Mike, the .35 Whelen was also available in the Ruger 77. I don't know if they sold out fast or if they didn't make very many because when I tried to order one they were no longer available.

It seems as though the average consumer talks about buying the short magnums, but they don't tend to actually spend their money on them. I think most of those short magnum cartridges Winchester has introduced will end up as marketing mistakes, much the same as Remington's 8mm magnum did. The shops will possibly still have factory ammunition for it in a few years, but probably only because Winchester and other companies require that some of the ammunition a shop purchases for retail sale be in their new calibres; ie, dealer sells a ton of .30/06 ammo every month, and the makers won't sell the dealer .30/06 ammo unless he also buys some of their worthless inventory as well.

Richard