I am old enough to remember the Recession days of the late '70's and what happened to the gun industry, limping along as it did, with quality spinning down and many metric and Euro cartridges more-or-less unavailable in the States. For the last 20 years we have lived thru a real heyday of availability and with the cartridge companies virtually doing the work of the wildcatters of days-gone-by.

I seriously wonder about the plethora of cartridges that have been introduced in the last 10-15 years and what the "life expectancy" of them is, that is, when a crunch hits and the slow runners have to get culled from the stables.

I wonder which of the recent newbies will survive and which will get canned?