I'm thinking it would a modernization of the 7mm RM (a personal favorite), updated shoulder and no belt. Much like the 300 WM could use, no belt, 30 degree shoulder, .308 neck. Not necessarily better ballistically, just a better case design. Never liked the way belts stack up and take room in a magazine.
Yeah, I always hated that too. Knowing I could get 3 and 1/8 cartridges in the mag box vs 3. Really chaps my hide!!! Even in my pre 64's that hold 4 and my sporter m1917 that holds 5 magnum cartridges. If I could only get 5 and a 1/4 rounds in, that would be the schidt right there..
BSA, you're a pretty inquisitive tuner of hunting rifles. Your bedding jobs and handloading is first-rate stuff. I know you're much more capable of investigating something, before you cast judgement.
Anyhow, this excellent 338 rcm/300rcm family of cartridges are an honest 4 rounds down kinda gun, in the ruger hawkeye platform. Ruger missed the mark on a very important, marketable advantage over the wsm's: 4 rounds down
But nah man, they(ruger/hornady) had to bllsht the collective intelligence of riflemen by claiming these cartridges were the equivalent of the 338 win mag in a short barrel. Which we all know was bllsht. The bllsht continued with some of the mediocre, cheerleader, yes-men gunwriter shills.
