I have a hard time seeing a niche for the new 30 Nosler........ballistically somewhere between the 300 WM and 300 Wby..........that's not exactly a gaping ballistic hole that needed filling IMHO. Also with brass and rifles at 4X the cost of the Win or Wby that ballistic gap becomes virtually non-existent to any who care about their hard earned dollars at all. Nosler is, in my opinion, trying to cover any inroads wildcatters may make of their supposedly new case design, which they stole from Dakota of course. So they themselves are going to wildcat it up and maybe down for the full gamut and figure out what stays and what goes.............I think a 375 on this case would be a super cartridge and may even put the last nail in the 375 Imposter coffin, which as we all know is dying a slow and painful lingering death. Ruger keeps coming out with uglier and uglier models in the soon to be dead Imposter, trying futilely to resurrect this corpse of a cartridge.
But in all seriousness, if Nosler expects any of it's offspring to be other than still born, they will have to address the cost factor and get it down to a competitive level, at least as far as ammo and component brass goes, or their offerings will just be more overpriced boutique cartridges and rifles with virtually no market past the initial hype and flurry.
Gate.........300 WSM, 300 H&H, 308 NM, 300 Win, 300 Wby, 300 RUM, 7.62 Lazzaroni, 300 Dakota, 30-378 Wby and now the 30 Nosler as well as a couple I may have forgotten or am not acquainted with.
