Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Demise of 7mm Rem. Mag. Market driven or marketing?

I had a 7Mag for 20 years, killed lots of moose with it. Now I have a 3006 to replace it as my light rifle. The modern 06 is as effective,if not more versatile than any 7,and it weighs less, is shorter, and has less muzzle blast. in a Sako is as accurate as the REM 700

Never came across a 7mm Rem Mag yet that I couldn't get to shoot well. I love them.

I don't know much about the 7mm mag because I have only shot seven deer with it. However I can tell you that those seven deer have gone a total of twenty one feet after they were shot and that twenty one feet includes the distance that it took them to fall on the ground.

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There are lots of good cartridges to choose from, the 7mm Remington is one of them!
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Bump for a good thread..

7mm Remington Magnum isn't going anywhere. It'll be around for as long as people own rifles. Look at the 30-30. I'll bet marketing specialist,and engineers are still wondering about that.LOL

Like many people here. Most of my hunting was done with a .30-06.
Most of my handloading experience is with that too. It's killed everything I've ever shot. But then so has everything else I've ever fired at anything.


My current beat the bushes rifle. Remington 700 circa March 1966 factory blued stainless steel barrel. (Shiny!) 7mm Remington Magnum.

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My newest toy.. Sako Finnbear L61R. Circa 71-72
Apparently something of an oddity. Late date 3lug bolt. Very very sweet on the longer shots. 7mm Remington Magnum..

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The 7mm Uber Mags? While I think they are somewhat interesting.I myself don't think they'll ever supplant the 7mm RM. At least not as a hunting round. (Some will disagree and they are welcome to.) I've got five good reasons for thinking thus. But to explain would go well beyond the scope of this thread..

the 7mm rem mag is here to stay. probably in the top 3 of rifles used in the western states (30-06, 300 win mag, 7mm rem mag). the other 7's aren't even close, nor will they ever be.

Looking back, I gotta say the Warren Page did a hell of a job selling 7mm Mags. His was the Mashburn version, but there really isn't a whole lot of difference between it and other belted 7mm Mags.
As a college kid in the early to mid 1950's, I drooled over having a 7mm mag, a belted one, based on my midnight reading of Page's African adventures with his 7mm Mag. So, I got one as soon as I could afford it.
Mine came 6 years before Remington came out with theirs.
I now have one 7mm Rem Mag, and I won't be selling it in favor of some WSM.

Winchester should chamber their rifles for the same cartridges that their sister gun company does. Their current lineup of cartridges does nothing for me. The 7MM rem mag is one of my favorite cartridges ever and a lot of fellow hunters feel the same way and it is not going away anytime soon.

That will happen with any cartridge as popular as the 7mm RM has been.

A while back I read a "Global warming" story where the "evidence" to support the theory was that someone was quoted as saying that in recent years they had started to see greater numbers of dead polar bears on ice floes. I guess the thought was that the bears were having to swim further and the longer swims were just too much for them in the long run. The truth is, that the person quoted may well have been seeing more dead polar bears - not because of global warming but because the polar bear population has been and still is increasing significantly.

I wouldn't consider 7mm RM's on the used rack as a sign that the cartridge is dying - it is still one of the most popular in terms of ammo and rifle sales. My first centerfire rifle was a 7mm RM back in 1982 and it is still one of my favorites. When it comes time to thin the herd it will be one of the last to go.

My guess is Winchester is wanting to sell more WSMs so they can sell more WSM ammo. The 7mm RM will do everything the WSMs can do and given the much wider selection of factory ammo, would get my vote for a new rifle. As a handloader, I still prefer the 7mm RM.

I also prefer the longer, older versions of the ShortMags, in both 7 and 30 caliber.

I guess familiarity makes it hard to buy into a "reinvention", though some of the merits of the ShortFats are viable.

have a 7mm WSM in a Kimber Montana

also have a 7mm RM in a Winchester Laredo.

love 'em both. and i'm a .264 slut

I was unaware of any demise of the 7mmRM. IMO that's not happening.

"My guess is Winchester is wanting to sell more WSMs so they can sell more WSM ammo"

CH: I have no inside info, but I would doubt that this is correct since the maker of Winchester rifles is an entirely differeent company than the maker of Winchester ammo.

For the "demise" to occur the existing 7mm Rem Mag rifles would have to cease to exist. That is not going to happen. This brings us to the real issue which is that rifles stay in existence for a very long time. Rifles don't wear out or get destroyed.. Remington has been producing the M700 7RM for 46 years. Most are still out there working quite well.

Just went to the safe and checked mine. It's still OK. Maybe the board just doesn't want to offer up something with rhe word Remington stamped on it.

I'm in the minority I guess. Never could warm up to the 7RM. Had one and traded it for my 35 Whelen. Haven't looked back either. Several years later, I bought a 270 WSM as my open country rifle. Went with the WSM as I wanted a 270 "something" and that is what I chose. Those are my go to rifles, love them both though I do have a few others.

My hunting partner just bought a 7 RM to replace his 30/06. He is quite happy with it, two deer for two shots as of last week.
He dosen't see the 7 RM going away anytime soon. FWIW, I don't either.

Had a couple and just never warmed up to them. Have noticed they are about the most difficult caliber to try to sell in a used rifle for the last couple of years.
Not a bad round, but the 300 Win Mag does more.

True, but I think there is still a license agreement in place between the two companies.

Yeah, that was my thought as well...

I doubt the 7 Rem Mag is going anywhere. Maybe the general public is bored with it right now due to all the other stuff out there but it will stay. Just like the 30-06 which went through the same phase not that long ago. All you could find was plain Jane ammo but finally a little resurgence in popularity around it's 100 yr. mark made ammo companies load better ammo for it. It's popularity has hit a plateau but it will be an old stand by for a very long time and be a classic cartridge just like the 06', 270, 30-30 and the rest of the time tested rounds. Personally I like the .280 Remington better but I still respect the 7mm Remington Mag and wouldn't rule out buying a good used one. It's about as much as I would want in a 7mm caliber. The bigger 7's are a bit too much. Just my humble opinion.