Well I shot a few deer with a 7mm-08 back when it came out, I had a Remington 700 so chambered. Sporter barrel around 1982. Remington was loading 139 gr Hornady SP in the factory load back then. Worked fine, just like my 7 x 57. The key is to find a bullet that you like and shoots well enough. Any decent 7mm bullet from 140 gr to 160 or even a 175 gr will do. One of my friends who homesteads in Alaska shoots nothing but a 7mm-08 and 140 gr Nosler Partitions loads from Federal, he may go thru a whole box in a decade. Fills his Black tail and moose tags every year. Told me once that his field shooting gotten much better when he when to that cartridge vs the 375 H+H he use to shoot. He could shoot that too, my guess its easier for a 76 year old to walk all day carrying a 7lb rifle vs one that is near 10 lbs.
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