Does the 7mm08 deserve its reputation as a "girl's" gun

VanIsleCam said:
What do you guys think about it as a first cf for a ten year old boy? Junior hunter status available to kids in BC...
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The 7/08 would be about perfect for a beginner. The 7mm offers light for caliber bullets that one could download for reduced recoil.

A 700 Mountain Rifle could be purchased as well as another stock to cut down and good pad installed The orig MR stock will come in handy when he gets older.
 
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I hear it all the time from guys that don't really hunt and ther is lots of reasons to use a light rifle
If you like it use it.
You hear the same comments about 6.5 from guys who never shot 6.5 let alone hunt with it
 
VanIsleCam said:
What do you guys think about it as a first cf for a ten year old boy? Junior hunter status available to kids in BC...
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I'd think about one of Tradex's 6.5 or 8mm with the stock cut and a pad added to whatever is a proper fit. I'd use factory ammo as it is mild. I'd avoid a scope on a kid's rifle as a scope cut is very bad news on a beginner and I once saw a kid get cut by a 22-250 at the range (I didn't see it happen but saw the crying bleeding kid).
 
Much appreciated guys. Some additional calibers raised to what I was otherwise considering. Fitting the rifle will be tricky I reckon regardless of caliber.
 
VanIsleCam said:
Much appreciated guys. Some additional calibers raised to what I was otherwise considering. Fitting the rifle will be tricky I reckon regardless of caliber.
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I did this a few years ago. My son was 11 at the time and he needed his first real rifle. I wanted his first rifle to be one he could use for life so we just went gun shopping like everyone else. We picked through full size rifles till he found that he wanted (stainless walnut thank god) in .270 win and I took the time to teach him to shoot it in different positions. He couldn't offhand very well for the first couple years but he made it up with shooting sticks. Now he's 15...six feet tall and the rifle fits him well. I'm glad I did it the way I did or I would have been trying to mod his rifle for fit every year.
 
Great mountain rifle, quite a few die hard sheep guys going back to ultra-light 7-08's.. A few "big men" I know carry them and dispatch elk size game no problem! I'm a true believer in the caliber after seeing an elk dumped in its tracks with a Berger VLD @ 275 yards
 
I am In New Zealand at the moment, the 7-08, has pushed the 308, of the top spot for hunting rifle and ammo sales, the last few years,
the slag term here, for 708, is latte gun, as it seams like every City boy, from Auckland(biggest City) has one, Its stuck in the main, because so many 7-08 owners get upset,
I use a 7x57, and rifles in the moderate middle ground, 6.5x55, .260, 708 and 7x57, offer a nice balance of power, reasonable mild recoil, and bullet weights, suitable for most hoofed size game, world wide.
 
I had a hard time comming to grips with the fact that my Toyota Celica was a girls car. I refused to believe there even was such a thing as a girls car. Of course now I accept it. I still have that car and I'm not embarrassed to drive it.
 
There is nothing effeminate about any cartridge using a 7mm bullet, and this includes the 7-08. It is not a women's and kids exclusive cartridge...........that slot was filled many years ago, and is still just as true today........The 270 Win is the only TRUE women's cartridge as we all know...........some guys just forget from time to time and attempt to label other cartridges as such, to deflect the shame they obviously feel from owning and shooting game with a 270..............Laugh2
 
c-fbmi said:
There is nothing effeminate about any cartridge using a 7mm bullet, and this includes the 7-08. It is not a women's and kids exclusive cartridge...........that slot was filled many years ago, and is still just as true today........The 270 Win is the only TRUE women's cartridge as we all know...........some guys just forget from time to time and attempt to label other cartridges as such, to deflect the shame they obviously feel from owning and shooting game with a 270..............Laugh2
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BLAH !!! I love it !!
 
Here is my take on the situation...

Many hunters will buy the kid/wife or g/f a 7mm-08 or similar lightweight non recoiling Kleenex wrapped hunting tool to join them hunting when hunting for the same game , while the "hunter" use his 8mm/Magnum/big bore/boomer to hunt with that person using the "smaller" chambering.

What this tells me is that your new hunter who is recoil sensitive and over all sensitive is capable of doing the job you are doing with your larger more "capable" chambering?

What does that say about your hunting prowess ?

Also, use some physics and common sense , a light shooter is going to get hurt less than than a heavier shooter as there is more mass to move, just like these "range experts" who hold the back of a new shooter while they train them to pull the trigger.Swing a hammer at your hand as you hold it in the air , now swing that same hammer at your hand as it sits on the counter top. ;)

Common sense people.

Yes, it is a girls gun, deal with it. ;)
 
I'm no "range expert" but when I let inexperienced people shoot my .338 I put my hand on their shoulder so the recoil impulse doesn't cause them to trip or stumble with a gun in their hand, no recoil reduction is intended by it.

Small caliber guys sure don't waste much time bringing up dicks.
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no chit; seems they have them on the brain...
 
I am no expert either but inexperienced people probably shouldn't be shooting a .338 , if it is so much that they will trip or stumble it may be a tad big for the individual.

conor_90 said:
I'm no "range expert" but when I let inexperienced people shoot my .338 I put my hand on their shoulder so the recoil impulse doesn't cause them to trip or stumble with a gun in their hand, no recoil reduction is intended by it.



no chit; seems they have them on the brain...
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Not super inexperienced; just on the rare occasion my buddies who usually are 3 shot a year hunters (all at a deer's ass) come out to shoot. I started this after watching my buddy get knocked by the recoil impulse of a SxS and thought about the possible repercussions if he was to trip.

Try telling the average Albertan male a gun is too big for him; you might as well tell him to shoot it because that's what he'll want to do...
 
They won't be shooting my guns. ;)

Anyways, tell the countless dead game animals they were just killed by a girl with a girls gun so they come back to life. :)

conor_90 said:
Not super inexperienced; just on the rare occasion my buddies who usually are 3 shot a year hunters (all at a deer's ass) come out to shoot. I started this after watching my buddy get knocked by the recoil impulse of a SxS and thought about the possible repercussions if he was to trip.

Try telling the average Albertan male a gun is too big for him; you might as well tell him to shoot it because that's what he'll want to do...
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