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I owned one for a bit, I special ordered a remington model 7, it didn't shoot for [bleep] and I lost the wood lottery on it, so I sold it. The next guy bedded it and it shot worse, so he sold it!
first of 3 model 7's I dumped but thats besides the point.
They are all but giving away the Kimber adirondacks in 7mm-08 for $1199 I've seen a few Kimber Montana's on GunBroker sell for ~$750
It just seems the caliber does alot of really good things, fills a great role, but nobody wants one? Too many of them out there? 6.5 Creedmoor the flavor of the week?
No makey no sense to me, can someone help out?
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i like em. Got three rifles in 7mm-08
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Brad beat me to it.  Lots of love for the 7-08 here. Enough so that this skeptic(me) is thinking very hard about one in a Kimber Montana. Edit: that being said, OP you could be right about the new 6.5 CM taking some potential sales from the 7-08?
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No love? You must not spend much time on 24hr Campfire. The 7mm-08 is extremely popular here. East, West, North, and South. I would bet that if a poll were taken, it would be in the top five or six.
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why no love for the 7mm-08??? Because there is a 7X57 that seems to get most of my attention in 7mm's  Otherwise it's a pretty good cartridge.
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Because there is a 7X57 that seems to get most of my attention in 7mm's This. RM
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Because there is a 7X57 that seems to get most of my attention in 7mm's This. RM Yeah, me too.  Paul B.
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The 7x57 is the 7-08 Improved...no fire forming needed...:)
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The 7x57 is the 7-08 Improved...no fire forming needed...:) But a Long Action is needed. 
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A mauser action is neither long nor short...but just right...:)
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A mauser action is neither long nor short...but just right...:)
That's what my M1999 "short" action is: the box is 3.125 inches - an intermediate length...perfect for the old round.
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I've got a 700 Mountain Rifle in 7mm-08. Shoots under MOA.
About the only other rifle currently in the safes I'd rather carry when the going is steep and far, is my Montana in 308.
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that has elk written all over it...:)
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regarding love...both of my kids shoot 7mm-08 by way of a 700 MR and Kimber 84 and have an early 60's Browning bolt chambered so, here.
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If I could only have one caliber rifle it would be the 7mm-08. Very nice caliber and ive owned several chambered in it.
It just seems the caliber does alot of really good things, fills a great role, but nobody wants one? Too many of them out there? 6.5 Creedmoor the flavor of the week?
No makey no sense to me, can someone help out?
There are a lot of them out there being used. They just dont get all the hype the newer stuff gets. Gun manufacturers have to constantly be coming up with something different to sell new guns. If they didnt we would all probably do like our grandfathers and great grandfathers who just owned one or two calibers their whole lives. Someone forgot to tell them that they needed the latest and greatest caliber out to kill something. The 7mm-08 is a gun you could buy for a pre teen and use factory off shelf low recoil rounds, and then step to the regular stuff and use the rest of their lives. Just as the 6.5 is being praised as the best round ever, but the 260 rem which is almost perfectly identical and been around for years is overlooked. Its all in the marketing.
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I owned one for a bit, I special ordered a remington model 7, it didn't shoot for [bleep] and I lost the wood lottery on it, so I sold it. The next guy bedded it and it shot worse, so he sold it!
first of 3 model 7's I dumped but thats besides the point.
They are all but giving away the Kimber adirondacks in 7mm-08 for $1199 I've seen a few Kimber Montana's on GunBroker sell for ~$750
It just seems the caliber does alot of really good things, fills a great role, but nobody wants one? Too many of them out there? 6.5 Creedmoor the flavor of the week?
No makey no sense to me, can someone help out?
6.5 Creed is the flavor of the week. But I wouldn't get rid of a 7-08 for one.
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Like 284 Win. In a bolt gun its remarkable! I have one in a FN action that always impresses me!
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I thought this was a joke....
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