I'm being contacted by owners of these other products and finally did some research.. "Is this right, if you can find any ammo and in the case of the socom it's $3.18/rd for the recommended ammo made by SBR"?!" (compared to a $1.25/rd area for ours). This can't be right, is it? I know, say about a year ago, Starline started back up production of those rds after a nearly two year shut-down and redesign (seems they were splitting cases, huh, imagine that, guess that stretched pistol case just wont handle the modern rifle pressures or at least that's what I was told the problem was from Peter Pi [Corbon pres.] PS., And by my measurements the redesign, is still not up to the modern high pressure rifle case standards our cartridge is at, not even close. Remember the socom/beowulf cases are made from stretching the 50AE case.), but I digress.
Those guys have some VERY disgruntled customers that have spent a ton of money and now can't get any ammo and/or, industry support is a .."JOKE", their quote not mine, heck I wouldn't know. My Internet research is indicating that some of this may be true or is at least a big problem, but I don't want to believe it, but more than 3 bucks (in the +3x times area of what we spend) a round and finding it is a Hugh Problem.
I don't know what to tell these guys, I guess, I'm looking for the inside skinny. When Weeme, picked my mind and thought he could copy my work, did toughs guys jump the gun in their design work-ups, same for the 499/beowulf guys or is market pressures the reason for the lack of product and support or what? Any Thoughts??