Regarding the 25-284, it is and remains a great .257" bore cartridge, even if nobody is banging the drum for it. No more a "fad" than it ever was, just not a cartridge that will ever be commercialized, like a lot of other wildcats and cartridges that have been superseded by newer cartridges that fill the same niche and have elbowed out the older cartridges that are their performance equals.
