In a moment of gun auction weakness I’ve got a Model Seven in 300 Remington SAUM headed my way. I’ve been wanting to pick up a stainless Seven with mag bolt face for some time. With the demise of Big Green I was getting nervous they would become difficult to find.

Long range plans will be to build a 6.5 Rem Mag but I’ve never done a custom and I think it’ll be a few years down the road. So for now I’ve got a new 30 cal to play with. My first actually but should fit nicely between the 7mm-08 and 350 Mag. I was able to find some factory Nosler ammo 165 and 180 partitions. Would like to try TSX once I have empty brass.

Are there any fans of this near DOA cartridge? Haters? I hope I won’t be kicking myself for the impulse purchase.

I had a M700 7mm saum, loved it and killed 2-3 bucks with it, but it ate extractors for some reason. After the second replacement I sent it down the road.

I shot the 300 saum in Model 7s as my primary deer rifle for about 15 years. It’s an awesome round. 30-06+p performance is a 22” short action package. Killed a lot of deer with the Nosler 150 grain BT load. Elk with the Nosler 180 AB load.

Had 2 of them. Both got rebarrelled to 6.5 saum.

It’s a great cartridge

Yep, a short action 30-06 Ackley is about right. I’ve had one, as has my father. No flies on it if you have components or ammo.

what is the Mag box on those? might have room for the 6.5 PRC??? stuff should be easier to find for that than the 6.5 mag

I always lusted for a 673 (built on model 7 action) found one in .308 finally. Those smaller handier guns really have a place, wish there were more of them floating around.

Why matters not at this point; you did it. Secure some brass, load it up and shoot it. Unless you got it super-cheap, you’ll take a hit if you sell, even new in the box.

Remington, yet again, screwed the pooch a bit marketing-wise, by stuffing the SAUMs into the M7, and after the WSMs came out, but that is neither here nor there as to its utility as a hunting rifle. Its ballistics are in a very good slot. Use it and enjoy it.

Grafs has brass. Better get hot on that.

Hornady sells 300 saum brass. I have 2 boxes of Rem factory 165 gr PSP Corelokts in 300 SAUM I'D sell you. If we can figure out how ship for a reasonable rate. MB

Max COAL is going to be 2.825” give or take depending on your specific box. Zero way around that, which makes it problematic for the 6.5 PRC and WSMs even though Remington chambered them in WSM for a while

Buy enough brass to shoot out the barrel and get after it. Once the throat is gone plenty of rebarrel options.

A hand-loaders cartridge in the present climate. Reloder 16, any of the 4350s, AA2700 have been my mainstays (Rem 700). I have a few hundred pieces of brass I accumulated years ago when Remington decided to orphan it in favor of chambering WSMs. Well behaved and accurate.

I’ve got a Model Seven SS in 7 SAUM and love it. If you decide you want to sell it, let me know.

I have one but its a 700 stainless BDL, I love it. I loaded up on brass when Nosler had some on sale, along with about 400 pieces of rem brass. Mine loves the 165 partitions over IMR4350 and 168TTSX over varget.

I get 3175 fps with 150 E-tips and 3100 with 168 TTSX out of my 300 SAUM. It is in a B&C stock and one of my favorite rifles. Wife has one also. We have shot deer and elk with them and both are great shooters.

Ruger M77 Mark II in 300 RSAUM is my sweetheart 30 caliber. Paid $405 for it NIB on GB maybe 15 years ago

I’d run er and kill stuff... pretty simple

I've been shooting a model 7 laminate for about 15 years. Killed a pile of deer with it with Remington and nosler factory ammo. Also killed 3 bears with it including a 21 inch black bear in Saskatchewan. Right now I'm shooting the 165 nosler ammo loaded with partitions

I have 2 of them. One a factory chambered Sendero that I have killed a few deer with including my Kentucky buck this year. I also have a BDL that I had re-barreled by a local smith with a Shielen. I killed a Kentucky Bull Elk with it about 3 years ago. It had extraction issues so I had a Badger Ordinance extractor and dual ejector installed. I also had it pillar bedded in a McMillan stock. I am currently working up a load for this rifle as the Extractor installation appears to have changed how the gun handles pressure as the initial load I had developed was showing slight pressure signs. I was using 180 Nosler Accu-Bonds with 61gr of IMR 4350. My Sendero like Varget and 150 Accu-Bonds or Ballistic Tips.

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Gather a bunch of ammo or get to buying a bunch of brass and roll on.

It wouldn't bother me to use one if I had it.

Bought a like new Model 7 in 7 SAUM about 15 years ago. That's actually one of the rifles I wish I had back.

It was as handy as a pocket on a shirt, sledgehammer power in a trim hammer sized package.

1st generation Ti

The Ti seems like a really slick platform. I’ve thought about looking for one but am a sucker for the M7 design. For stand and woods still hunting that I mostly do they are so handy.

Is that a 600 or 660? The dogleg bolt has always seemed like a fun quirk. How functional do you find it?

Not mine, but it’s a 600. The plastic rib is the giveaway. Paid $99.95 Blue Law dollars for a .308 long ago and far away. I think that one promoted my first pair of shooting muffs, and also my life-long aversion to barrels less than 20”.

600 350RM

my 300 saum rem 700 ti shoots awesome. very powerful. light accurate.

I’ve never been much of a fan of short mags but I’ve thought for a while now where a good handling lightweight rifle in 300 rsaum could cover a lot of ground as long as you had ammo or plenty of brass and a set of dies or two for one.

Well designed cartridge that gets little respect but people who have it seem to like it

I did not fall for wonderful short, fat and efficient concept. I bought .300H&H with magnum action (long loading port and magazine box) figuring if I wanted to hand load bullets of 220gr or more weight or mono-metal (no lead) projectiles I could do so w/o compromising case capacity. Well, I never got into reloading and I sold the rifle because I stopped big game hunting and no longer had any use for it.

I had one in a first gen Ti and had a bunch of factory ammo i bought cheap on a clearance. A guy I used to buy guns from on occasion at a pawn shop in Provo Utah said he was looking for one for himself so I told him I had one. He talked me out of it because he said he wanted it as his own hunting rifle. I few weeks later he had it out for sale with an old blued leupold of some sort in it. I think a fire member bought it iirc.

I also had a stainless bdl in 7 saum that I wish I would have kept. The 7 saum is an excellent little round too. I prefer the 700s to the 7s. The 700 stainless saum rifles just feel right to me. Although if I had another I'd be tempted to cut it to 22". I have a 7wsm ruger that has a 22" barrel. Several friends say that its too short of barrel for a 7 wsm but it shoots and I like how it handles.

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