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Big fan of the 7 Rem Mag and have been around plenty of game that's been shot with it, but it seems as though most of the folks I hang around are drifting to the 6.5's rather quickly. Maybe we're not tough enough for it, though.

They'll come back to the 7-mm Remington Mag.
It's a great round. And, so are a lot of others.

I have one 7-mm Mag. Getting ready to build another. I'll prolly give it to my son when it's done.

Here is a little history of this great cartridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S3wXF9XDs

I O W - too many are pansified ! YEP

....................................................... my ideas and feelings are not PC so unposted.! !

Jerry

Jerry,

Who started that rumor about you not being P.C...??



DF

D F

I really don't know but a 'few' folk come to mind.

I'm just trying to be careful, ya know.

Jerry

The current term for those uncomfortable with 7 RM levels of recoil would be "dainty handed fancy folk". Please try to be more sensitive in the future

Okay.... but I think you are being too KIND.

To those of you dealing with Age, Injuries, & other Health issues are NOT considered in my descriptions. I really am sorry for any liabilities that prevent folks from hunting/shooting what they want.


Whiners, Criers, Wimps, Wusses are the most P C nice descriptions I can think of off hand. Others come to mind quickly tho.





This T 3 X Lite SS 7 Mag is my newest acquisition, 2/2018 so I am anxiously looking forward to hunting it this Fall.
I know I'll start the season with it and MAY hunt the whole season with it. I have a couple of other rifle/cartridge combos that I haven't killed many deer with SO I'll cross that bridge during season. My Win 70 Black Shadow 300 WM may very well get out this yr.



The last year I hunted any 7 Mag was 2014. During the season I drug this (Left) 700 Syn 7 RM out just because I wanted to.
I took the scope off of it and put it on the Tikka.





The first morning I hunted the Syn, this Old 'cull' came out and I felt obliged to remove him from the herd. (fraudeen slip - grin)
He is laying on a hillside and I moved him around for the pic,






Yeah, I know, I killed him TOO DEAD !


Jerry

The 7mm Rem magnum is a historically great round and the first of the magnums I played with during my magnum mania days. I eventually settled on the 160 grain partitions and a max load of about 58 grains of IMR 4350 if my memory serves. That combo shot well in both rifles I had at the time.

Eventually I moved on from the 7 mag and spent years playing with both the 280 Rem and 7mm-08.

These days if I were to go back to hunting with any of these rounds I would surely pick the 7mm-08. But with my featherweight 6.5 x 55 Swede in my hand I don't feel the need to do that.

All good stuff.

I'll go with the (tried, true and universal) 30-06. It'll do anything the 7mm Magnum will - and then some (with heavier bullets).

Nice old deer. He did need to be removed from the breeding pool.

Still an interesting deer.

DF

Thnx D F.

I've killed multiple deer (Doe & Bucks) every year on the 70 acres I'm hunting. Every buck I've shot was the FIRST time I saw it (them).
I can't tell the Does apart <grin>.
The property is surrounded on 3 sides by other owners. The deer come and go at will.

Last year I shot this guy while he was trailing 1 of 2 Does. He was 20 or so yards behind them with his nose on the ground.



I didn't know his left antler was broken till I killed him. My 98 in 284 did him in. I wish he hadn't been broken but he makes an interesting buck as well. He was a fighter.

Jerry

Some years ago, I killed a nice young buck with one antler. We cull hard and if we don’t want’em breeding, we eat’em.

This buck had broken his antler, wasn’t a genetic cull. I felt sorta bad, but ground checking them tells the story.

I’d rather cull first, ask questions later.

DF

Neither was the buck in the last pic. I was on my sticks looking at him with his head down coming toward me on a hard angle. I knew he was trailing 1 of the does but I didn't see the broken antler.

The buck in the first pic was a diff situation. He was in an open pasture with his head up. I could tell he was an adult with good mass BUT
was narrow & high. I had to look CLOSE to see a 3rd point -- we have 3 pt on 1 side minimum legal buck. I did NOT see the little eye guard on his left side but could see the right one.

Both bucks weighed in the 170-175 lb range. I recorded their weights but am going from memory.

Since I can't control anything OFF the acreage I'm hunting, I can't do much good culling but I do what I can.

This year I NEED to remove quite a few Does. My relatives told me yesterday that they were running over w/Does and babies.
Maybe I'll get to ring out the Tikka 7 Mag.


Jerry

Not questioning your probable efforts, once I learned Wby’s like deeper seated bullets my accuracy attempts became much more predictable.

My favorite.... Burgess/Milliron 7mm Rem Mag.

If you are thinking that I am running my loads on the ragged edge, I’m not. I don’t do that. That 140 load @ 3200 is very docile & a pleasure to shoot. It has a 23” barrel.

280 AI weighs 6:15
7 Wby weighs 8:4

My 7 Wby runs 140’s @ 3400 without indigestion, .75 moa. It has a 24” barrel.

Doubt it.



Yeah, 180s and 195s around 3000fps are a lot more fun to shoot than 140s at similar speeds. Real men shoot 338s and bigger.