Remington has found that all the original hype over the 300 RUM, had a few draw backs.
Many shooters find the recoil of full house RUM loadings a bit much, and therefore cant shoot them very well, so opposed to letting the caliber die they have loaded it to a couple diffrent power levels, therefore allowing it to be more user friendly.
As for the claim the 300 RUM is only a 300WM with more bang, well the same can be said for the 300WM, it's just a 30'06 with more bang.
It's called marketing, the manufacturesr have to expand their line ups else wise they dont grow, so new caliber new loading and new rifles get sold, a Free Market Economy at it's best.
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