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I think Mehul is right, a .303 would have been nice too.

Couple things. I agree. A .303 would be pretty neat. In fact, tho, in EAA's defence, IIRC they catalogued a 7.62x54R for a while tho I don't think they ever sold them, and maybe never made them? I suspect though that some were made and maybe sold over in Russia. However, Mehul, on a trivial point, the .303 Wolf imports is, I think, actually made in Serbia. Good stuff though, just the same. I shoot lots of it in 6.5x55 and 8x57.

However I am not impressed by how many guys want to immediately "upgrade" them by re-chambering them to something more powerful. This sounds like asking for trouble to me.

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This last bit kind of confuses me, too. I mean, the guns were made in .45-70 {Nitro's pseudo-big-bore. ...I love it...I love the .45-70, too, and don't take it personally. I think of my .45-70 high pressure loads as the "Assault Weapon Loadings" of the .45-70 so I don't run afoul of NitroX... }

Anyway, if the dang gun is made in .45-70, .9.3x74R, .30-06 and 7x57R, why rebore/chamber to some other? I don't know, to each his own, but it confuses me, too... The 9.3x74R is nothing to sneeze at.

As for the reference to Remington trolls. I hope there is a chubby, fat-faced, dirt-under-the-talons troglodyte on the Remington payroll sitting here reading this as I type. Get the "big bore" combo and double Baikals back in the lineup, clean up any warts {read: REGULATION PROBLEMS} you find, and I near double guarantee you that you will sell a boatload of them. And please, keep the Good'Ole'Boy Factor to a minimum...

They are great guns for the quid.