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Originally Posted by Dick284
Actually you are quite wrong about the 7mm-08. It was developed in Mexico by shillouette shooters who liked the 7x57 performance on targets, but because the law in Mexico prohibits owning rifles chambered in anything ever used by any military, it became necessary for them to wildcat a cartridge that performed like the 7x57.
And too boot the 7-08 will fit and function in a short action rifle.
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And the Creedmoor was designed for competition. The goal was a cartridge that you could pick up factory ammo on the way to a shoot and with that ammunition shoot and compete. It wasn’t a marketing lightbulb, it was done right from the get go and as things that make sense do, it caught on.