I already told you, asshat. It is a great balance of performance, recoil, typical rifle weight and length. The 7mm magnum and the 280 to a lesser extent are overbore. The magnum typically a 24 inch barrel and traditionally has been chambered in rifles that weigh 9 pounds or so all up. The 7mm-08 gets its maximum performance out short action rifles and shorter barrels making a nice easy carrying rig.
Now, you know all that. You just want to pedantically pick a fight over insignificant details and point out that cartridges with bigger cases with more powder will outperform it. Yes, they will in larger and heavier rifles.
The 7-08 is the modern version of the 7x57. And anyone who doesn't think the 7x57 is pure sex is obviously a queer.
