In Scandinavia, there are hundreds of thousands of active competition shooters, shooting tens of thousands of 6.5x55, factory Lapua Match ammunition every week. I guess many also reload, but 6.5x55 Match ammunition is cheap over there.
They use the Sauer 200 STR rifle, as their standard weapon. I belive compined there are 300-500.000 active shooters in those 4 countries.
Several types of events, this is one of them:
The US in the last 40 years:
Socialism for big corporations and military industrial complex
