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I started dreaming of the 7mm STW from the first time it was written up in Shooting Times. I also had fantasies of owning a Ruger #1.

Then Ruger chambered the #1B SS in 7mm STW, and Sportsman's had one on the rack.

I have used it to kill two bull elk. Each within 15 yds of previously lasered 400 yd marks. Ammo was the Hornady 162 gr spire point boat tail over H1000 at 3200 fps MV.

Sure, I could have used my previously owned 30-06 and my favored 190 gr Hornady spire point boat tail. But the trajectory would have been a bit steeper.

Man when we going to hang out do bro chit like shoot speed limit signs on the parks hwy with a shot gun??

Sure, I've got one, but I don't know for how much longer. The brother-in-law called yesterday and said that he and the wife are headed this way for a visit. They are from Helena, Montana and hunt elk and mule deer every year. I built up that '60's M700 7mm RM as my first do everything rifle and it has from elk to whitetail, but it is too big for WI. deer hunting and I'm getting too old to chase the elk in the mountains. Even the elk I've shot with that rifle could have been shot with my newer 7mm-08 that I reworked the same as that 7mm RM. That magnum has just taken up a slot in the gun safe for the last 10 years and it's a travesty not to hunted with out west, so I suspect that I'll rehome it to Kevin. 7# with a Kevlar Brown Precision stock, #1 taper barrel and action all hard chrome and bead blasted, camo painted, reworked trigger, Swarovski 2.5-10x42 PH 30mm on Conetrol rings and bases.

My first one was stolen by the USPS on its way to Douglas for a new barrel…. A few years later I saw a Rem 700ADL with a 26” barrel too cheap to walk away from. First load was 140TSX over a stiff charge of IMR7977 that shot around 1/2” groups. I mostly use it when I’m sitting in a box for shooting deer but it’s hard to imagine much one couldn’t hunt with that combo.

It is my favorite cartridge, and my favorite rifle is a Tikka topped with my new Schmidt and Bender Polar T96. I’ve killed a lot of game with this rifle but have not hunted with the new scope on it yet. Looking forward to that.

This Tikka is my go to and I will shoot hogs, Deer and blackbear with it here at home. I will take it on my Wyoming cow elk hunt this fall.

I shoot 160 Accubonds through it and it is very accurate.

Agreed! My main light weight rig is a 7mm mag. Wonderful performer on anything I'll hunt

I have two. A Tikka Wideland Veil and a Remington Sendero. The Sendero needs to find a new home, to heavy for an OD.

Model 70 Classic Stainless. Sub MOA shooter all day long with 160 Partitions and Sierra Game Kings. Friend of mine used one to take a nice RAM in Alaska at a lazered 650 yards. Can't ask for much more.

My first one was a Model 70 Classic SST. For whatever reason I just couldn’t get it to hold a pattern and the recoil made my teeth hurt.
I sold it and bought a Browning Hells Canyon Speed. With the break it feels like I’m shooting my 243 and without the break recoil steps up to 270 levels. It patterns real well. Maybe it just fits me better.
I did like the looks of the M70, but it just didn’t work out for me.

I wish I could remember the name of the guy here that had a signature line, "You don't have to be an aszhole to have a 7 Mag, but every aszhole has one".

I bought my first centerfire rifle, a 30-06, back in 1967. It kept my freezer full of deer, elk, and antelope meat for about 10 years until I moved to Montana and my new hunting partner gave my a .30 Gibbs case. I carried that case around in my pocket for a few months, and I liked the looks of it so much that I had my .30-06 re-chambered to .30 Gibbs.

For the next 20 some years that .30 Gibbs that rifle kept my freezers full of deer, elk, and antelope meat, along with a couple of Shiras moose and an Alaskan Caribou. Almost every day I still look at the mounts of many of those animals on my walls and re-live the great memories of those hunts.

My friend that gave me the .30 Gibbs case hunted with a 7 mm Rem mag, and for many years I thought that I should get one, but when I looked at the ballistics of the 7 mm RM, .30-06, and .30 Gibbs, they were so close that I couldn't justify me getting a 7 RM.

Then in 2000 I got invited to go on a hunt in South Africa with some friends. At the time I was going through a very nasty divorce and I couldn't use any of my guns, so I borrowed a 7 RM from one of the guys that I went to Africa with and used it on that hunt. That rifle was a Rem 700 ADL that my friend had in his pawn shop, and I later bought it from him.

In 2004 I used that rifle on a hunt in Canada's Northwest Territories and it put a Musk ox and a Caribou in the B&C record book for me. After that hunt I decided that I liked Rem 700 BDL model better, my pawn shop friend had a stainless model 700 in 7 RM, so I "traded up" with him.

I then used my "new" 7 mm RM on a variety of hunts, including another Canadian caribou hunt, this time in Quebec in 2017, the last year that Quebec allowed non-residents to hunt caribou. I again lucked out and shot the highest scoring Quebec-Labrador caribou that anyone regestered with B&C that year.

In the past few years I bought a couple of Weatherby Vanguard rifles in their Griptonite stocks. I really like the feel of those stocks and for years I wished that my Remington 700 BDL 7 mm RM was in one of those stocks. Then earlier this summer I saw an ad on line for a long action Weatherby Griptonite stock, so I bought it.

The dimensions and action screws of Rem 700s and Weatherby Vanguards are not the same, but with some cutting, grinding, drilling, and epoxy, I now have my 7 mm RM in a Wby Griptonite stock. I also glass and pillar bedded the action, lengthened the LOP 1/4", free floated the barrel, switched the sling swivels to flush mounted QD ones, fit a Houge recoil pad on it, and painted it black with white spider web. On top I have a Leupold VX 3i 4.5-14x40 CDS with side focus scope. It's my new favorite foul weather rifle.

Buffy,

Cool story and a very nice rifle!

Very nice rifle

Do Bergara 7RM rifles have mag boxes with the same 3.690" COAL to allow for 180 ELDs?

Tikka T3 by Eddie Fosnaugh is a true 1/4” rifle with IMR4350 and 140NBT
Remington Sendero is a 1/2” rifle but a bear to carry.
Great off the bench.

Really been wanting to throw one together. Probably defiance action 23” barrel. Haven’t worked out the particulars.

Only 2 - Remington Rem Mag and Sako Ultra Mag.

Just saw this and yes...it do play as nicely there,as a L/A 700 do,which is quite an attribute. Hint............

Sendero’s are heavy, ain’t a hill climbing gun

Up to three now. Started with a BAR Safari that was a high school graduation gift, later picked up 70s vintage 700 BDL, and just this season added a Colt Light Rifle that will be melvinized after the season is over. Does everything I need a rifle to do for deer and up around here.