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Originally Posted by aulrich
I think the 7mm wsm has too much competition from all the other super duper mags. The 270 wsm has more of a substancial slice of the imaginary ballistics pie.
The 270 had more penned up upgrade market think of all the guys who think 277 is the best diameter out there and had no "magnum" of there own other than the not very accessable Weatherby.
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One of the marketing dudes for Winchester told me that Americans won't embrace metric cartridges. Sure the 7RM beat the odds but overall, putting a metric designation to a cartridge is a kiss of death. And as you say, I think the lore of the 270 Win worked in favour of the WSM as well. You can still own a .270 like Jack but it's a super-charged magnum. Very little to do with practicality and everything to do with marketing and an imperial based system of measurement.