It’s obsolete. Couple that with a general unpopularity of anything 8mm, as well as the fading of the WSM fad, and you have the recipe for a turkey of a rifle.
The WSM business was the solution to a problem that didn’t exist, IMO. No doubt the 325 WSM would be a terrific elk rifle - so long as you don’t part company with your ammo on the way to your hunting grounds.
The 8mm caliber never found a niche among American hunters, despite the fact there have been some terrific cartridges for it. The 8mm/06 is dead, as is the 8mm RM, and one seldom hears much in glowing terms of the 8x57 (compared to the 7x57, 6.5x55, or even the 9.3x62).
It was the last of the WSM series, designed to closely resemble the .338 WM in trajectory and power (I suppose why it was not a 338 WSM is that it couldn’t quite catch the 338 WM).
All that said, you could probably get a very nice rifle for a steal these days, as I see quite a lot of them on the used market. But you’d better be something of a bullet hoarder and crank in general to make up for it’s shortcomings. Go ahead, and get a rousing applause from the Rifle Looney Farm.
Last edited by GF1; 05/20/20.
