Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Biggest return on your investment 6.5mm or 7mm?

I actually have never owned a rifle chambered in any 7mm caliber. The vast majority of big game I've killed was with a .270. I bought in 1972 with calf money when I was 13 and semi-retired it when I got my 6.5x55 five or six years ago.

For 99.99% of the hunting I've done and will do it would not matter whether the caliber is .264, .277 or .284.

It's most definitely a geography thing. Lots of Subaru driving women in Oregon for sure. But even those interested in men have often have a PITA attitude. Obviously this is worse in urban areas than rural.

Poked In The A**?

nine pages, and in nine pages the 8RM was only mentioned once and I have yet to see a reference to a 35 caliber...

I have just recently jumped on the 6.5 bandwagon with a .260. So far, I am impressed, but it does not hold a candle to my 7 mag for elk punching.

The .260 is now my favorite deer shooter, edging out my .308s, but I have shot too many elk with 160 Partitions3000 fps out of the 7 mag, to ever consider pushing it aside for a 6.5.

Both have their place, for sure and both will kill. I just like a little more punch for bigger stuff.