Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles The 7mm Rem Mag thoughts.

Love my M700, but don't tell Dogshooter.

Why not just get a .270.... it's the same thing... just ask 'bore....

Depending on the bullet, of course.....

On a spreadsheet....

At distances most people kill most game there ain't a lick of difference between most cartridges.





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Don't get him started. A 7mag with 140 Corlokts will smoke a 270 with 140 NAB's. On paper.....


Pharm, keep that stuff under your hat. You're trying to start a riot. Rascal.

For long range shooting/hunting, for me defined as past 500 yards, I really like my fast twisted 7 shooting 195s.

Big 7's are great. I have had 3, Wby Rem and Dakota but generally more "gun" than a guy needs. But then it's about want not need.

7 mag, 280, 7mm/08 I won't knock any of them, but the big 7 offers more versatility
for those that require it.

reduced load of 51gn with 175gn gives 2500mv for youths,
or ramp it up to full potential for those who shoot it well...

The 7mmRM in the safe was my late wife's favorite big game rifle.. She killed everything from antelope through moose with it..
I used it on a bunch of game before she took it over.. Great round and a special rifle for me.. I usually take something each fall with it just because.. I like the .30's a tad better.. The one thing I think handicaps the big 7 is often it is made with a short magazine box and a long throat.. So the bullet can never be seated out far enough to be a top performer.. My 7 is on a 700 and works like a charm..

Thanks guys. I haven't owned a 7mm Rem Mag because of what I own above and below the scale. It is true a 270 Win can do 95% of the tasks a 7mag can do for 95% of users but the 270 isn't a 7mm mag clearly. Honestly I pit it up more to the 300 WM as a world class cartridge because categorically I'd be shooting the same game and both are very capable cartridges. One thing is for sure though the 7mm recoils less.

an 8lb 7mag shooting a 160 accubond around 3100fps, is an easy to carry rifle that really kills about as far away as anyone needs to shoot,

i have been thru about every cartridge from the 243 up to the 375's for a dedicated all around prairie dog to moose rifle i havent shot anything that was significantly better,,,

and i have gotten rid of a lot of rifles and cartridges to load for, makes life simpler with less choices,,,

I have sold some myself, still have too many. I just like rifles. Pistols and shotguns are OK, but I have always liked a high powered rifle. I like the idea of hitting something way out there. I have bought 2 or 3 for the last 40 years. Sako L-61's Kleinguenthers, Pre-64 model 70's and 700's are my favorites. Never had a Ruger, I have a couple Savage 6.5 Creedmoors, I'm impressed how accurate they are. A fellow just can't have too many. It helps to have a wife that likes rifles also. This thread is making me want to buy another. I have a journal to keep up with round counts, loads for each, when the last time I checked scope to see if it's on, etc

My opinion of the 7mm RM is biased by the fact that my first centerfire was a 7mm RM, back in '82. It remained my only big game bolt rifle for 20+ years and my last elk was taken with one in 2015.

During that time my 7mm Rm has been used for light varminting (great target practice), antelope, deer and elk. The 7mm RM can shoot flatter and deliver more down-range energy and velocity than a .30-06 with similar recoil. (Actual recoil can be more or less depending on the loads compared.)

Although I now have four .30-06 rifles in my safe, along with a variety of of rifles chambered for larger and smaller cartridges, the last to go will be the 7mm RM.

Just curious, on most factory rifles are you able to load the 7mm to take advantage of some of the newer bullets like the 168 grain Berger VLD or the 175 grain Hornady 175 ELD-X? Or are most of the mag boxes a little short?

My first big game rifle was a stainless Ruger paddle stock 7mm mag and I loved it. I thought it was the hammer of Thor and used it and only it for years and years, from 1996 to 2010ish. Then I found internet forums and realized how wrong I was and that I needed this that or another and sold it. Seven years later I'm realizing I should have just stayed with the 7mm and one rifle and been done with it. I'd have a ton of cash and about 5,000 hours of wasted internet time back.

This thread's like role call.

Remington 700's pillar bedded in a solid stock will amaze you in how accurate they are in the 7 Mag. This is a very, very inherently accurate cartridge.

A custom with a match chamber in it with a 28" barrel will astound most in accuracy and speed.

Remmies are right, at least with 162's and 180 Scenars. Kiss with plenty of room.

And interesting, oddly, mine shoots 162 Amax, 120 TSX, and 140 Corlokts the same POI/POA at 100 yds.

Yeah, I said Corlokts.

What is it going to accomplish that your 300 WM can't?

Kaiser Norton