325 wsm and 338RCM

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Just now got off the phone with "Lonny" at Hornady! It helps to go directly to the source to confirm what I had already known.

338 RCM loading data IS available on sheets that Hornady can send via an e/mail. The 300-338 RCM data did not make their Hornady 7th edition in time and will be in the 8th edition coming soon on or about the first of the year!

338 RCM reloading dies, last 6 digit part # (546399) (Midway) and shell holder #5 (390545) (same for the 375 Ruger), should be now available at Midway, even though their site may not been be updated to show that!

The same holds true for the 300 RCM..

According to Lonny, things are moving along very nicely for both RCM`s
to give whatever the reloader needs for these two rounds should anyone go out today, tomorrow, next week or whenever and buy a new 300-338 RCM M77 Hawkeye rifle!

Also according to Lonny, brass is now available by other distributors, with Midway coming soon!

With the exception of the 8th edition coming soon, everything is now available for the reloader. However in the meantime and before their 8th edition does come out, 20" 338 RCM reloading data can be gotten from Hornady via an e/mail request.

Yep! The new stuff sells. Just like the `ol standbys did when they were also new!! What`s a little different here though, is not just the RCM cartridges alone, it is also the rifles too ie., shorter, lighter and with the same performance as a 24" 338 Win.

Corbin!.........Want a 338 RCM? Go for it! You will have everything you`ll need for reloading......A 225 gr. bullet @ 2750-2800 fps. from a 20" tubed powerhouse?? Not too bad!!! As a matter of fact, that`s excellent!!

When Hornady`s R&D dept. & Ruger work together on certain innovative projects to accomplish certain goals, I would not bet against their success either in the short term or in the long term.

 

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If I got paid to hunt safaris, I would write excellent reviews of my sponsors also.

................That kind of response, is an easy a-typical response from skeptics! Yep! Those gun writers are in ALWAYS the back pockets of their sponsors allright!!

If I were a sponsor, whether I paid for their hunting trips or not, I would want them to report the truth about my product (negative or positive) so that I could go back and make the necessary re-finements in order to put the best possible product on the market that I could.

First off and through my personal contacts with Hornady, Hornady`s R&D WILL NOT release any new cartridge or design until it has been thoroughly tested in the labs, on the ranges for accuracy and in the hunting fields. C`mon! That`s just plain old common sense!

Would you release a new round without thorough development, refining and testing?? I don`t think you would Yote! Neither would Hornady!

 

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I think that if you were a major coporation, responsible to shareholder for quartery results, with a stock price that was essentially stagnat for years, you would do what ever you could to drive sales, including sending gun writers on safari's your new piece, and "encouragement" to write something nice about it. If after 5 years the round is dead, who cares, you got your quarterly results, now design something new to drive the next few quarters of sales. Keep it new, keep it fresh, but in the end, but in the end, at the core of all that great R&D's still probably a modified Mauser 98 action......

 

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I think that if you were a major coporation, responsible to shareholder for quartery results, with a stock price that was essentially stagnat for years, you would do what ever you could to drive sales, including sending gun writers on safari's your new piece, and "encouragement" to write something nice about it. If after 5 years the round is dead, who cares, you got your quarterly results, now design something new to drive the next few quarters of sales. Keep it new, keep it fresh, but in the end, but in the end, at the core of all that great R&D's still probably a modified Mauser 98 action......

........I agree there with some of that! And the best way to bring revenue to the table and keep any company moving, is with new product innovation, which also helps eliminate that stagnation. No innovations, companies remain stagnet or the same.......Time will be the determining factor for the RCM`s success or failure!