Thread: What will the hunting rifles of the future look like ?

Greeting to all of you a little bewildered by the endless procession of new must have cartridges, rifles, optics etc etc etc,
I was born in 1949 and by the time I started to take any notice of rifles the .303 was still king. Import restrictions meant that there were few new rifles available and they were too expensive for most to own. Boy have things changed. Although supply has slowed for the moment by the panic buying due to politics in the US and Covid the variety is endless. Whether any of it is as new or revolutionary as touted or how many of hunters actually take advantage of all the new wizzo bits is a matter of opinion. We each must make our peace with it.
Micky mentioned the .222 Remington Magnum. I was standing in Calibre Country (a excellent sports shop in Tamworth NSW in Oz) a couple of years back and was chatting with one of the locals. He had a .222 Rem Mag and was handloading for it with a Lyman tong tool. He was concerned that his supply of cases was getting low so I suggested that .204 Ruger cases could be reformed into .222RM and that the people in Calibre Country could probably help him with that. He had never heard of the .204 and reforming cases was a complete mystery to him.
I often wonder what would happen if I wandered into one of the local huts frequented by those with the latest in equipment carrying my iron sighted .303. For effect I could wear a black woolen bush singlet, shorts and Bullers. Added to this could be a Pikau and I could cook up some rice and apricots for a meal. I could let my white beard and hair grow long for the occasion. Do you think anybody would actually notice?
Regards Grandpamac.
PS In belated reply to the OP change for the forseeable future is likely to be ever smaller increments in improvement in hunting rifles rather than drastic change. In the short term perhaps a movement away from the big boomers which I think has started already. Sorry no ray guns.