CraigC
Sixgun Nut
The .450 Marlin was simply legitimized .45/70 +P.It seems there's a lot of new rifle cartridges in recent times. I don't understand why many of them came to be. I know the 450 Bushmaster and 350 Legend are because cartridges need to be straight walled for hunting in some areas. Some examples are below:
450 Marlin: There's already the .444 Marlin and the .45-70.
375 Ruger: There's the 375 H&H
300 Remington Ultra Magnum, 300 WSM, and the 300 Ruger Compact Magnum: We already have the 300 Winchester and 300 Weatherby Mag.
416 Ruger: There are already similiar cartridges
The .375Ruger is .375H&H performance in a standard long action. Handle one and then a true magnum action .375 or .416 like the CZ and you'll understand.
The WSM and RCM are magnum performance in a short action with shorter barrels. A picture is worth a thousand words. Here's my CZ .416Rigby compared to a Ruger .338RCM.
Countless people will never get it and we will continue to have to explain it every two or three days.The 6.5 creedmoor is a perfect example of a cartridge that on the face of it looks entirely unnecessary, but does offer significant fitment advantages over the 2 cartridges it is basically replacing.
Uh, excuse me??? That's an awfully broad brush you're painting with. Some offensive generalizations could be made in the other direction but that's not for polite conversation.The only caveat I'd add to this is: that new rifle sales are generally from the same group of people that also believe in Global Warming, that they don't need a wristwatch, map, or compass, and that Socialism will work... this time.
They believe what their phones, celebrities, and internet connections tell them to believe.