Limits of the 7mm-08?

7-08 is a great choice for her. I suggest you get a browning abolt micro in 7-08 (in left or right hand btw), add leupold 3-9x33 light weight scope with l/w mounts, shorten stock and add limbsaver grind too fit recoil pad. weight will come in around 7 lbs even.

Note that a 308 in the same package shooting 150 bullets will have almost the same recoil.
 
Try a Ruger compact in 7-08, it's got a short pull, is easily carried (light weight and short) and will take down any animal you want it too. I find mine to be extremely accurate as well.
I have several hunting rifles and the little Ruger is all I use now.
 
Here is what I am thinking:
chuck's chart lists a 308 shooting 150 grain bullets. weight is 7.5lbs recoil is 15.8 ft lbs and 11.7 fps
and the 7-08 shooting 140 grains weight is 8 lbs recoil is 12.6 ft lbs and 10.1 fps
these are not a perfect match, obviously.
Roughly correcting the 7-08 to the 308 conditions, for the 0.5 lb weight difference using an online calculator, I get about 1.2 ft lbs. increase
add 10 gr to the bullet weight will add another ft lb or so.
let's estimate the total correction is 2 ft lbs,
now at 7.5 lbs the 7-08 with 150 grain bullets recoil is 12.6 + 2 = 14.6 ft lbs.
So, the corrected numbers are 14.6 (7-08) vs 15.8 (308). My point was, not a huge difference between them recoil wise, i.e. less than 10%.
Of course, one could go nuts and put in loads and all that to see the exact number. I'm just putting it out there.

Bigfoot 870 said:
LarryG, you may want to have a look at this. It's a great reference chart:)
http://www.chuckhawks.com/recoil_table.htm
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I have only used mine for silhouette so far but a 160 gr Sierra with 36.5 grains of varget will knock over a 50lb steel plate at 500M. There is hardly any recoil on that load so I imagine it could be loaded a fair bit hotter and have no issues hunting.
 
I have both 7mm-08 and 308 in Browning Micro Medallions and there is definitely more jump to the 308. I would suggest the 7-08 for a new shooter.
 
The mental anguish we place on ourselves is ridiculous. Get the 7-08 and some 120gr TTSX and go kill a moose.

(when season opens...;) )
 
LarryG said:
7-08 is a great choice for her. I suggest you get a browning abolt micro in 7-08 (in left or right hand btw), add leupold 3-9x33 light weight scope with l/w mounts, shorten stock and add limbsaver grind too fit recoil pad. weight will come in around 7 lbs even.

Note that a 308 in the same package shooting 150 bullets will have almost the same recoil.
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Yes but a 150 grain .308 bullet has a far inferior sectional density and ballistic coefficient...
 
dan belisle said:
I don't think the 7-08 has any real limitations in NA. With the right bullet I would hunt anything knowing it will do the job. Is it ideal for everything? No, but nothing is, so I wouldn't worry about it. - dan
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Oh c'mon Dan you know that just ain't so............the 340 Wby is absolutely ideal for any and all NA game, and I thought you shot an 8 mag, little brother to the 340 another pretty good candidate for one size fits all........................
 
c-fbmi said:
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Oh c'mon Dan you know that just ain't so............the 340 Wby is absolutely ideal for any and all NA game, and I thought you shot an 8 mag, little brother to the 340 another pretty good candidate for one size fits all........................
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I shoot both those cartridges. Because I like the extra horsepower, I'm willing to put up with the recoil and noise and weight. If all I wanted to do was put game on the table, (from my point of view not a gun guy) I would be quite content with the 7-08. I do like that "hammer of Thor" results from the big 8 and 340 tho. So it goes. - dan
 
I bought a nice little 7-08, not for the cartridge but more for the rifle. Unfortunately I have never hunted with it and it has never been blooded and most likely never will be. I'm one of those MAGNUMITIS kinda guys who has to shoot everything with a rifle 3 times bigger than needed. 10 lb duiker with a 300 Wby and a 100 lb yellow back duiker with a 375 H&H, actually I shoot pretty much everything with these 2 rifles and calibers. Oh ya and then there is my 350 RM for blackbears and the 9.3-300WM...................
Anyway here's a photo of my 7-08...........



It's the one in the foreground with the scope.
 
I really do like those Model Seven Mannlichers. I missed out on one in a .250 Savage a few months ago. :(
 
dan belisle said:
Pretty, I do like those Mannlicher stocks. As to the various cartridges I suffer from Ken Waters disease, I seem to want one of everything. - dan
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I suffer the same affliction Dan, is there an intervention or support group for this addiction? God knows I need one or the other, I'm not even happy with what's available, I gotta make up my own.............
 
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