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I like those Old Sako’s too

Seems like the hardest thing to find right now are LRM primers.

Glad I stocked up.

Lol, I'm in SW Georgia right now....how many can you spare?

You chose to get rid of the 7mm Mags and keep the AI, could have easily gone the other way. I hunt very remote and choose to have a cartridge I can hope to find almost anywhere if needed and wouldn't want an AI anything. But that's just me and this is just another example of a want. All good, but definitely a want.

I have been in a similar boat as the OP 20 years ago. Wanted a Rem 7mm MAG even though I had no need. Ended up getting one any-way. Bottom line is it was more recoil than id prefer. Suppose as a result of the high recoil & not needing anything that large I have opted to not shoot that rifle. My experience with the 7mm Mag is I did not care for it once I had it. Your milage may vary.

In the last 10 years I have not needed anything larger than a 6.5 Grendel. I only hunt whitetail & the occasional mule deer.

Along the way I talked myself into the Idea that with the all copper bullets the 7mm mag would be a better choice. Then I tried a 87 grain Absolute Hammer in a 6mm ARC last fall. 6mm ARC worked just fine on two large white tail doe with all copper Absolute Hammers.

I can confidently say if I dumped the 7mm Rem MAG I would not wish to replace it with anything remotely similar for my use. YMMV

At some point bigger becomes no longer better. 7 Rem Mag is past that point for where I hunt.. I can do just as well with a 7mm-08 or a 243 for that matter.

Bought my 1st 7mm rem mag when I was 15 in 1970 700 adl still.have it on it's second barrel with the 3rd in the wings. Jason you need to quit jacking your root and buy a 7mm mag. It seems to me at 15 I was smarter than you are now. 2 700's & a L61R.. so wtf are waiting for a message from god or spousal approval? Mb

Now you’re talking!




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For all practical uses, it wont do anything an 06 cant do or a 300WM even better,

But who cares?

If you like the round & want it, then do it.................but don't put it into a mundane package. And you need a mag length long enough to seat bullets 160 gr & more out such that they don't take up powder space. Rule of thumb is a 160 (Nosler Partition) seated to the base of the next, minimum. Rem 700's & older Sako's fit that bill.

I've have several 7 Mags, none now..............for every day use, I've divested all belted cases except for 338 WM & bigger.

Non-belted cases do everything I need for everything less than dangerous game with a lot less muzzle blast, noise, powder consumption, & in equivalent weight rifle, recoil.

And given the right bullets in non-magnum round, killing effectiveness is more than adequate.

Best powders for the 7 mag, IME, are 7828, RL-22, 23 & 26 & lean towards bullets of 160 gr or better to make use of the cartridge's strength.

JMHO

MM

Nice rifles, dude..................the 7 mag is a rifle to die for.

MM

7mm Rem Mag is an "ego" calibers.
It is no more than a noisy .270 Win!

I can't say a whole lot, I've got a couple of "ego" cartridges myself! 🤫

I can't. You should get one you won't be sorry.

I can't either, it works

Agree that 160’s are very good, maybe optimal 7RM bullets, especially on larger critters.

It would be hard to convince my Africa hunting bud that his 7RM with 160 gr. NAB’s over RL-26 wasn’t great PG medicine. He’s got a bunch of impressive “evidence” hanging on his walls.

Results build confidence and that combo produces results.

I don’t need a 7RM for Southern WT’s and hogs. It’ll do the job, just don’t need the extra power. Pharmseller and RGRaider like the 7-08. I do too. Pharmseller got me using BG in my 7-08. It works just like he said.

Although I have a safe full of great options, I find myself picking up my 7-08 more often than not. It likes 120 NAB’s and 140 Sierra HPBT’s, both over BG, both deadly on critters, the Sierra edging the Nosler with slightly tighter groups. Both sub MOA out of a Hart barrel.

DF

Having had a 7-08, 280rem, 280ai a 7mm rem mag and a 28 nosler, I think I’d skip the 7mm mag and go straight to a 38 nosler. I currently have a 280rem a 280ai, a 7mm rem mag and the 28 nosler and there is just not enough difference between the 280’s and the 7mm, especially the 280ai but the 28 nosler is definitely a step up. If I could have just one .284 it would be the 280ai, but if I could only have one 7mm magnum it’s the 28 nosler.

The only reason I am considering the 7mm Rem Mag is because I have plenty of brass...no interest in the 28 Nosler, even more difficult to find brass (and will likely be near impossible in 5-10 yrs).

Good enough reason.

DF

I actually looked at a custom 700 in 7mm STW again today...its set up fairly well, and can be bought cheap....but STW brass is even harder to find. I *guess* you could form it from .300 Wby brass, but that's a decent amount more work.