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

Wow, Chaplin and Haskins.. Elmer's 338/378 came from there.. Outstanding.. Still in business????

No.

C&H no longer makes these rifles. They're still in Enid, OK, selling used guns, mostly high quality and a lot of big boomers. They also sell high end shotguns, work on those type guns.

Yep, Elmer was impressed and they built him a real special one with squared off trigger guard like a Ruger Superblackhawk.

Can't say I was too fond of how that looked, but the gun was a boomer, for sure. Elmer's kinda ordinance...

DF

Yeah this guy's rifle collection makes me sick he is always posting this porn just to rub it in .

And, you just seen some of'em...

DF

DF - that is one FINE looking rifle and if you ain't "lying" , it shoots.


However, at 9 #s my 'gun bearer' took off his vest and went looking for Mick. ..said I ain't carrying a cross tie.

Jerry

Not a mtn. rifle, but not bad. It's lighter than my hunting bud's Sendero. I asked him why he packed such a heavy gun. His reply, "Once I get it there, I know what it will do".

This gun carries and handles a lot better than it sounds. I do have lighter rifles, but only a select few that will shoot like this one.

So, it depends on the application, the hunt, the altitude, etc.

I like it on a Harris bipod for reaching out there. I've never taken it pronghorn hunting, prefer my .240 and 6.5's for that. But, it would do the job.

DF


Edited to add info on the Sendero. By bud named that gun E. F. as in E. F. Hutton. When E. F. speaks...

When that old gun speaks, stuff dies. He's not a Fire contributor, has no idea he's shooting an unmentionable round known by some to be "gay"...

And, I don't have the heart to tell him; he just keeps on killing stuff. The barrel's not that that pretty thru the Hawkeye, I'd swap it out. It just keeps on killing stuff...

Hard to talk about E. F. not being Kosher with critters hanging at the skinning shed...

I like that rifle, I had a Biesen that looked a lot like it.

Seems they were contemporaries, masters of their craft.

DR

The same the other way around for most situations and for some people all situations.

7mm 175NP will deliver in energy at 335-yd what the 06' 180NP does at 280-yd and 300win 180NP at 385-yd.

Sits in the middle of those two upper-lower 30cals in performance and recoil...whilst delivering a similar weight
higher penetrating bullet.

Its more gun than many owners need or ever fully utilise, which can also be said of some .270win or 30/06 owners.

The coolest thing about my Ruger Tang safety 7mm RM is the "Made in the 200th year of American liberty" on the barrel. I bought it new because the big 7 was what a physician friend used for elk and as a teenager I knew I wanted to hunt elk. The next best thing is that I've shot several groups of 3 shots that you could cover with a dime. The confidence that kind of accuracy brings isn't unique to just my 7, most of them shoot very well.

Mine only loves 150 grain bullets but it has killed more than 20 deer in San Diego County and several elk in Colorado since it started wearing Conquests many years ago everything out to 500+yards has dropped with the sound of the rifle. Early on I broke a few scopes- always at the wrong time.... but the rifle just performs.

I've got other rifles I hunt with these days but that 7 is just magic at killing game and making shots feel automatic. Smacking steel at 600 yards, or punching the white spot on a mule deer's throat at 211 yards the crosshairs always work to put the bullet where they meet.

I expect if I don't give it away before I drop dead the grandsons and sons in law will fight over it.

Just get a 280AI.

Vaya con Dios, Bob!

Love my German Voere Titan II 7 maggie. Classy and accurate as can be!

Mine goes hunting with me more often than not....

Burgess/Milliron

Beautiful rifle Whitebird!

I love the 7mm mags. I've got a 7mm WSM, Rem Mag and Mashburn. The Rem Mag was my first and it's always been an elk cartridge for me. Accurate and easy to load for.

Never seen any good 7mm Rem or WSM have any problems getting 3050 with a 160 or 2950 with a 175... It's always my suggestion for a hunter that wants a great BG cartridge that wants a little more than the 06 or 270 Win.

That's a weird ass looking front mount.

Awesome thread! I am going to put one together, a 24" Win 70 stainless much like my 300 Win Mag.

Have them both, and it is fun trading off from one rifle to another.. I like them both very much.. Great calibers..