The OP may have gotten into Gus' stash, though it doesn't seem to have quite the same effect.
The pondered cartridge sounds (ballistically) a lot like the 6.8SPC (now THERE'S a round that set the sales world on fire).
Winchester would be far better served by making rifles that shooters/hunters actually want than rolling the dice on gimmicky schit and new cartridges that do nothing (effectively) that existing cartridges haven't already been doing for a good, long while. I.e., they should have learned their lesson from the WSSMs, .225Win, .307Win, .356Win, etc., experiments.
Prezactly. I would rather have the rifle I want in the good ol 308, 270, Ought-Six, or 300/338 Win mag than all these odd-ball cartridges.
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