I'm wanting a 7MM REM. MAG.
I want to spend around $1,000 for the rifle and match it with a scope that will work in woods, cutovers, and gaslines. Scope can be $1,000 also.
What do you guys recommend?
I hate to be one of those guys who recommend something other than what was asked. And if your mind is already made up, then so be it.
But:
If it indeed it is for Alabama whitetail and/or hogs, I'd buy a 7mm-08.
I killed a large Michigan deer at 625 yds. with one of my 7-08s. One shot, DRT. That is about as far as I personally care to shoot at a deer, but it would work a good ways further out than that. Put a 162 Amax in a 7-08 and it will reach out and touch someone. Have killed many more at spitting distance.
Unless you plan on REALLY airing it out, I just don't see the need for the magnum. JMO........
