Thread: overlap between cartridges

Greetings @Micky Duck and @blip,
The reason we have so may new and near duplicate cartridges is because new and different sells. Very few of the new wonder cartridges that have sprouted like weeds over the last few decades offer anything much over older cartridges. In the US the reluctance to use faster twists in existing cartridges has also been a factor until recently. The reason that the US has produced so many cartridges that more or less duplicate continental loadings of older cartridges is a chronic disdain for things not invented in the US. The gaps between cartridges has become so wafer thin, if it exists at all, that most Wildcats produce fail to produce any improvement unless they are loaded to eye watering pressures. I sometimes talk of an "a what" cartridge. This is where the proud owner announces the chambering of his latest bang stick (and possibly mumbling a bit) to which his audience replies "A what?"
Regards Grandpamac.