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Just received an email notice from Midway that Winchester 7WSM brass is discontinued.

Is the 7WSM now officially dead?

Real shame, it is/was my favorite round of all other than the 308.


Midway link for 7WSM

Maybe Midway is just dropping it because it has not been produced in so long and can't be backordered.

Hope so.

I checked Winchester's online website and it still shows a part number for 7WSM brass under components.

its a one pass neck down from 300 WSM brass.

I called winchester about a month ago and was told they will be producing 7wsm brass over the summer

I got the same email today on Winchester 7/08 brass.

Best of the WSM bunch. Shame more rifles aren't sold.

Midway is probably just cleaning up odds and ends in their listings that don't have much promise of showing up. I'm sure they will stock Remington 7mm-08 again if production ever happens on that as well.

I got email from Midway today saying five different Winchester Cal of brass has been discontinued

I think the 7wsm was the best of the bunch. Too bad they promoted the 300 so hard.

I have the 300. It was the original design done by Rick Jamison and released 1st. Winchester modified his design to make the 270 and 7mm versions. The 270 WSM was released shortly after the 300 and both got off to a good start.

The 7mm was supposed to be released at the same time as the 270 but shortly before release it was discovered that it was possible to chamber and fire a 270 WSM round in a 7mm WSM rifle. The 7mm was delayed until a minor redesign prevented that.

By the time the 7mm reached shelves most who didn't want the 300 had already bought a 270. On paper at least I think it is a much better option than the 270 WSM, but I don't think it will ever catch up.

7wsm is alive and well at my place.

RIP.....

I shoot a 7 WSM with Berger 180 VLD's at the 1938 yard man size silhouette. I modified the throat of the reamer so I have .218 free bore that is .2843 diameter and a one and a half degree lead into the lands. 28 inch barrel and 69 grains of RL-25 produces 3150 FPS.

Never used one for hunting...yet!

My guess is Midway says it has been discontinued so they can jack the price sky high if it ever becomes available again without worrying about any notifications or backorders.

Edit: I just checked and got the same notification about .257 Rbts. brass.

I got one of the notifications for 325 brass too. Probably just Midway updating their computer system.

Thats smoking fast how many reloads are you getting on your brass?

Thats backwards, a 7WSM could be fitted into a 270 WSM chamber, the neck of the 270 chamber was/is large enough to allow an unexpanded 7WSM neck into the chamber and the bullet would squeeze into the throat, to prevent this they moved the shoulder ahead on the 7WSM by about .038" so the bolt wouldn't close on it if it were ever inserted in a 270WSM chamber. You can fire a 270 WSM in the 7WSM and 300WSM chamber and the case will expand to fill the larger chamber and the bullet will just rattle loosely down the barrel without causing any damage to the gun or shooter.

It isn't....that's the problem. And 300WSM brass isn't exactly sitting on the shelves collecting dust.

I got one on 284 Win brass as well. They haven't made it in so long.