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Love my stainless Rem 700 in 7mm mag. Awesome cartridge even at shorter ranges. For Michigan whitetails it is excellent. Wouldn't trade it for any other rifle/caliber combo.
Only if you want to brag about the distance...
Right ?, just like those that complain about the .40 S&W's "harsh recoil" that run back to the 9mm , really ? . Then you have people like me that don't fall into that category that are gluttons for punishment and don't mind it which is why I have a Steyr Mannlicher M95 in 8x56r that kicks like a Missouri Mule, far harder than anything I've pulled the trigger on including a friends "hot" 7mm handloads & I like it ...
Yep, they are. All of them! Back when I was growing up, if someone said "7mm," they meant 7mm Mauser (7X57mm), not 7mm Remington Magnum.The 7mm's are just as great now as they were when they were introduced
Yes sir, and my dad was one of those 30-30 scoffers. Which goes to show how long this discussion has been going on - I'm 70, and I can remember my dad running down the "thuddy-thuddy" when I was no more than 14 years old.Same goes for the 30-30, which people continually scoff at, like its incapable of killing deer past 50 yards.
have you noticed the merry go round of some old time cartridges? [...] The 7 Mag will spring back to life.You watch.
I suspect you're right. It's just kind of hard for me to accept that the mighty 7mm Remington Magnum, a cartridge that was introduced in 1962 (the year before I killed my first head of big game) is now "a cartridge of an outdated design."So the problem becomes threefold - hunting has to regain popularity, then long range hunting has to gain popularity within that criteria, then those long range hunters have to be convinced to buy a cartridge of an outdated design...
Typo? We were talking about the 7mm Remington Magnum. Offhand, the only "7WM" I can think of would be the 7mm Weatherby Magnum. And that's an entirely different beasty as a buddy of mine found out. He bought himself a 7mm Weatherby Magnum thinking he could use less expensive 7mm Remington Magnum ammo in it.
I believe there a Llama shooting one of those.....https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...inchester-magnum-ready-for-elk-season.839102/.264 Winchester Mag in the last 10 years?
As a matter of fact, yeah. There was a thread about it in the Handloading and Reloading section right here on THR not over a couple of months ago.Ever hear of the .264 Winchester Mag in the last 10 years?
I think you hit the nail on the head LoonWulf!Honestly I don't think a new cartridges survival depends on hunters anymore, I think it depends on the rest of the shooting public.
Used to be the 7RM dominated competition.. Now its powder puff loads. They should implement Power Factor scoring in PRSIf an improvement comes along and starts winning in competition in a specific discipline, whole populations of shooters will switch overnight.