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What ? Context, on the fire ?

incidentally I agree with you.

Jerry

I think this the 3rd X I've said this IN this thread.

I LIKE the 7-08. I have NO argument against it.

Jerry

R.O.T

Rate of twist.

someone asked about federal fusion 140 gr partition. My wife shot a pronghorn and 300 lb mule deer with those bullets, worked well. Sorry not an elk (yet, she'll get there!)

Had the factory barrel rechambered, I don't recall the factory twist. It shoots 120's, 140, and 145 equally well; not a tack driver but have killed bison to squirrels.

Another "different folks, different strokes" thread.

I like "different", so I don't mind chasing after duplicitous, overlapping, redundant, reinvented cartridges as it (mostly) keeps me out of trouble and in my Wife's good graces. I'm not in the business of championing any particular consumer product, to each his own I say. But I'm mostly indifferent to other folk and what they do.

I'm on my second 7-08, both have been Tikka's. I can't say that it kills any better than anything else that came from the .308 case, but it's super easy to load for and my new superlite has been more than accurate enough. I get 1/2 moa with varget and 120 bt's and shot easy1/2 inch with the hornady precision hunter this afternoon.
I bought it for my daughter and if I ever get done killing deer with it, I may give it to her.

You guess well. I was referring to the analogy of a good cartridge not necessarily being a top seller for a variety of reasons, one of which is in the continental US, there is little reason to own one.. But here, let me help you out some more:

CONTEXT:

Is this a 280 that you are showing Carmichael?

Nope that's a 223AI...

Of course BobinNH went to school with Don aka Savage99 aka Chuck Hawks.

Bob is BEYOND understanding that sheit changes over the years.


You figured out something in 1980, holy fu*cking balls, what a dumb SOB you are.

LMAO....so pathetic.

I don't know why you're so upset....I mean I used the 7/08 quite a bit and thought.....even back then....that it was one of the Top Five BG cartridges of all times...and I still firmly believe that.

Right?

I have a certain fondness for the 7-08, as my username reveals. The first big game rifle I had made with a good custom barrel is a LH short 700 with a Pac-Nor dup of the factory sporter contour. It was the first big game rifle that would shoot .5-.75" groups day in and day out. When I was living in western Oregon, I thought it was a perfect cartridge for the ranges I was shooting there.

I regard it as a more modern version of both the 7x57 (fits a short action better) and a .308 (less recoil paired with better BC bullets.) And before the fans of those cartridges wig out, I do have guns chambered for both of those rounds.

Now that I hunt more in UT, WY, MT, and CO, I tend to grab rifles chambered for cartridges like the .257 Wby or the 7mm Rem mag because I think they give me a little more range. But in reality, there is probably only one animal I have shot in the last decade for which the 7-08 would not have done the job just as well.

Im just surprised the first few pages went so smooth. Lol.....

Steelhead is correct though.....things did change....like the shape of the case that propelled the bullet to the same exact velocity as a 7X57

I've found that the 7mm-08 is much like the 308 in that it's not fussy, doesn't burn a lot of powder, and does not need premium bullets to work very well on game. Never owned a 7x57, but it sounds like it has also done a lot with a little. I think the 7mm-08 is best in handy rifles with 22" or shorter barrels.

+1, my favorite cartridge over the last 10 years. Accurate, doesn't kick much and just kills well. I have not experimented with a lot of bullets and have done so well with the Hornady 154 RN and SP, its difficult to try anything else. I do like the 308 as well, but have a soft spot for the 7

I own or have owned 4, longest barrel on any was 21". Does well as do all 308 based rounds in carbine form

As far as a bruised shoulder from shooting, its not the cartridge

I have gone through 4 or 5, 7mm-08s, but the one that I still own is a 7x57 from Melvin Forbes.

donsm70

I have a couple of7MM-08"s several 7X57's and a 308. I can't recall a deer (white tail or muley) or antelope that has cared what he got shot with, he just died. That being said I also have a fondness for the 257R.