re: Rifle advice in budget 308

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No it's not.

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Yes, it is. I said a particular rifle, not any rifle. I can have a gunsmith cut any chamber I want so nothing will ever truly go away, but there has been a definite trend in the availability of rifles and ammo on the shelf. I can watch ammoseek and maybe something will pop up, but this is what stores look like:

Cabela’s in Gonzales currently has four 7 rem mag rifles of any brand on their shelf, and one type of ammo for them.

For comparison, they have fourty-four 6.5CMs and twenty-two types of ammo, that I can go drive and pick up now.

Local academy has twenty-five 6.5CMs and zero 7RM.

I agree with you completely that’s dumb, but it’s a fact. The CM is over 15 years old so it’s not some flash in the pan. 7 PRC is getting the same marketing push that the 6.5 CM got.