Best 7MM cartridge

[KLS]

Ron Spomer wrote a book on 7mm. What’s your favorite?

 

[hoytcanon]

Yeah... you are too late, already posted with a thread running.

 

[9.3mauser]

The original; 7mm Mauser, aka 7x57, aka .275 Rigby.

 

[pete dobinson]

My favourite is the 284win. I think it's one of Ron Spomer's favourites as well.

 

[JMedical]

7mm prc, though the new 7mm back country looks promising and very efficient

 

[erikyaremkewich]

280 Remington is my favourite in a Winchester model 70.

 

[Silverado]

7RM of course

 

[The Kurgan]

7x57

 

[speers]

7mm Mashburn Super magnum.

Rumored to be the parent cartridge for the 7mm rem mag and the the 300 win mag, that makes it twice as good, right?

 

[WhelanLad]

Obviously it's the latest greatest fadest, 7mm some bull#### I read doing 80kpsi..

Oh wait , a superb marketing name, the 7mm "backcountry"...

Screams the gun for brokeback mountain hunters

 

[Potashminer]

Perhaps some old school stuff. Picture taken for another purpose a few weeks ago - I thought CGN might want to see - 7x57 case on left - I have taken many dozen head of deer with that one since year 2000 or 2001. Centre is 7x61 S&H - I think that was Phill Sharpe's development for his idea of ultimate North American hunting cartridge - I read it was the "push" for Remington to develop it's 7 mm Rem Mag - most European rifles had 26" barrels, I think Remington mostly used 24" barrels - about no one then had chronographs, so there was probably not much actual difference from shooting table? On right is my latest - so, a "wildcat" - 300 Weatherby necked down to 7mm - so MUCH longer than 7mm Weatherby - I have never fired it yet - I understand one can use Start level 7 mm STW data to get going on this one. The rifle is my first ever Remington 700 action. The barrel is circa 28" long, "stainless steel" - not blued or coloured - with a machined / integral helical "brake". I have not fired it yet - I did pick up some H1000 powder and some 160 grain Nosler Accubond bullets, to start with that boomer.

 

[brybenn]

275 Rigby is my favorite but I'd really like a 7/57r if I found the right rifle

 

[waldo54]

Best is very subjective as is favorite over 50+ years of shooting and reloading I have had a few in .284" a 7mm08, 280, 284 Win, 7mm rem mag, 7RUM, 7mm PRC they were all very good and at the time I never thought they were the BEST but they were some of my FAVORITE rifles to shoot they all did what they were designed to do, the only one I have left is the 7mm PRC so for me I guess that's the best and my favorite all in one.

 

[Kilo Charlie]

.280 Remington is my favourite; my go-to rifle since 1993 is my A-Bolt in .280 Rem.

Given that I may not hunt moose again, I'd be just as well served by a 7mm-08.

 

[Falconflyer]

I'm not so sure their is such a thing as a bad 7 mm. I've had many different ones over the years and the only one I have left now is a 7x61 S&H, not so much because I'm in love with the cartridge as much as I'm in love with the custom rifle it is on.

 

[Northern Shooter]

Clearly the newest and greatest Federal 7mm Backcountry.

Why? because all the social influencers are telling us it is.

 

[Bfranklin]

The one you already have dies and components for.

 

[stubblejumper]

I have owned the 7mm-08, 280 Ai, 7mmremmag, 7mmstw, and the 7mmRUM. They all did what they were meant to do, but I still have a 7mmstw, my fifth rifle in that chambering.

 

[track]

I have no favorite 7mm however, my son never puts down his 7mm STW.

 

[Decker9]

I don’t care, give me any 7mm and dies.