I concur with Bill and Fiver. I'm on the fence but leaning heavily to the "not me" side, but we'll see. Part of slimming my personal battery involved making a lot of compromises, to include deferring to more commonality in components, moulds, dies, etc. and more common cases. This way, I never have to worry about raising funds for another new gun or tooling (yeah,... laugh) and could afford to shoot even if I were in a zero-income state for a period of time, or if components dried up again.
I really could rationalize this either into or out of my battery pretty easily - if it were in a CZ 527. Not a thing wrong with Howa's new short-short action, but it would take the adorable little Mauser remake to shift me off center.
Fiver,
When did they come out with the WSSM cartridges? I have ignored the "Ultra-Short" and "Super-Short" Magnums except to know they came out, but those are pretty new.
Bill,
BIG thing in the "straight-wall" states, and I bet there's a lot of guys who bought an AR just because they were sure they'd be banned and don't know what to do with it now. A new upper could make them happy.
RB,
I had the same thoughts about a Carcano, or maybe a Mauser single-stack, but never looked at the pressures just because it would be a lot of work I just don't have time for any more. Would be a neat project and it seems no one loves Carcanos even as other previously less desirable milsurps have really jumped in price. I remember when Rolling Blocks were cheap and not terribly well thought of. Krags too. When I think Carcano, I think Rodney Dangerfield.