I have enjoyed playing with a lot of different cartridges over the years, and it's pretty easy for the firearms marketeers to suck me into trying a new cartridge, as long as I like the rifle it's chambered in.
Since I tend to like lighter more svelte rifles, I have owned one or more rifles chambered in 243, 260, 7-08, and 6.5 Creedmoor, and there are currently four 308's in my safe.
We all have different needs, and these other short-action rounds clearly excel in some ways, but I think it would be hard to argue with the point Finn made in the article - "The round sired the .243 Winchester, the .260 and 7mm-08 Remingtons, and the .358 Winchester. While all of them are fine rounds for some applications, none of them can match the versatility of their daddy as a big game cartridge."
