The hottest news in rifles as we approached and entered the 21st century was the proliferation of “short-fat” cartridges, and rifles to shoot them.
You remember the hoopla. The defining belief was that shorter, fatter cartridges exposed more propellant to the primer ignition flame, thus making a more efficient burn, gaining more horsepower out of less powder. The thicker, shorter powder column was said to be conducive to better accuracy, although this was debatable.
I bought into all these theories, even wrote about this movement to shorter, fatter rounds (most based on the old .404 Jeffery, a thick-based shell of African heritage), and got as excited as anyone with the continuing development of newer, shorter cartridges.
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