Thread: 300 PRC why hasnt it achieved greater popularity ?

All the reasons mentioned above are valid when asking why it has not achieved greater popularity:
- recoil beyond what most can handle in a light rifle with out a break and a suppressor ( the gentler 7rem mag is actually the limit for a vast majority of people , unbraked or unsuppressed).
- it does not fit in a tikka ( it does fit in a Sako 85 magazine , and guncity have some Lothar walther barrels pre chambered ready to screw onto )
- only hornady manufatures ammo.
- like every kool cartridge hornady comes with, you have the usual comment” I ll jump on that cartridge when good quality brass is available cause hornady brass is crap”
- Howa and browning were the first two manufacturers to come with a rifle in that cartridge then later Bergara and maybe a few more.
But for a while you had to get a custom gun made if you wanted something descent .
- don’t forget that this cartridge came out just before the USA riot crisis and the realisation for millions of Americans that they needed a gun which brought the whole shortage of ammunitions and components : it was more viable for all the major ammo manufacturers to make 9mm para and 223 Remington than any of the latest exotic cartridge.
- and then came covid and the shortage of components in nz : projectiles, powders , brass, primers ( still)…
And now we have the rifle range restrictions, where a 7mm saum or equivalent in energy is pretty much the max you can shoot, unless you own a good size of land to play as you wish, or you know somebody with such land.

And yes , more likely the 7prc will be the next creedmoor.