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You can do an aweful lot of hunting with the twist it's got.
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What's not to love about a short action almost .270 Win??
Mike That is my thinking 100% A friend of mine had a disappointing season with his 30-06. Lost all his confidence in the rifle and it is going down the road. I told him to come on out and shoot some of my 270's and 7-08's and he could have his pick. Two of his kids shoot 7-08's also supplied through me. Pretty sure he will pick one of the two 7-08's, but you never know. I The 7mm-08 has been a favorite of our family since my dad brought home a custom stocked model seven in the early-mid '80's. The cartridge has worked well through the years without excessive damage in deer and black bear. We currently have 3 in my house for my two kids and myself. This season I threw together a load that all 3 rifles shoot under moa. which makes things very easy. I'm a big fan of the 7x57 also and have had a few through the years. They all seem to go down the road, because at the end of the day they do nothing the 7-08 can't and they're generally larger rifles. I won one last year and have put enough rounds through it to verify zero and was keeping it in the truck as a backup rifle. I need to get it back to the range and shoot it some more. Bought 5 boxes of Hornady Whitetail 140 gr loads to see if it was going to stick around. It's a A-bolt II or III I don't remember. Mike
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A few years ago I posted Finn Aagaard's (my favorite gunwriter) article on the 7mm-08. Posting that led to a friend of Berit Aagaard's reaching out with Berit's contact information which ended up in a nice email correspondence. Anyway, that thread is long buried and cannibalized by the nefarious photobucket, so I thought I'd re-post Finn's article I scanned from my copy of Finn Aagaard On Hunting Rifles & Cartridges (1990). Enjoy: ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/9XTVmjws/7mm-081.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/9FYh9tpp/7mm-082.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/MKSwXryH/7mm-083.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/kgMdv6Yd/7mm-084.jpg) Great article. Thank you Brad
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Aagaard and bob milek. My two favorite old school writers There books and magazine articles were the best in my eyes
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Aagaard and bob milek. My two favorite old school writers There books and magazine articles were the best in my eyes Oh yeah. I remember Milek writing about the 25-06, 35 Whelen and 416 Rem. I loved reading his stuff as a kid. Same with Aagards articles about hunting cartridges.
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My copy of the book arrived, and I spent a good bit of yesterday reading. As best as I can tell, there was very little there that I had not read before. I don't mean to say I felt cheated. It's just that Mister Aagaard was one of the few guys whose work I digested without hesitation. A lot of his thoughts just got melded into my own to the point where I never knew where they came from. This book brought it back.
For example: on the subject of 30-06, he makes 2 comments that must have stuck. One was about 180-grain bullets. His view was that this was THE bullet weight for 30-06. I must have absorbed that because that was probably my belief for 20 years. Second: 46-47 grains of 4895 behind a 150-grain bullet makes an ideal deer load for a boy's first rifle. Both my sons are still shooting that load, and I'm thinking seriously about converting to it soon myself.
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For example: on the subject of 30-06, he makes 2 comments that must have stuck. One was about 180-grain bullets. His view was that this was THE bullet weight for 30-06. I must have absorbed that because that was probably my belief for 20 years. Second: 46-47 grains of 4895 behind a 150-grain bullet makes an ideal deer load for a boy's first rifle. Both my sons are still shooting that load, and I'm thinking seriously about converting to it soon myself.
I took that to hart also about the 180 grain bullets. The boy's load I have been using for a half dozen years or so, unless I'm using .30-30 bullets and then I drop the charge to 44-45 grains. Feels better on an old shoulder!
Shew me thy ways, O LORD: teach me thy paths.
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"the .30 Springfield is light, accurate, penetrating, and has surprising stopping power"
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Finn's book is a compilation of his American Rifleman articles from the 1980's... if you read him through the 90's up until his death in 2000 you'll notice a small bit of evolution in his thinking, and he was a comfortable enough in his own skin to say when he'd changed his mind on a previously held position.
His rifle of choice at the time of his death was the 308 Win with various 150 gr. bullets, and he'd shifted to variable power scopes.
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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