7mm-08 Rem users I have some questions

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I am thinking of selling one of my factory rifles and building a rifle that balances the way I want and has all the features that I want in a rifle. I have always been curious about the 7mm-08 as a cartridge.

I am not here to ask if it will kill a deer I know it will but I would like to here your thoughts from personal expierience.
1-Are you happy with the caliber?
2-Would you own another one?
3-Would you recomend it as a good all around choice?
4-Have you ever felt undergunned?
5-I love my .270 but feel the 7mm-08 will do the same stuff in a shorter, lighter, and with less recoil am I right in assuming this?
6-I have always liked the higher velocity cartridges as I have always got bang flop performance but I have a feeling that the 7mm-08 will keep up just fine. Will I really notice the difference in velocity loss in the field? I mean a bullet to the boiler room should do the same thing even if it's a few fps slower
7-It will become my primary deer rifle and a backup elk moose rifle with a good bullet and resonable range (400yds and closer) would you feel comfortable using a 7mm-08?
wow thats alot of questions thanks to anybody that takes the time to answer them.
 
Before you build a custom 7/08, check out one of those Model Seven CDLs. Topped with a 2x7 Leupold, I can't imagine a better package for deer hunting. I have one in .223 and while I haven't shot it yet, it does handle very well and if I didn't have a favourite deer rifle already, I would buy another for deer.



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My reply on the 7mm-08

1-Are you happy with the caliber?

Yes.

2-Would you own another one?

Have 3 already but yes, in a heartbeat!

3-Would you recomend it as a good all around choice?

Yes.

4-Have you ever felt undergunned?

No.

5-I love my .270 but feel the 7mm-08 will do the same stuff in a shorter, lighter, and with less recoil am I right in assuming this?

Yes.

6-I have always liked the higher velocity cartridges as I have always got bang flop performance but I have a feeling that the 7mm-08 will keep up just fine. Will I really notice the difference in velocity loss in the field? No. I mean a bullet to the boiler room should do the same thing even if it's a few fps slower. Yes.

7-It will become my primary deer rifle and a backup elk moose rifle with a good bullet and reasonable range would you feel comfortable using a 7mm-08?

Yes.
 
I agree with the other posters... it's a great cartridge. And very under-rated. I spent 17 years getting beat up by a 7mm rem mag, and switched to this cartridge. What a difference. Great accuracy, low recoil, and fine for elk and moose within reasonable ranges. I load 140 gr. accubonds and barnes tsx bullets, and it drops deer very quickly. It's nice to be able to keep the scope on target after the shot too... Lot's of good rifles in this cartridge, i prefer my tikka. Buy or build one, and don't look back.:)
 
IMO it's still the uncontested champ for the best first gun for big game. Not only capable of taking down most things you'll ever hunt to eat, plus some that bite back, but very underrated. It's the best proof that speed ain't everything. Mine's a short little Stevens 200 with a paint job and a Rifle Basix trigger. It hates Barnes bullets, but will shoot 140 Accubonds or 139 Hornady SSt's in the same place, all easily MOA. With it's shorter barrel it's the ideal truck gun. Wears a 6-18 AO old Simmons I had laying around and the combo is terrific. I know guys that don't shoot anything else because within 300 yards or so it'll do anything bigger and faster will do, namely kill them dead. I do own and use a 7mm Rem Mag and a 300 Win Mag and they have their places, long range shooting when I think it's going to happen, but I don't ever think I'm undergunned with the little 7. Great SD in heavier weights gives very good penetration and that's the key (put in the right place of course). When it comes to grab a gun and run, it's always the one that's ready.
 
SuperCub said:
Before you build a custom 7/08, check out one of those Model Seven CDLs. Topped with a 2x7 Leupold, I can't imagine a better package for deer hunting. I have one in .223 and while I haven't shot it yet, it does handle very well and if I didn't have a favourite deer rifle already, I would buy another for deer.



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They are very nice rifles but built too small I find them awkward and the lop is way too short
 
NAA said:
1-Are you happy with the caliber?

Yes.

2-Would you own another one?

Have 3 already but yes, in a heartbeat!

3-Would you recomend it as a good all around choice?

Yes.

4-Have you ever felt undergunned?

No.

5-I love my .270 but feel the 7mm-08 will do the same stuff in a shorter, lighter, and with less recoil am I right in assuming this?

Yes.

6-I have always liked the higher velocity cartridges as I have always got bang flop performance but I have a feeling that the 7mm-08 will keep up just fine. Will I really notice the difference in velocity loss in the field? No. I mean a bullet to the boiler room should do the same thing even if it's a few fps slower. Yes.

7-It will become my primary deer rifle and a backup elk moose rifle with a good bullet and reasonable range would you feel comfortable using a 7mm-08?

Yes.
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X2 NAA. I have 2 7mm-08s a Rem.model 7 and a Browning micro hunter.I don't want another gun or need another,and prefer it over my Rem 700 BDL 30.06.:)
 
i loooooove my 7mm-08 tikka.if its with in 400yard i have no worries about not enough gun at all.i found a good load with SST 154gr.and starting to play with the 162gr SST.
 
I just sold a 7mmwsm custom Hart barrel 6.6lbs extreemly acurate and was a thunderbolt on a white tail at 420 yards.I found the recoil just to much for my comfort. I am like you thinking of building a new one but I am taking a hard look at the old .284win just a little more than 7mm/08 and not recoil of the wsm
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Interesting thread!! Yes, indeed, the 7-08 is a great chambering for all round use. Isn't it revealing that here we have the modern version of one of the finest chamberings of all time, the 7x57 Mauser, and it is now being touted as one of the best there is! I guess all those guys packing 7x57's over the past 9-10 decades knew what they were talking about after all! Yes, I have one of each......they will be fine for any game in North America and out to 400 yards....yes again. I saw an elk shot with a 7-08 at 500+ yards, 2 shots, two hits and a dead right there Elk! Don't underestimate the 7-08. Regards, Eagleye.
 
I have never shot anything larger than average white-tails but the performance was quite satisfactory.

It shoots bullets of equal sectional density at similar velocity as the 30-06 so a 140 gr bullet out of the 7mm-08 should penetrate similar to a 165 gr bullet out of the 30-06 if you compare bullets of the same style & brand. You will have less energy with the lighter bullet but still a wound channel of about the same depth. Just a little food for thought.
 
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7mm-08 Rem

2 rifles in 7mm-08 in my house a TC Pro Hunter and a Rem SPS. Wonderful cartridge, the wife and I each took a moose with ours this past Sept.

The load that delivers the best accuracy in both my TC and the wifes SPS is 139 gr Hornady INTERBOND over 43 grns of VARGET powder. Ten thou off lans...

My 28" barrel creates a chronied 2980 fps, the SPS 24" barrel is slightly slower @ 2880 fps...

The great thing about the calibre flat shooting, .284 bullets hit like a truck, and there is no recoil to speak of...

We have even started training the 12 yr old daughter on the bench with them...

Love the calibre, very accurate and easy on the shoulder...DID I MENTION I LOVE IT...:sniper::dancingbanana:

1-Are you happy with the caliber? VERY
2-Would you own another one? IN A HEART BEAT
3-Would you recomend it as a good all around choice? WE HAVE USED OURS TO TAKE MOOSE THIS YEAR AND COYOTES LAST YEAR.
4-Have you ever felt undergunned? NEVER...maybe against a CAPE BUFFALO
5-I love my .270 but feel the 7mm-08 will do the same stuff in a shorter, lighter, and with less recoil am I right in assuming this? VERY ACCURATE ASSUMPTION...feels way better after 40 rounds on the bench.
6-I have always liked the higher velocity cartridges as I have always got bang flop performance but I have a feeling that the 7mm-08 will keep up just fine. Will I really notice the difference in velocity loss in the field? I mean a bullet to the boiler room should do the same thing even if it's a few fps slower AGAIN HAS AN ANIMAL EVER SAID "MAN THAT WAS SLOW".
7-It will become my primary deer rifle and a backup elk moose rifle with a good bullet and resonable range (400yds and closer) would you feel comfortable using a 7mm-08? WE HAVE TAKEN MOOSE, MULE DEER, WHITETAIL and COYOTES...the wifes cow was 175 yards quartering away...lets say the big lungs on the Moose were destroyed from the little 7mm-08...
wow thats alot of questions thanks to anybody that takes the time to answer them. NO PROBLEM...
 
Jayph said:
They are very nice rifles but built too small I find them awkward and the lop is way too short
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The LOP is the same on the model 7 as it is on the SPS line or Mountain LSS. It's the action and barrel that's shorter.

That said, I'd buy a Mountain LSS in 7-08 or .280 and rock-on...
 
blargon said:
The LOP is the same on the model 7 as it is on the SPS line or Mountain LSS. It's the action and barrel that's shorter.

That said, I'd buy a Mountain LSS in 7-08 or .280 and rock-on...
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Sorry I made the stock sound shorter in my answer I knew they were the same I find all factory rifles too short and thats why I have started on a few customs to fit myself better.
 
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