Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Is 7mm-08 heading towards obscurity?

I'm not asking if 7mm-08 is a good cartridge or an effective one. I'm pretty convinced that it is. I'm thinking about its future in light of the 6.5 Creedmoor. For someone who doesn't reload, I'm not sure what the 7mm-08 offers that the 6.5 Creedmoor doesn't offer with more ammo availability. I'm only guessing, but it seems like the 7mm-08 section at Cabela's and Scheels is getting smaller and smaller by the year.

My god I hope not! I just bought one and plan on another and hope to start all my grandkids in them.

The 7mm08 has its place. I dont think the creedmoor is going to make it go extinct. I love the creedmoor, but i wouldnt mind having another 7mm08

I think it is too firmly entrenched to go away. There are always people who like the 7mm caliber...it's hard not to like. But if they introduce a 7mm Creedmoor.......

The stores stock whatever is hot, especially as hunter numbers (and hence gun sales) decline so don't use that as your standard. I had a couple 7-08s, I can't warm up to the 28s, but keep one 280 that shoots very well and is a model rifle I really like, otherwise it would be gone also. Don't see any creedmoor in my future. The 7-08 isn't going anywhere after all this time, not sure I would say the same about the creedmoor.

The 7mm-08 ain't going nowhere, its an effective cartridge but I think its popularity has already peaked with its day in the sun far in the past, especially with the " latest greatest" Creedmoor the cartridge craze of the Month the 7mm-08's popularity will most likely wane even more. It will still be with us for the foreseeable future as there will always be fans of short action rifles that love .284 dia bullets 👍......Hb

It basically is already a 7mm creedmoor. What would the difference be? Hypothetically speaking..

I think it will go a similar path in which the 300 Savage has gone. There will be lots of used guns in this cartridge and relatively few if any new guns in the next decade or two. Ammo will still be available, but just the plain Jane stuff. The 6.5 Creedmoor has definitely hurt it, IMHO.

It would be the same difference as between the 260 and the 6.5CM, no? And it appears to me that the 6.5 has done no favors for the 260.

Nahhhhh. It'll be around for a pretty long damn time.

Only 7-08 I would consider wouldn’t be available in any factory configuration that I am aware of. 1-8 and throated for 180s.

It has a place, another 308 wildcat from the factory. Wife has one and it works quite well. Has the short action limitations. But then so do others IE the 260 Remington. Better with lighter bullets.

Yep. Spot on. You'll see some special runs of them in thirty years. Still love the 7mm-08

-Jake

Someone that doesn't roll their own will forever be at the mercy of marketing trends, as well as flaky supply chains and panics like several we've been through since 2008 or so. They're also missing out on an interesting hobby on its own.

Even if I gave up loading, I'd still keep enough gear and supplies to keep in the game, come what may.

Never had a 7-08, but a quick run through a loading manual makes its charms very obvious. I certainly wouldn't let the lack of Walmart ammo keep me away from it.

It will be obsolete about 15 minutes ahead of the .30-'06. I'm not holding my breath for either one to die.

Tom

Gayer. It'd be gayer. More posers kicking tires at the gun shop counter and blabbing [bleep] about minutia and hypothetical 700 yard shots on internet forums.

but mostly it'd be gayer.

It basically is already a 7mm creedmoor.

Yes for both of these.

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What? Aint no way dude! The Crudmoor ain't no where in the same class as a 7. I think the Crudmoor is way over hyped.

The 7mm bullet lineup is awesome, regardless of what case you stomp it in. The 7mm-08 is probably the 2nd most popular 7mm behind the 7mm Rem Mag. I don’t ever see it being “obscure”.

It ain’t goin nowhere!!