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Factory 7mm mag will get the job done. If you want the best performance it will give. You need to reload for it just like any other cartridge. Just that damned simple..mb

Well……you gave pretty good reasoning for “not” getting one! Even without your reasons, I must ask why….”WHY” would you even consider! 😂 memtb

You want one, or you wouldn’t be here talking about it.

And what does that 4 letter word, “NEED”, have to do with anything.

Good round. My built 7RM has an 8 twist Brux. But unless you want to shoot heavies, std twist works ok, even does pretty good with heavier bullets.

Get one, then you won’t have to worry about it.

DF

Get it, and scratch the itch.
I just bought a third 30/06. Not sure why I needed one….but I’m lucky to have 1st world problems.

The only real problem I can find with the 7mm Mag is that it is "boring". The 7x57 has panache, the 7mm-08 is held in reverance for youth/ladies/intelligent men, the .280 is just unique enough that even today some guys are like "what is that?", the .280 AI is cool...possibly even uber.

The 7 Mag is just kind of that girl from high school that wasn't really hot but wasn't really ugly either...probably a fun date if you took the time to get to know her. I never messed with her much. Too many buddies that already had.

After you buy the 7mm Magnum, you’ll have to get the 7mm Ultra Magnum since you have so many bullets.

Jason280 doesn't write where he hunts or the ranges that he shoots. My own reasoning for having a 7mm RM back in the '70's was that I wanted a one size fits all chambering. I couldn't afford or want a safe full of different rifles with our limited one and done 9 day deer season and I was young enough back then to think that I would some day get out west looking for an elk, mule deer or pronghorn. I spared no expense building up a 7mm RM because great factory loaded ammunition was always available and it didn't recoil as much as the .300 WM that I had borrowed from a gun guy in deer camp. The elk the 7mm RM shot down were just as dead as my buddy's got with their .300's and .338 WM's. Then one cold opening day that magnum compressed my down parka shooting a buck and my forehead stopped more recoil than my shoulder. I build up a 7mm-08 after that and that magnum has stayed nestled in the back row of the safe ever since. That RM is too much cartridge for Wisconsin deer hunting and alas, I'm too old to climb mountains out west.

Stated before.

You do not need one, but you want one. Scratch the itch and go for it.

Coming on this forum and asking to be talked out of buying a rifle??? Not going to happen.

My favorite cartridge next to the 257 weatherby and 300 weatherby.

I just built a 7PRC but the 7 RM will always have a place in my safe, easy to shoot and very effective, I like 150s out of mine, has been my go-to for 20+ years although I had others to choose from, the 7mm RM mostly got the nod.

It won't do anything more than the rifles my have now. BTDT. Spend your money on the hunts.

Yep. Did that

Get the 700 Remington, have a smith push the throat out about 80-100 thous, the mag box will handle that, you`ll get more performance with little cost, and IME, the 9.25 twist will stablize 180 Bergers. Mine does.

Pretty good explanation really. My current 7 Rem is an old buddies and danged if I don’t love to shoot it.





I’ve got my Mashburn as well..



A couple 7-08’s





A 7x57




7 WSM



280’s





As DF mentioned.. there’s always room for a good 7 Rem Mag…

op...go ahead and get the 7mmremmag. i'd get a 26in barrel though.

You need a .22rf, 30/06, and a 12 ga.
The rest are for fun. I’ve not been without a Rem 7msg since 1975. I’ve taken lots of whitetail, muleys, and antelope with the 7 mag.
I have smaller and larger calibers that would have worked just as well.
Now go buy your 7 mag.

I’m thinking about getting another L-61, probably 7mag. I load 140 ballistic tips with 64 grains of IMR 4350. That load shoots very well in all of mine.

Hanco a near max load of imr4831 works good for 139 and 140 gr bullets about 3200 fps

Mb

A 7MM Remington Magnum will always outrun a 280 apples to apples. It is a fantastic cartridge. Three targets. Almost a year apart each and a scope swap somewhere in there. No 280 will run that speed.

Great pics PF76... Can't beat the case.. No pun..