Hi Nick,
Glad you enjoyed the article! It does sound like you're a rifle loony.
I may have to do another article on why the rifle sometimes matters more to us than the chambering....
As Newhart used to say "That would be me".
Since, as you point out in your article, most ordinary cartridges can do pretty much all most of us require, as long as a potential rifle purchase can be fed with stuff I already have or can get easily, the chambering matters very little to me. Appealing aesthetics, and the fiddle factor determine what I buy these days. Budget stuff like your new project rifle are affordable fun and make good truck guns, but are unlikely to make the cut as keepers or heirlooms. I don't have a truck or a barn and in the East at least, places where you can walk around carrying a rifle, "just in case" are pretty scarce.
