Boy that's going to have some ramifications in other States also.  In AZ and others I wonder if this judgment carries over to other States or would the other States have to file their own lawsuit ? 

Derrill,   I really don't know anything about the Smith SD 40,  I'd get some you tubes on them and check out their reviews.  Norma broke her knee & shin bone very badly almost a year ago 18 pins, plates, bone graft, and 2 surgeries and it's still not right,  looking possible for another surgery later we just don't know,  she retired and stopped hunting she will still go but not hunt.  Brandon is doing fine still hunting and shed hunting,  I screwed up on a couple cow elk 2 years ago  down the road near the wildlife habitat area when the muzzleloader didn't go bang or they were one behind the other and couldn't shoot.  Brandon has taken a couple 6x6 nice bulls  the last few years he passed on a monster 6 by maybe 200 yds skylighted on a ridge broadside,   and didn't want to take a chance of where the bullet would go,  he shot one bull at 832 yds with his 300 wby MKV  a bunch of us watching not like a lot of pressure,  you could see the vapor trail looking like a soft ball till it hit. cold late Nov morning about 8000 ft elev,  had a hard time ranging that bull out in that new growth Aspens,  I couldn't range it in my older Leica,   another friend was having trouble with his pulled the battery out of mine and gave it to him still couldn't get a range I tried  Brandons Vortex 1800 RF couldn't pick up a range another friend used his new Leupold and finally got the range and he shot,  after that I went out and bought a Vortex Fury AB 5000  I like it so far  a lot of features I probably never use.  hard to get drawn anymore especially for Bull.  Brandon and I were up on an Antelope hunt  1 1/2 hr to the north west of us I guess about 4 yrs ago we were watching a 400 Bull for a couple days no elk tags of course he had probably 50 to 60 cows with him and a couple lesser Bulls in the rear didn't see any Antelope I wanted to shoot so I went home empty,  Brandons was spotting using that wide angle Kowa 82mm you could see the ripples in his skin it's so clear.   you still have my phone # ?    I haven't tried to get tags on the RES after Covid  things are different I think.

I used Buck knives along with the larger folding Case knives  when I was in the Navy back then you could drive over to El Cajon just east of San Diego and see the Buck factory when it was there,    every now and then our  little local swap meet you can get some pretty good deals on used Buck knives and others I kind of like the older Western Boulder skinners also.

grizzly340 !  sorry I didn't catch the last part of your post,   No our 257's  shoot 7828 regular and 7828 short cut differently.  IMO I think the problem with switching back and forth long cut vs short cut it's awfully hard to get an exact exact  match  and it's the same using different lots of powder.  if a person really wanted to keep it to the ninth degree it's better to buy in 8 lb kegs or 1 pounders out of the same lot .  When I load these long cut powders I measure them one at a time and in the 257's I started off first with the regular 7828 and then the short cut version because I was running out of long cut 7828 at the time was harder for me to find locally.    I suppose if I had started off with the short cut first  and found a good load for it  may be the other way around.  both our 257 members rifles shoot pretty much the same accuracy and velocities with 7828 .  I did have pretty good results  with Norma MRP and RL22,   I do have a can the old MRP2   I haven't  seen a need for using yet. 

Thanks for the info,   always nice to have other sources of components

when we get over regulated whatever the products may be  oil, mining, etc.,  it always comes back to bite us.  I totally get it when new products come out that are better, more useful,  fills a wider application  then some of the older products get discontinued,  I don't like it but that's just how it is.   a little off the subject  I would much rather be driving a vehicle that I can fix,  work on and re-build, something like my old 72 Chevelle,  or 68 Mustang GTA, or 70 Torino GT or  1970 Ford F-250 , even my old 73 jeep CJ-5 which I had to fix something after every hunting trip.  I regret to this day selling any of these vehicles only If I  knew then what the future held I would be a happy camper.  the guys are right and  I said this a long time ago when it comes to components if you see it buy it ,  I guess it comes to a point of how much do you actually need or need in the future and that comes down to you.  sometimes it's better not to think just buy it.  I have been trying to consolidate basically what powders can I live with re-loading for different cartridges and still have good results, easier said than done as new powders are always coming out that offer sometimes a substantial leap in fps vs the older powders,  can't help myself  somtimes.

last week started stage one fire restrictions in my area , a little breezy , a little snow that didn't stick,  and drier than a popcorn fart.   

I don't know on that one different cartridge lengths.  I suppose if you had rifles in both cartridges you could pull the floor plates and see if they are any differences,  maybe the 257 has a choked down magazine length i.e. spacer to limit internal length ?  possibly different spring and follower good question though.  A good gunsmith specializing in this conversion probably needs to be called.