Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters So JB, why does the 6.5 CM get more attention than the 7mm-08?

While I agree, the difference in performance is just not enough for me to justify buying a 6.5 while I have an outstanding 7-08 in a package that I really like.

If I didn't already have the 7-08, & given the attributes of the 6.5 & the ammo available (if I wasn't a handloader), I'd opt for the 6.5 w/o hesitation.

Anybody that thinks a 7-08, for whatever reason, thinks the 7-08 is gay or ghey, or whatever, needs to re-evaluate his gun & shooting knowledge & probably has never done much real hunting.

Much as I love a 270 Win & the 280 Rem, the 7-08 performs just about as well in real life.

And that is a pretty good testament, IMHO.

MM

Didn't the 7mm-08 get its start as a cartridge for Silhouette shooting?

I seem to remember the 7mm-08 slogging along about like the 260 did until Layne Simpson started to champion it.

Funny thing is that I long been a fan of the 7x57, but never got the 7mm-08 bug, but I like both the 6.5x55 and 260 about equally. If somebody had made a stainless 6.5x55 back in 1997 I might never have jumped ship for the 260 and Remington 7SS.

T Don't know who the hell that is but if the cutesy little sentimental musings and boring ballistic gac spouted by loonies in adoring admiration of certain cartridges makes him want to retch we may be related.

No, it didn't make him want to retch, he was an expert and it made him wax poetic and rhapsodically.

Nah, I don't do any real hunting. I just killed six deer, two bucks and four does, in three weeks back in mid Nov. - early Dec., two of them with arrows but it wasn't "real" hunting. One shot apiece. No follow up shots needed but I'm sure I would have done much better if only I'd have used a 7mm-08. Maybe 6 deer with only three shots next year if I were to switch ?

He's been neck and neck with LB for a while now MD. Two peas in a pod if you ask me.

And here's one of those dorky ass holes I spoke of earlier now. Winds blowing like a hurricane here today JG. Good thing you ain't here or you'd have to tie those ears down tight to keep from blowing away. LOL

I would take a 7 MM 08 any day the week twice on Sundays over a 65 cm

I don't know JG. They're both opinionated and more than willing to share, but there's a "technical" difference if you get my meaning.

Is that the best you can do?

When someone resorts to personification of rifle cartridges it makes me laugh, for multiple reasons.

I also love the assertions, with respect to any cartridge, that go along the lines of "well, it's not this" or "well it won't do that". I figure that is the whole point of why it is whatever it is.

I have at least a couple of both, and really like 'em. Truth be know they both are great killers with the right bullets. Anybody with experience with both will tell you that. The only difference is personal preference.

Is that the best you can do ?

I'd like to think I can back up my "opinions" with why I believe what I believe, unlike BH and LB and several others with perpetual diarrhea of the mouth.

Exactly right. Personal preference and one persons preference is as valid as anothers. Truth be told I used a 6.5 CM on two of my deer this year. A 7mm-08 wouldn't have made a bit of difference in the results.

Wheweee. That's impressive. Lets hear it.

If only I'd have used a 7/08 instead. I bet it would have gutted them out and dragged them back to the truck for me too. They both went straight down so it couldn't have done any better there.

They may have gone straight down even harder.

That's much better !

I am really enjoying Mule Deer’s new attitude.

Mule Deer, you sassy!

I like my 7mm/o8. Don’t really consider it
Much of a kicker and it’s good and accurate. Only ever killed deer with it, but that’s most of my centerfire rifles. I wouldn’t turn down a creedmoor though. Can’t we all just like all the different cartridges and get along?