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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diggler1833" data-source="post: 4092093" data-attributes="member: 48072">We've seen some poor liberal thinking from Springfield Armory, Daniel Defense, Ruger, Rock River Arms, and Kimber (probably missing someone)...but it has never been in the cartridge development segment.  Getting "woke" with a new selection would be a first for sure.The Bud/Target/etc... wokeness was done with "DEI" (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in mind.  They essentially ignored the majority of their customer base in hopes to expand to a smaller niche and increase revenues, and it backfired.Usually poor cartridge ideas can be traced back to bean counters coming from other backgrounds, and not knowing their markets.  We're coming off of 3 years of ammo shortages, and significantly higher prices.  Most dudes are trying to stockpile what they missed out on for several years.  Most people are still intimately familiar with hunting high and low on bare shelves or sold out websites for their favorite cartridge.  Unless you reload, few want to saddle themselves with an obscure cartridge right off the bat.Add in that probably just like the 6.8 Western, I doubt you'll get much buy-in from other manufacturers until there is an appreciable market segment (costs a lot to tool up).  So I see this as an example of what may or may not be a good idea getting left out to dry from the competition for quite some time.^ I still only see Winchester making ammo for their 6.8 (some is labeled as Browning, but Winchester produced).  Pretty sure all of their rifles come from the same plant too...BUT, I do see a few Christiansen and Seekins 6.8 offerings now...so maybe there's hope.</blockquote>

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