7mm RUM

[H4831]

Your post isn't 100% clear, but ti sounds to me like the gentlemen is sighting in rifles for new rifle buyers?

If this is correct, then I must ask: If a guy doesn't know how to sight in his own rifle, then what the hell does he want a powerful magnum for?

Gatehouse, I don't think it is just the heavy kickers they wanted sighted in.
Away back when I sold rifles in a gun shop, at least half of the rifle buyers wanted their rifls sighted in.
I did it constantly for them. They would buy a box of ammo and I would sight it in at 100 yards. I always told them they should check the sighting themselves, but I know they seldom did.
I think it has to do with what I said on another thread. Many hunters are not the slightest interested in shooting. The rifle is just a tool that shoots their game.

 

[stubblejumper]

Your post isn't 100% clear, but ti sounds to me like the gentlemen is sighting in rifles for new rifle buyers?

If this is correct, then I must ask: If a guy doesn't know how to sight in his own rifle, then what the hell does he want a powerful magnum for

If the person can't even sight his own rifle in,he certainly doesn't have the skills necessary to use any RUM to it's potential.

 

[JasonYuke]

Just wondering how you find the ABs at high speed. I am useing the 160 TSX at 3300 and while it kills very well its also very destructive. Haven't managed to stop any yet, do the ABs hold up or blow up?

I have only shot 2 deer with the 7mm Rums one with a 140 accubond, and the other was with a 160 TSX bullet. The TSXs would not shoot great so last year I switched to the 160 accubonds and accuracy improved a great deal from 1.6-2 to sub MOA.

I have 2 7 rums one likes 140s the other 160s, go figure,

I never did recover the bullet, A-bond sank it through the Boiler at a whole 50 yards away, good job I had a RUM! It did make a hole and it did some serious shell shocking , I can not imagin hitting big bone with this bullet at that speed impact velocity was over 3400.

I would like to stay with the TSXs for both the 140s and 160s, I just can not get the buggers to break MOA accuracy in either gun.

The 7mm Rums, well to be honest I do not use very often, for any game, I have them because I like them.... I normaly shoot a 308, 300 wm, or wsm, or wby for hunting purposes, and move to 338s and 350s for moose and bear.

That is why I do not shoot them very much. They are neat in teh eye of the beholder, if your intrested in fast magnums, I did end up pushng a 140 grainer well over 3700 fps, thats just crazy.

 

[bad medicine]

I have had my .300UM for 4yrs now & have shot 5 deer to date,with none making it over 50 yards with boileroom hits and the majority landing in their tracks. I feel the recoil is very managable with my sendero and has half the recoil felt from my T/C triumph at 150grains.