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<blockquote data-quote="mitch260" data-source="post: 1308411" data-attributes="member: 53720"><p>THEIS, I agree with much of what you said. I would like to add my perspective. The desicsion to keep the Lethal Magnum wasn't out of what I would consider wildcat-itus. All things considered, there are many reasons why the LM, Merc, Hubble Express, VM2 would make poor choices from a military perspecitve. Barrel life, magazine issues, etc. The 375 Chey-Tac feeds great from a magazine, offers reasonable barrel life, and the performance will get operators out the extremes of their rifle's precision capabilities. The LM was designed specifically for me to use in the KO2M match, since I couldn't get anything like it to build myself at the time. I had dreamed of owning a VM2. I decided to keep it with in LPA as more of a novalty than anything, it offers great performance for ELR competition or for a long range hunting rifle. I never really had the intention for it to go main stream, I recognized the limited market it would service, and it meant more to me if I had a hand in every rifle the wore that designation. I fully agree though that "wildcat-itus" will keep a good design from going mainstream, if going mainstream is the goal. I am fully aware that the LM won't go mainstream, and the only reason it is the foundation of my rifle building is because of the limited time I have to dedicate to it, as LPA grows (slowly on purpose) I fully expect the LM to be a small percentage of what we do.</p><p></p><p>I've had a number of conversaitons with Kirby, and I don't think he suffers from what I would consider "wildcat-itus". He's a one man shop that builds custom rifles, and doesn't really have plans of making his stuff go mainstream. He just loves this stuff and wants to keep his name on his work.</p><p></p><p>I think wildcat-itus can be easily seen in the competetiveness some of these guys have around their cartridges. I love seeing new cartridge designs and guys building these beasts of rifles, its really unfortunate when these conversations are abrasive for no good reason other than ego. I got into this industry reading Kirby's and Dave's posts, their work gave me this addiciton! Lol</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, "wildcat-itus" would apply to guys that want to keep their wildcat proprietary because they think it is going to explode and be the next best thing while they ride it to the top. And I fully agree with you, that isn't going to happen. I'll admit there were a few times I started to think this way, but I quickly brought myself back out of it to focus on much more important projects and aspects of my career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mitch260, post: 1308411, member: 53720"] THEIS, I agree with much of what you said. I would like to add my perspective. The desicsion to keep the Lethal Magnum wasn't out of what I would consider wildcat-itus. All things considered, there are many reasons why the LM, Merc, Hubble Express, VM2 would make poor choices from a military perspecitve. Barrel life, magazine issues, etc. The 375 Chey-Tac feeds great from a magazine, offers reasonable barrel life, and the performance will get operators out the extremes of their rifle's precision capabilities. The LM was designed specifically for me to use in the KO2M match, since I couldn't get anything like it to build myself at the time. I had dreamed of owning a VM2. I decided to keep it with in LPA as more of a novalty than anything, it offers great performance for ELR competition or for a long range hunting rifle. I never really had the intention for it to go main stream, I recognized the limited market it would service, and it meant more to me if I had a hand in every rifle the wore that designation. I fully agree though that "wildcat-itus" will keep a good design from going mainstream, if going mainstream is the goal. I am fully aware that the LM won't go mainstream, and the only reason it is the foundation of my rifle building is because of the limited time I have to dedicate to it, as LPA grows (slowly on purpose) I fully expect the LM to be a small percentage of what we do. I've had a number of conversaitons with Kirby, and I don't think he suffers from what I would consider "wildcat-itus". He's a one man shop that builds custom rifles, and doesn't really have plans of making his stuff go mainstream. He just loves this stuff and wants to keep his name on his work. I think wildcat-itus can be easily seen in the competetiveness some of these guys have around their cartridges. I love seeing new cartridge designs and guys building these beasts of rifles, its really unfortunate when these conversations are abrasive for no good reason other than ego. I got into this industry reading Kirby's and Dave's posts, their work gave me this addiciton! Lol In my opinion, "wildcat-itus" would apply to guys that want to keep their wildcat proprietary because they think it is going to explode and be the next best thing while they ride it to the top. And I fully agree with you, that isn't going to happen. I'll admit there were a few times I started to think this way, but I quickly brought myself back out of it to focus on much more important projects and aspects of my career. [/QUOTE]
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