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For got.. I am 72!!

When I bring a rifle instead of a bow my M77 MKII 7mm RM is my “out west” and Alaska rifle. 56 yoa

67. The 7 RM was my first elk rifle. Back then I hunted a lot more and shot a lot less. I killed 7 bull elk with the first box of 160 Speer mag tips I bought. Rifle was a Mauser Mark X and purchased the Barreled action for $125 and stocked it myself.. 6X Leopold. Elk were killed in NW MT in heavy timber. Worked as expected but a 308 would have done the same
Went on to a 300 Mag and it worked as well but not better. Now I hunt with a 308 Kimber MT. Age, rifle weight, and brass were my considerations. My Palma rifle is a 308 so it was an easy choice.
7 mag is a great elk round. Lacks the great brass of some others..and current hype. So, I'm a fan but have no use for it now.

I was 19 and working on a diary farm when I bought a Pre-Garcia Sako 7mm Mag for my first elk hunt. It was also the
first rifle I loaded for, along with the first use of Partitions.

It was used for several years, but other chamberings caught my eye,
And I haven't shot it since about 1991.

It sits in the safe along with a T3 Hunter and a Model-77 left hand (WTF) that
were picked up cheap. All 7-mags.

I have been hoping to find a deal on a T3 lite cheap, want to try it with
120gr BT's for deer. IT would be the one perfect deer rifle!
Don't want to used the Hunter, it's never been shot.

Yep, rifle insane.

PS. 50 years old.

65, only owned one. A BSA CF2. Took a Caribou on Adak Island with the BSA. Have a scar on my eyebrow when I crawled the stock prone..

40 years old

Just a deer hunter, never been out west for bigger game. The 7mag is my favorite though, they have worked great for me. Cutover, bean fields, hardwood bottoms, or pine thickets it just always works. I hunted with a 30-06 and 308 for years, but the 7mag is easier for me to shoot accurately from 200 to 300 yards. I keep several deer rifles, but I just hunt with one, my Model 700 7mag.

Welcome to the Fire.

DF

I'm 61 and soon to be 62. I own 4 7mm RM's. A Gunwerks Revic, 2 Browning A-Bolts (one BOSS and one non-BOSS), unfortunately, I just inherited the BOSS from my father and a Sako A7S. I shot my first elk in Colorado in 1996 with the Composit A-Bolt shooting Federal Premium ammo with 160 grain Nosler Partitions.

I also own a Winchester Extreme Weather in 7mm WSM, does that count?

59, 7mm saum

58, I own and love the 7mm Remington Magnum. I hunt Georgia and Alabama and the 7mm Rem Mag works great on whitetail in the southeast.

Mine is a Ruger 77 MK/II stainless laminated.

My wife has used her 7 Rem Mag for 25 years. She is 65.

Thank you Dirtfarmer!

Bought my first one in 1985. I am 54 years old. Lots of deer elk and hogs died.

Have several.... one of my favorites. 53.

Had one in a Browning A-bolt synthetic. Worst kicking SOB rifle I've ever owned. Chalked it up to stock design and weight.
A Nosler Partition 160gr completely passed through a standing telephone pole at 60yds. Long story on that one.
I'm 55.

Age 59
6'2" 235lbs
White male

Bought my first 7mag in Lubbock, TX in 1979, a Ruger M77. I left the gun shop that day with the rifle, a Leupold Vari X II, a couple boxes of 160 partitions, and a Lee handloading kit that cost $20. I replaced that rifle in 1998 with a Tikka 695 Whitetail that came with OptiLock mounts for $425. I've lost count of the animals I killed with the great 7mag/partitions/accubonds, and it's followed me to several US states, MX, and Africa. I still use it every year, but not as much as I used to.

HaHa,I had a Browning A-Bolt too,but mine was a 300 Win Mag.I agree it was the worse kicking SOB I've ever owned.It would leave a mark.Changed the pad and that made a huge difference.

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.

That probably didn’t help much. 😉

Oh, and 70.

8 Pages in just 10 hrs???? This CV-19 has certainly changed a few things.

But just to stay on topic; my all time favorite cartridge is the (orphaned) 7WSM. I've use it to take a truckload of whitetails and a beautiful red stag. Most were one-and-done kills. Currently using the 143 Hammer bullet with very good effect.

I see you’re more of a 7-08 man these days, leaving your big 7 in the safe.

Sorta there myself. My 7-08 kills stuff just as dead, kicks less.

DF