John, it can be said truthfully that Winchester dropped em like a hot potato is true. Jamison won his lawsuit in Sept. 2005. 6 mos later March 2006 Winchester ceased to exist. Now it is not impossible for local gun shops to still have one in stock as I kept seeing Winchesters for sale for a long time although the price had escalated a lot. Now any agreement made between Browning who is licensed to use the Winchester name and Rick Jamison who owns the patents to make a WSM will probably never be known. Either way, Winchester dropped em real fast. Didn’t mean to ruffle feathers by stating what is public record. Winchester tried to steal the concept, got caught then went belly up.
I am familiar with all that, partly because (like many gun writers) I was contacted by Winchester and asked my opinion on various aspects of the case before the suit was decided.
This thread is titled "Cartridges That Are Vanishing." The WSMs are not vanishing.
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