Help me choose 7mm RM rifle

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smitas5

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Looking for a rifle preferably under $1000 without scope.
Must have:
- 7mm RM caliber
- 26" barrel
- muzzlebreak

What are your recommendations and what worksfor you? thank you.
 
You can have a brake added to any rifle... I would buy a rifle without a brake and shoot it first... the 7 Rem Mag is not as heavy a recoiler as I keep hearing it is... on CGN at least... I'm betting you won't need the brake.
 
7 rm is a pussycat..... it's a faster 7-08...... which people tell me is a "girls rifle"....

Shoot it as is first then decide..... just because some marketing company decides to add the word "magnum" to a cartridge designation doesn't make it so in the recoil department......
 
Forget the muzzle brake, not needed for a 7rm.
Rem Long Range is under $1000...$750 at Coastal Outdoors, decent stock already, 1000's of accessories, 1/9.25 twist.
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Consider a (used?) browning abolt
26" barrel, very accurate, used from between 500-600$
There aren't many sporter weight rifles running a 26" barrel on a 7 mag.
 
T/C encore is a real good option that can grow as you do
My encore Prohunter as it sits has the following barrels 223,308,300wm,45-70 and a 12 gauge Turkey barrel
If I have a urge for common calibers you can pick one up at any Cabalas or order costom barrels from IRunGuns
 
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so if I don't need muzzle break for 7mm rem mag... what if I was to get weatherby 300 rifle wizz factory muzzle break? how would the kick be? never shot anything bigger than 270win, so am very cautious and also see lots of 300 Win Mag & 300 Whby Mags deals... maybe they are not that much fun?
 
The barrel length alone will be difficult to achieve under $1000. Add the muzzle brake and I don't think it's possible. A Browning would probably be closest to the price.
 
smitas5 said:
so if I don't need muzzle break for 7mm rem mag... what if I was to get weatherby 300 rifle wizz factory muzzle break? how would the kick be? never shot anything bigger than 270win, so am very cautious and also see lots of 300 Win Mag & 300 Whby Mags deals... maybe they are not that much fun?
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The 7mmRM kicks no more than an equal weight 30-06 shooting 180gr loads IMO.
I'm not really a fan of MB's in general, but they do reduce the felt recoil..... at the added cost of noise/percussion.

Any quality built firearm will serve you well, another key to mitigating recoil is correct stock fit/recoil pad. I've personally found the Winchester M70's, B&C stocked M700's, Vanguard 2's and TC Icon / Venture's to be a good fit.
 
take your 270 to the rifle range and ask guys to try there rifles out the only way to know what you like and what you realy want is to try out sum different rifles and calibers
 
I've used a Remington 700 Classic in 7mm RM for most of my hunting years and a Tikka T3 in the last 3 years. Even with the lighter Tikka, the recoil wasn't that bad. You'll feel it after 10 rounds off a bench, but not after one shot at an animal.
 
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