Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting 7mm Remington Magnum is rockin on !

I'm using 72 grains of MagPro under a 160 NAB, where did you get the 71.5 grains of Retumbo? I have a ton of Retumbo.




P

What a great morning at the range with my friend, and fellow member here, huntr.
My 7 mag, rocked 1st round hits at 700, 800, 400, 500, and 300.
Our range. Up on the crest of the hill is a round white plate, that's 900, the berm to the right, has a round 18 inch plate, and a ram.
That's 800.
straight back from the 2 track is 700, to the right, big white square is 550, in front right, 2 diamonds, is 500.

Wind is almost always a factor.

Excellent thread and pics.

Thanks.
This might clear up what's where.

Awesome setup range! Great shooting. I think I'd choose the 7mm for the coues hunt!

Now that's a range!

Love the 7, good shooting splatt.

Not to pee in the pool, as I have both, but I get 2913 and low ES from a 180 Partition from a .30-06, so what can the 7 Rem Mag do that the .30-06 can't, and with 13 grains less powder?




P

I have 3, -06's.
Don't know ?
I didn't put this 7 mag together as a wonder cartridge. If I would have wanted to keep it as a super duper, long range gun, I would have left it as a 300 RUM.
I'm just giddy I can shoot it well, and it's going to be doing duty as my all around coues deer rifle.
I don't feel it's much different than my 280AI, and less than a 300 wsm I have.
It's a cartridge I like, a bullet that performs, and a gun I'm comfortable with.
Plus pride of "designing", and putting together a rifle to my specs.

There's many a cartridge out there that far exceeds the performance of a 7mm Remington Magnum.
I like this one, and what I put together to shoot it in.

Good grief, those are 300 WM numbers.

Oh, and it does have 1/2 the drift with the right bullet. But then stuff can just keep getting worked backwards because 160AB in a 7RM isn't far from a 140AB in a 270.


Sooooo, carry an 8# 7RM or a 6.5# 270?


Quite the conundrum.

2913 is big number for the 30-06. Nothing wrong with that, but definitely at upper limits of pressure. The 7mm 180 scenar has a .661 bc so for shooting stuff past 500 yards for us, it does good things. Use whatever floats your boat.

Very fortunate to have such a nice place to shoot. Great shooting by the way. 7 Rem Mag has always been one of my favorites.

This is about half way down the line of benches. It's pretty much in line with the 100 yard sight in board.
This is my 280AI, banging steel on this day.

338 RUM this day.

30/06, getting some range time.

I thought so too.

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/11203416




P

30-06 and partitions wins.

Not a big 7mm fan but I've seen it work on moose many times ....
My old mans favorite though, he has put a boatload of moose to sleep with one in the last 30 years, last fall I had a chance to take my dad on a moose hunt to my happy hunting grounds and he put his 7mm RM to work on a nice bull with the 160 gr Fail Safe bullet .....

good times........

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-rrlAo-HyM

Well...we can say this and that beats a 7Rem Mag but that bull looked pretty dead to me.

Which is the way most stuff ends up, properly hit with a good bullet from a 7 RM.

I wonder if that's one of the fluted 7mm barrels that came from my stash? I've got one left and its loosely screwed into a 700 action in a box in my basement. I need to put it in the barrel vise and wrench it down and see what it'll do.

Bb

It came from member, Tanner.