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Small world, been thinkin about a 25-06 for awhile now.100gr TSX to boot.
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I reckon my wife could give an "opinion of 7mm-08 rem. vs 308" as well as most. She's a ranch girl, with family properties in 2 western states. When we married a quarter century ago she'd taken a quantity of deer, elk, antelope and bear to make many on here swoon - yet also had a flinch beyond belief from an ill fitting old-style wood stocked Model 700 ADL in .270 that had beat her unmercifully for years. This was because a Savage in 308 was too horribly painful! I bought her a Ruger M77 RL Ultralight in .250 Savage to cure her ills, and eventually she lost the flinch (a dozen or so deer, 3 elk and assorted antelope, bear, cougar along the way.) Then, we bought her a Mountain Rifle in 7-08, and it was love at first shot. She used that rifle for 5 years, 2 trips to Africa included, never lost an animal, and needed followups only twice, At that point, we bought her a Pre "N" ULA in 7-08, which is now through it's original Douglas barresl at 3200ish rounds, a POS Hart that was dumped at 410ish and is 1200ish into its current PacNor - with multiples of some 3 dozen species to speak for it.
TRY to convince her the 7-08 isn't magic...
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I've long said that it brings the most "Oooomph" to the plate,weighing give and take.
Mainly because that is how the ball bounces.
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It would TOTALLY blow many "expert's" minds that I convinced her to move up to the 7-08 through popping a couple hundred rounds through my Wichita silhouette pistol, boinking 200 meter Rams - and it was not only pretty easy, it was FUN...
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25-06AI is where it's at.
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I should upload some more XP-100 7-08 longrange stuff on Critters.
"Impressive" don't scratch the surface.
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Damn, here I thought my 270 was an improved 7mm *wink
Guess I have to trade my lefty remington M700 .270Win for a lefty saavage in 7mm-08??? *teasin' you a bit here.
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Yerk the 270 pipe and opt a 280AI tube and live a little.
You know you want to.(grin)
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Stick, In your opinion, if a guy already has a nice shooting 308( I know, big mistake ) what would you use for a high BC hunting bullet that would have good or at least acceptable long range ballistics?
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That is possible, Mikey. Hey, did you get my PM yesterday??
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Nope never did but will go check.Been chatting with BobinNH so prolly overlooked it.
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I like ole Bob-O.
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Yup good dude one of the guys I always look forward to talking with.
Gonna have to resend lost it in transition.
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No worries, I was just checking in with ya yesterday...
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I own three 7mm-08s, and two each of 308s and .243s. The 7mm-08 has significently more recoil than the .243 but certainly not punishing. My Rem. Mod 7 in 7mm-08 is the rifle I reach for most often. Light, sweet, responsive, weather resistant, short range or long range. It does it all.
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I too have a 243 and just had my Model 7 243 rebarreled with a 22" MR 708 barrel. I cant tell if it has much more recoil now than before. I can't be more pleased with the little rifle. Remington should put 22" mountain rifle barrels on the 7. This gun makes a wonderful little light package.
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I'm neck deep in very nice shooting 308Win's myself,so feel your pain.
What's "long range"?
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