Quality Myth

[L. Cooper]

The same logic applies to the NEW AND WONDERFUL cartridges too. There is no rational reason for some of the new developments in cartridges except for marketing and bragging rights for owners.

Everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done with any round developed since about 1960 that couldn't be done with a round that was born before that date.

Make it clear here, I'm talking about hunting, not military uses.

Was moose hunting once when another party of hunters stopped in our camp. One guy looked at the .30-06 of one of our party, and then with a sort of sneer, took out a 7mm Rem Mag round and showed my friend how much bigger his was. We had no idea how to respond. That guy's need for therapy was obvious.

How much of the marketing of hunting products, especially gun related stuff, is aimed directly at such people who obviously have a sense that they are not "big enough"?