What I was refering to was in it's use! There is only one time you need to find a mag action for each rifle, and there are plenty of them around! As far as weighing less, that isn't a plus when one is useing something like a 458 win mag!

Be stiffer, is no problem on anything other than a target rifle, as long as it is strong enough for the cartridge chambered in it. If it isn't that strong, then it isn't worth buying in the first place! There is absolutely no advantage to a short action for hunting BIG GAME, but there is a real draw back to haveing only a short action, when one wants to build DGRs, for most of the best DGR cartridges require a MAGNUM ACTION! IMO, if you simply have to use a short action, the 416 Taylor is a far more effecient cartridge than the 458 Win Mag. The reduction of the 458 case to 416 suddenly is not under capacity for caliber!

Just because one has a favorite rifle type is no indication he knows nothing of other types! but, you knew that didn't you?

I'm sure you, like me have several of each chambered for everything from .22lr, to 577NE.