11-17-2010, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Peace Country (again)
Posts: 3,495
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Originally Posted by sheephunter
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.
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look accross the pond...
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