memilanuk
Gold $$ Contributor
Marketing helps, but marketing won’t sell junk.
The 6.5 creedmoor is the first SA cartridge I’m aware of that will do all this:
- feed from 2.8” oal
- with 2300+ lb feet at the muzzle
- with a bullet over 0.287 sectional density
- with a modern 1.5 deg leade
- in SAAMI form
Apparently you never heard of the 6.5x47 Lapua? It did everything you listed, before the Creedmoor, as well or better than the Creedmoor, and had *way* better brass than the Creedmoor for many years... but Hornady marketed the heck out of their product, whereas Lapua didn't. That, and cartridges with 'metric' names traditionally don't do well in the American market (cartridges with civ/mil variants like .223 Rem / 5.56x45 Nato, etc. are pretty much the sole exceptions)