sgt_zim
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Way to put words in my mouth.Because you believe that most shooters can't shoot well beyond 300 yards no one should be interested in cartridges that are capable of accuracy beyond that distance. Because you believe that most hunters live in flat, whitetail woods where 300 yards would be an impossibly long shot, none of them have an interest in hunting in country where 300 yards is not considered a really long shot. Because you believe that no deer will care whether or not the bullet that hit him came from a 7-08 or a 7 mm RM (okay, he won't, but an elk might) the 7-08 is a superior round because it kicks less. I shoot and hunt with both of those cslibers, along with .30-06 and .300 Win Mag. They all have their place, and sometimes flat shooting is an important consideration. I like the 7-08 for deer when I don't expect shots beyond 250 yards, but I don't carry it when I hunt mule deer or pronghorns.
So to answer your original question, no I don't think we will stop talking about "flat shooting" cartriges.
Most shooters can't shoot 300 yards. Go to any public range and watch them struggle for an inch at 100 yards.
Most hunters in the US do live and hunt in flat, white tail woods.
The line of demarc is roughly along Interstate 35. Way more people live and hunt east of there than west of there.
And I have never said there is no utility in flat-shooting cartridges, there is just no advantage to shooting them for most hunters.
Flat shooting is useful here
But here, not so much