This thread reminds me of the articles in the seventies in the gun magazines like 'Guns and Ammo" when the gun writers ran out of new things to write about:
IS THE 44 MAGNUM STILL KING?
IS THE 30-30 WINCHESTER DEAD?
GOODBY TO THE 270 WINCHESTER?

Don't think the 12 gauges are dead, Palunc, as my friend Terry from BC remarked, wallets are closed for the duration
Mike