300 win mag or 7mm rem mag

Deer can't handle the recoil of the 300, therefore they shoot the 7mm.

Elk/moose can shoot the 300 all day long.:)

6 of one half dozen of the other, they both make holes in animals from a long ways, however the hole made my the 7mm is about .016" smaller.
 
Both will do the trick the 300 has a little more smack for the job but the 7mm is a good choice too. It's kinda like test driving the mustang 8cyl and the mustang 6cyl and asking which one to buy! It just comes down to personal pref.
 
Its a do you like the red t-shirt or the blue t-shirt question. Both will do the job. Both have the same effective range with the right loads.

Buy the rifle the fits your shoulder and your budget. I've used both. You can argue fps, energy, recoil, ballistic coefficients all day long then realize there is no real point. Especially in a hunting gun. I'm shooting my 7mm for the most part now because the rifle shoots well for me but that is not due to it being a 7mm.
 
Not even close, it is like the V8 Mustang with 2.78 gearing vs 3.73. ;)

thumper1 said:
Both will do the trick the 300 has a little more smack for the job but the 7mm is a good choice too. It's kinda like test driving the mustang 8cyl and the mustang 6cyl and asking which one to buy! It just comes down to personal pref.
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It's a close call and any choice is great, the V6 vs V8 analogy is almost perfect!

7 Rem Mag
  • 20% lower recoil (+)
  • 20% less kinetic energy/wound channel (-)
  • marginally superior ballistics (equal)
  • great but somewhat smaller bullet selection (equal)

300 Win Mag
  • 20% more recoil (-)
  • 20% more kinetic energy/wound channel (+)
  • marginally inferior ballistics (equal)
  • great but somewhat larger bullet selection (equal)

The real question is can you handle 300 Win Mag recoil?
Unfortunately, most hunters can't and are better off with a 7 Rem Mag.

Alex
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
Deer can't handle the recoil of the 300, therefore they shoot the 7mm.

Elk/moose can shoot the 300 all day long.:)

6 of one half dozen of the other, they both make holes in animals from a long ways, however the hole made my the 7mm is about .016" smaller.
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Actually, the hole would be about .024 smaller.;)

I won't bother with AlexF's post.......
 
Find the rifle you like and buy it in whatever cartridge it happens to be chambered in. Both of them are more than enough to cleanly kill any game in north america.
 
I've been tossing the idea around about a browning 7mm rem mag lever action because of a little less recoil and lever action for fast reloading. It has nothing to do with not being able to handle the recoil from a 300. I mentioned it to a friend and he said why wouldn't you just by a 300 instead if your spending a $1000 on a rifle anyways. Thats why i was just throwing it out there to see what everyone else thought.
 
Gatehouse said:
Find the rifle you like and buy it in whatever cartridge it happens to be chambered in. Both of them are more than enough to cleanly kill any game in north america.
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X3. Either will add 150yds plus range to whatever distance the same standard caliber is reliable for.

If a .280 will do the job for you at 325yds, the 7mmRM will do it at 475yds.

If a ,30-6 will do it for you at 200yds the .300 will do exactly the same damage at 350yds.

If the largest game is always it's use, Elk and Big Moose, go with the .300, if you hunt medium game at ultra long range alot as well, go with the Big 7.

I can't say anything bad about either. Both are great calibers from the same era, '62-'63. The 7mmRM being offered with the then new M700 Remington really got it of to a great start.

As already stated the 7mm bullet is hard to beat because it seems to deliver the most energy at long range with the lesser recoil against alot heavier .30cal bullets, or barrel life suffered in smaller bores, trying to achive the same ballistics results down range.

Some say recoil starts at 7mmRemington Magnum and the .300 turns it up one notch. I have to agree.:agree:
 
To me the 7RM is the more ideal cartridge.

Having said that, you would be hard pressed to notice a difference between the two if you bought and used both rifles for a long time. They're extremely similar in the way they kill game. If you plan on shooting at long range, the 7mm bullet will catch up and overtake the .308 bullet, in terms of performance, after a few hundred yards.
 
When i go caribou hunting up James Bay, i noticed that a majority of Natives guide carry either 7mm or 270, for myself my 308 is perfect as the shots are almost never over 400 metres... JP.
 
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