Jumped in too quick 7mm remington mag

[JTEX]

If I could only have one cartridge for north america .......and most of africa, excluding the big 5 of course.....it would be 7mm RM!

I've made a pile of meat with it from bull giraffe to whitetail deer from spitting distance to 620 yds.

 

[Ray123]

I don't want a 7mm Mag...had one for years..killed some elk with it, it was no better killer at moderate ranges than the 7mm mauser or 7mm-08 ...but blood shot more meat. I traded mine for a 222 Rem. Trade yours for a 7mm-08 or something similar...don't suffer with a cartridge you don't want...I don't. I could hunt the lower 48 for everything with a 308 Win...I have a a bunch of them. My 9 twist 22" hunting rifle will shoot a 200 gr SMK .715 BC at 2740 fps..fairly light and handy.
But I hunt with a 338 Win Mag or 350 Rem mag....the 350 Rem mag is a modified Model 7 20" barrel, added muzzle breake & feeds 2.910" cartridges out of the mag shooting 250 gr at 2626 fps, its handy and fairly light, and accurate...but you have to make the brass, these days. So with todays economy I'd choose a 308 Win ...cheap brass, & bullets available, many powders will shoot accurately or good enough for hunting....even surplus military powders. I just bought 1000 pcs of brass for 14 cents ea. including shipping...and a 1000 with military primers installed...this crap ammo has shot 5 shot groups in the .3s" and .4s" back to back with cheap Speer 130 gr Varmint bullets..in an ar 10 18" proof barrel.
You already have cartridges that do what you want better than the 7 Mag so trade it for components or a caliber you will use.

 

[Turpentine]

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I ended up with the 7 mag basically because of what was available. It was either the 7mm or 300 win mag. I figured the 7mm could be used for just abour everything from whitetail to elk. I dont think i would ever try ELR with it, but i would like to be very confident when i squeeze off a round.

Don’t sell the 7mm REM Mag short. A really good friend of mine uses a 7mm Rem. mag. He runs a 28” barrel in varmint contour with a brake. He is extremely accurate to 1200 yards which is as far as his range allows. That rifle is boringly accurate. He has been at it a long time. His longest white tail is 1146 yards with the 162 grain Amax in the older metal tipped version. He now runs 162 eldm’s for Whitetail and mas moved to the 180 eldm for larger game such as Elk and African plains game. He and his friend who shoots an identical rifle and similar load with 180 eldm’s recently took 15 animals on his last trip to Africa from 50 to 920 yards. Their guide was questionable at 1st about their use of the eldm but was extremely impressed by their results. Very impressed! He runs Reloader 26 right now and some H 1000 but H 1000 availability isn’t great. He documents every round he fires and generally gets 1200 rounds out of a barrel.
He does have a 7 X 300 Hart barrel being built but I think it’s more from his experimental nature than anything. His 7 Rem mags have served him extremely well and with all the new high BC bullet offerings it is a very capable round. I don’t concern myself with all of the latest marketing hype. There are some capable new cartridges out there. There are also cartridges that have been doing great things for 100 plus years. Do these new cartridges really do something that much better? Possibly. But not for my needs. The older cartridges can do some mighty interesting things with all the new propellants and projectiles. It’s just wired Into us these days to want something “new”. I do think some of the newer offerings can be more efficient in powder burned vs. potential velocity but some of the old is pretty doggone efficient. Honestly I’ll take extra mag capacity and flawless feeding vs. short and fat for what I’m doing.
In choosing my recent build, I knew I would not be hunting anything larger than hogs. But I would be shooting out to 1200 yards on occasion. Had I not wanted to run un braked, my choice would have been 7mm Rem Mag. I didn’t need that much horsepower and I didn’t want to struggle to procure brass. So I chose 6.5-06. It is proving to be very accurate, I have a barrel full of suitable brass for it. I haven’t been disappointed.

 

[rickhirsch]

Don't know why hunter's fret so much about. caliber's it was about 45 years ago that i walk in to a sporting goods store looking to buy a 30 06 they were sold out of the sale item. so i had a choice ,
270 or 7mm. i chose the 7mm. I still like it . but its a over bore and they eat barrels its a great long
range cartridge. long range to me is 550 yds I shoot a lot. my gun shoot good. all are custom or semi custom I also shoot long range bench rest . guys talk about shooting game at great distance. I see
a lot of so called experts miss a lot game and worst wound animals . everybody has favorite calibers
they all work good. 7mm mag has been great for me even when it had the factory barrel 2800 fps
with speer 160 gr. its got a hart now @ 27'' 160 at 3150 fps killed a lot of deer with both versions
by the way 270 w/w has been good to me too. i'll never say 7's kill better than 30 cal's. 33's kill better
than . you get the picture . back to 7rm's they just work. good rifle good bullet go have fun! old man Rick

 

[Turpentine]

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Don't know why hunter's fret so much about. caliber's it was about 45 years ago that i walk in to a sporting goods store looking to buy a 30 06 they were sold out of the sale item. so i had a choice ,
270 or 7mm. i chose the 7mm. I still like it . but its a over bore and they eat barrels its a great long
range cartridge. long range to me is 550 yds I shoot a lot. my gun shoot good. all are custom or semi custom I also shoot long range bench rest . guys talk about shooting game at great distance. I see
a lot of so called experts miss a lot game and worst wound animals . everybody has favorite calibers
they all work good. 7mm mag has been great for me even when it had the factory barrel 2800 fps
with speer 160 gr. its got a hart now @ 27'' 160 at 3150 fps killed a lot of deer with both versions
by the way 270 w/w has been good to me too. i'll never say 7's kill better than 30 cal's. 33's kill better
than . you get the picture . back to 7rm's they just work. good rifle good bullet go have fun! old man Rick

You’re right. Once you get past 400-450. You better have good accurate range information and know what your rifle will do. My really longer range hunting is done in the same fields where we have had time to prepare. We set up a table or ”Bench” near the entrance that provides unseen access, shade and good visibility. I‘lll range everything with laser or gps and even have range stakes with flagging at intervals If necessary. Our problem is agricultural fields that are extremely long and can only be accessed from one point. Throw in a prevailing wind direction limits opportunity and that makes getting close without being detected almost impossible most days. Add 40 to 50 deer into that equation plus hogs on a daily basis and what you get are some very costly large scale food plots when you figure seed, fertilizer, chemical, and nitrogen costs. Other deterrents and repellents are also used and they help but sometimes the only way to really make a dent is to reduce the population. At least laws have been changed that allow us to recover and utilize the meat now.
i grew up with a 270. I still have 2 or 3. I’m not sure if a better whitetail and hog cartridge has ever been developed. I just wish it had more bullet offerings for longer range stuff. That situation is improving and I considered building one in an 8 or 9 twist.
I have a couple 308s and use them a lot. They are very capable. I really enjoy my AR 10 and it’s more accurate than it has a right to be. It’s also recoil friendly. It definitely lightened my wallet with load development before I found the right combination.
I have also developed a big appreciation for the 30-06 over the last several years. Many of them I have shot have been very accurate with little effort.. There isn’t much you can’t do with one. I also like the fact that I can download it to where it’s very comfortable to shoot.
Truthfully, the 6.5-06 is a cartridge I have wanted to build for over 30 years. Long before the 6.5 craze came. I started loading and studying loading manuals in the mid 80’s. The guy that introduced me to all of it had a mauser in 6.5 x 55 that I just plain thought was cool and he killed the heck out of deer with it. So that started me thinking. To me 6.5-06 just looked like a 270 with a little more long range options with high BC bullets that wouldn’t kick your eye teeth out when you pulled the trigger.. seemed like a plus for me. The 7mag can bring a large variety of high BC bullets to the table as well. My biggest issue with it is I don’t handle recoil, muzzle blast, or concussion well from a health standpoint, long story. Kind of an if you’re gonna be dumb you gotta be tough story. I was quite dumb. I’ve found that my threshold or tolerance is right in the upper 308-270 range. So it all just fits.

 

[rsbhunter]

If you're still having problems finding brass, I have 97 Weatherby stamped 7 REMINGTON mag brass new 2 or 3 once fired, (had to try it). I have never known that Weatherby made 7 Rem brass, but obviously they did. Anyway, for a fair price(for both of us) I'm willing to sell it. I love the 7 mag, have owned them for 45 years...rsbhunter

 

[Turpentine]

If you're still having problems finding brass, I have 97 Weatherby stamped 7 REMINGTON mag brass new 2 or 3 once fired, (had to try it). I have never known that Weatherby made 7 Rem brass, but obviously they did. Anyway, for a fair price(for both of us) I'm willing to sell it. I love the 7 mag, have owned them for 45 years...rsbhunter

I never would have thought of Weatherby making 7mm REM mag brass. Interesting

 

[Benchrest Braxton]

@BORGY76 i really hope you bought some of that ADG we linked you to, it’s what you asked for and there is only 11 boxes left

 

[BORGY76]

@BORGY76 i really hope you bought some of that ADG we linked you to, it’s what you asked for and there is only 11 boxes left

Thanks for the reminder! Just ordered a couple boxes.

Anyone use H4350 in the 7mm Rem Mag? I know Retumbo and a couple others are pretty popular. I just happen to have a decent supply of H4350. Still need to gather a few other things before im ready.