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I'd like to do a little survey: How many of you are fans of the 7mm Remington Magnum, or just regularly hunt with one? I'd also like to know your age.
Am working on an article involving 7mm big game rounds. 68 years old and genuinely dislike the 7mm mag. The worst part is I have no good reason why, just don’t even though it’s a great cartridge. Maybe I was just spoiled bu my old 7x61 sharp and hart,. I like rounds with longer necks
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I'd like to do a little survey: How many of you are fans of the 7mm Remington Magnum, or just regularly hunt with one? I'd also like to know your age.
Am working on an article involving 7mm big game rounds. I'm 76 and like my 7mm Rem Mag.
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Creeping up on 68. Many years back Dan Lilja built me a 7mm mag on an older Rem 700 action using one of his stainless, #3 26" barrels. MPI stock and Leupold 2.5 - 8 scope. Most accurate rifle I own - cloverleaf groups are the norm. Reloads on brass previously fired in this rifle produce extremely concentric ammo ... less than .002" is the norm. Like many on this site I own far more rifles than needed. Years from now when I thin the herd this fine rifle will be among the last to go.
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I'm 68 and I like it. My son must like it better than me; he borrowed it a few years ago and still has it.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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%8, Love it, it's my "go to " gun. Looking at a Carmen Mountain Hunt this winter, yup 7 mag it is, Bought mine when I got orders to AK, Wanted a 300 but got a great deal on a 7mm.
Alaska, Africa, Arizona, of course Georgia and Texas.. Does it all...
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55, a fan of the 7RM and regularly hunt/ target shoot with this chambering.
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I had one for a few months a few years ago, a Model 70 Sporter I bought off gunbroker, but Redneck took it and made it into a .300 H&H. I’m 40, and that’s the only magnum I’ll ever have.
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I'd expect most folks answering a poll like this would be fans. Just to be different, thought I'd help the stats. Not a fan. Nothing against it. Just not on the bandwagon. Course, if anyone wants to send me one, I'll try to like it just fine. I'm 52 in a week or so.
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Last edited by DubThomas; 04/29/20.
The lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!
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I've tried a couple of them, but they really didn't do anything my .30/06 didn't do, so they went away. I'm 62. I couldn't warm up to them. My stepbrother (a lefty) bought a LH BDL Remington as soon as he got a good job on the railroad, and it's still his only deer rifle, but no one else I know even has one in this day and age.
I DO know that my stepbrother has watched me kill enough deer with the .270s I've owned that he bought his kids .270s and NOT 7mm RMs, so it has impressed him over the years.
In the farmground where we hunt, it's just not necessary.
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I have one and have used it on my biggest black bear, my first cougar, at least one deer and an elk. It is a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 with a Shilen barrel. Quite accurate but I ended up moving on to the 300 Win Mag for most of my big game hunting. I am 55.
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In the fall of 1966 I purchased my Tradewinds Husky Mod. 5000 7mm Rem. Mag.at the Coast-to-Coast store in Whitefish, MT for $129.95. i was working for the U.S. Forest Service and bought the rifle with overtime money I received for burning dozer piles of logging debris that fall. The rifle purchase was on a three month payment plan. I also bought two boxes of ammo, a box of 175 gr. and 150 gr. Rem. Core-Lokt for $6.15/box.
In 1966 I couldn't afford a scope for the rifle so I shot it with the iron sights that it came with. When I shot it at 100 yds. it shot 6 in. high. It was in line with the bulleye vertically so I didn't have to worry about the windage. The rear sight was fixed so it couldn't be adjusted for elevation. I decided to write to Tradewinds, Inc.Tacoma, WA., the importer, and asked what the rifle was supposed to be sighted for at the factory. My reply was that it should be on at 100 yds. with 180 gr. ammo. That answer blew their credibility with me since 175 gr. bullets were the heaviest available at the time.
With the iron sights I took three elk and a black bear. When money permitted I put a Leupold 4X scope on the rifle and it still wears that same 4 X. With it I have taken fifteen elk, several deer and pronghorn antelope, a black bear and a caribou. While I do have others it remains my favorite go-to rifle.
My age is 80.
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I'm 62. I've had a couple over the years. Liked them well enough until I bought a chronograph.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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I'm 62. I've had a couple over the years. Liked them well enough until I bought a chronograph. What did you find out with the chronogragh?
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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I love the cartridge, cannot be without one or more.
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I'm 56 have a 7mmRemMag Winchester M-70..... stainless steel with a fiberglass stock and the metal wears flat black spray paint (it's a real tool). Killed a lot of big deer with this rifle using 160gr Nosler Accubond. Don't hunt it much now, unless conditions are wet. Primarily use pretty custom wood stocked guns in 300HH, 30/06 or 338WM.
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I use a couple different 7mmRM. 44yrs old
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I have a 7mm mashburn super mag-my fourth one and I'm 74. I also currently have a 7x57 AI, 284, 280 AI, and 7mm-08. I just wanted something different from the 7mmRem mag, which is a great cartridge.
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I have a couple of 7mm RM's. My 700 is one of the most accurate rifles I own with less than 1/2MOA accuracy with many hunting loads. I get under 1 MOA with ABLR bullets - I've only tried a couple of loads with those, but they show promise. The 700's favorite loads include 150 grain Nosler Partitions and 162 grain Hornady BTSP's.
The Ruger 77 I have is accurate, but not as accurate as the 700. Certainly accurate enough for deer and larger game.
If I had to have only one rifle that 700 would be one of my choices.
Age let's be kind - I'm in my 70's.
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I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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I’m 61. Never had anything against the cartridge but it never appealed to me. For Texas hunting I also believe it’s overkill with the exception of Nilgai. I used a .270 for everything from 1972 until around 10 years ago when I bought a 6.5x55. Took my one elk in the 80’s with the .270. If I lived in elk/moose country or hunted them regularly I’ve no doubt my opinion would be different.
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