John, I haven’t had or much less hunted with the “big” 7mm mag since the eighties, as I sampled about every cartridge I could over over a period of time. I actually had a Rem model 700 BDL that was born a 7 mm RM, became a 300 Win Mag, became a 338 Win Mag, became a 340 Wby Mag. But I dither.
I still have fond memories of the many deer I took in the Dakotas with “the 7” with the 150-gr Nos Part in the ‘80’s, probably as much or more for my nostalgia for those times as much as for the cartridge, which killed deer just fine. I liked it, but too many cartridges, too little time.
I do remember chrono’g some factory ammo at the time that left me non-plussed — they barely shaded some 270 loads. Chronographs are the shooters’ polygraph.
