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Since acquiring my first chronograph, my counsel to friends looking for an all around rifle that don’t handload was a 7mm RM. For those that do handloads, I remain a fan of the 06. New powders and bullets make the 06 more versatile. Personally, I’ve not owned the RM as I skipped over it to the STW. 160 Accubonds at 3300+ are awesome on deer and adequate on elk (I prefer 340/338 and 210 Partitions for elk). I did pick up a 7mm-08 for my boys (youth model) and it is dead reliable on deer (I’ll even admit to using it myself now and again). I’m a growing fan of the 270wsm and 140 Accubonds at 3200+. It may prove to be my favorite deer/prairie goat rifle, and know it work on elk in a pinch.

At any distance I'm likely to shoot while hunting, when Moose, Black Bear or Deer stop dying when hit with 150gr Partitions or BT's from my .280 Rem or 7-08 for that matter I might ramp up the 7mag.

We'd all have a hard time finding rifles, and ammo if....
Everybody liked and used the SAME firearm.


Jerry

Then, what would we have to argue about...?

DF

and not get to display good looking rifles .

30-06 and 7mm Rem mag are my two favorite rounds and nothing is even close.

I have a 270 WSM also and also shoot 140 bullets. It’s very very good, less recoil than the 7 mag in my opinion. It’s a Remington 700

My gun shoots faster, flatter, & harder than your rifle.


Jerry

Not everyone can handle, or even want to, a 340 Wby or 338 Win Mag.

I would argue that most people don’t need to, either, but that’s another subject. If you can handle the recoil, why not.





P

How does it feed? I had 2 700 CDL-SF's in .270 WSM a couple years apart. The idea was good but for me they were the roughest feeding rifles I ever owned ... out of a couple hundred. I hoped the first one was just a problem gun. The 2nd was no better, maybe worse.

I hope yours is better.

Tom

It feeds just fine. I have a couple, no issues at all.

Man. I shot an elk with my xxxx caliber and it hit him SO HARD, I saw it KNOCK the ticks off!!


Jerry

Yeah but it didn't split and quarter him like my xxxxx did

yeah but we don't have elk in Ms so I need a really long range rifle so I can hunt without leaving my yard.

I watched my dad shoot a 4x4 bull with his .30-06 several years ago. We were hunting in the rain. I had my scope on 6x, I was maybe 100 yards from the bull. When the 165 grain bullet hit him I saw the water from his hide just explode. It was cool.




P

It had been raining early that morning I shot this Buck and he came out of a thicket.
He was wet and the ground IS wet in the pic.



Seriously, Honestly, at the shot I saw hair & moisture like a puff on his off side. No Kidding.
Similar has happened a few times under the right conditions.

Yes, it is cool.


Jerry

Yeah...but my rifle makes "red mist" fly off 'em! When my Marine SIL came home from Iraq in 2006, the following Feb I took him with me on a cow elk hunt. The road was closed due to a big snow so we went to the desert, shot jackrabbits. I had given him a 22-250. It was about 4 deg were we were at, and at sundown (shooting into the sun) when he hit a jack it blew a 'cloud" of steam out the other side! Crazy cool.

I’m beginning to feel the deer Season opening excitement even though it’s a 100 degrees outside. It’s 2 1/2 months until bow season starts. I have 6 or 8 rifles I need to sight in before rifle season starts.

Well, don't tell anyone (shhhhhh), it is good to read and discuss something other than.......


xxxxxxx ! ! ! (edited, I'm sorry I wasn't P C)


Yeah, I'm really looking forward to hunting my T3X 7 RM. We are HOT in the Wx department and when it's reasonable I have some load development to try and get the scope properly sighted.


Jerry

I need to load some 300 Weatherby’s soon. I have one, buying another.

Sorry, I just lost control for a minute.

Jerry