 grain A-Square Dead Tough bullet at about 2300 fps would be about perfect. Now that would be one heck of a combo! Now with a brand new Zeiss 1.75-4x32 with 3-6" of eye relief would be just peachy. That is the $20 version of course .

NH_Hunter

i think that every cartridge i'd ever have cause to buy is available to me now... would be nice to see a 25 whizzum... (that would be wsm, w/ one s, not its baby brother still in diapers, the wussem, aka wssm, w/ 2 s's).

Mine is very simple. Just the 30-30 AI so I could get it chambered in a brand new Marlin right off the shelf.

Who needs legit, anyway?

Go to the pawn shop, buy a rust bomb with the right action, stab the barrel of your dreams on it and go!

Mountaineer,

Well, the 358 sta is a lot of shell for most plains game, like the zebra and the wildebeast.  Both zebra and wildebeast are actually large animals way above deer, and in my experience are tough to kill for their size.  But The 338 winchester and the 340 Weatherby are perfect for them.  It kicks like the 375 H&H but can't be used on public lands for dangerous game.  Mountaineer I don't see who who buy enough to make it even close to commerically viable.  The 358 Norma went down the tubes and it was more versatile than the STA.

Actually had a Husquvarna 358 Norma mag in my hands one time and didn't buy it.  Kick my as% when I think of it.

BEAR

Well both Klallen and Bear know more about this plains game stuff than I do.  Hell, I can't even get around to hunting all our critters much less African game!

From what I've read and see though, the 358 STA is a heck of a caliber though better and worser (is that a word???) calibers exist.

One caliber that I think has fallen from the spotlight that I really like AND USE is my little 257 Roberts.  I wish more people would pick up on it.  I really like it for most all my deer hunting.  Plenty of power for most of my deer hunting and an accurate little bugger to boot.  Heck, when I was testing handloads, I found that it would group about 1 inch 5 shot groups with just about anything.  Could've been the exception of a gun but that little Ruger 77 of mine shoots dang fine. 

I'm sure NH is smiling at this comment!

I'd like to se the 6.5-06 get a legitimate place in the market. I've owned one for a number of years and I really like it for anything up to and including Caribou. Will readily dump bigger game too, but there are chamberings that are probably more suitable when the live weight exceeds 600 lbs. I wouldn't mind seeing a commercial offering of the 358 Norma Mag, but I'll not hold my breath. Regards, EE

Fella's;

I'm gonna have to vote for the real thing, the .257 SuperRoberts, otherwise not known as the .257WSM.  Since it's not produced ya know.

Taz;  Look no further than the 6.5 Schuler.  The case is, as is the .30-06, a derivative of the 8X68S 8mm Mauser.  In this instance, it's not been cut to 63mm, but left at 68mm.  It's ballistically the .264 Winmag without a belt.  Or there's the 6.5X61 Mauser.  Showing a factory load of 2906 fps with a 139 gr bullet.

900F

Ranchdog,

I thought they kind of did that,  called it the 307.

BEAR