7mm-08 ?

Any gunshop should stock 7mm-08 ammunition. It isn't exactly rare. Some Walmarts even have it. If yours doesn't, ask, they may stock it for you.

I used to have a Remington Model Seven so chambered. I'd gotten a real deal on 13 boxes of the ammo, so needed a rifle to match. Things like that happen in our youth.

It is a good chambering for a carbine or light rifle. I'm not sure whether I'd opt for it over a .308 in a full size/full weight rifle, though it would depend on what I was going to do with it.

Handloading, which is something I don't do, would probably bring out more options, but factory offerings will suffice for a rifle to walk around with and shoot deer.
 
I love my Model 7 in 7mm-08! It's topped with a 2x7 Leupold Compact scope and sighted in dead-on at 200 yards. I hand load 150 gr bullets with a good dose of RL-19. It's a great rifle and cartridge!
 
I always thought the 7mm-08 might be a decent cartridge,,must be a metric thing. Nice short action Mauser in that wouldn't be half bad.
I've never owned anything chambered in it though.

FWIW, I think the '256Mannlicher' that Bell used on pachyderms was the older Dutch or Romanian Steyr model 95 or 93 (5 round en-bloc clip) built into a sporter by an English maker.
6.5x53R caliber. Ballistics the same as the later 6.5 Mannlicher Schoenauer. Just a different rifle and a rim on the case.

It doesn't help that both rounds were commonly called the '.256 Mannlicher'.
 
Hi, Steve here. The7mm08 is the best hunting rifle i have ever used in my 26 years of hunting .Good range,knock down,flat shooting,low recoil. Its best loads will come from reloading.I compare it to my 7mm-mag, 280rem. 7-30waters.
 
I have a new 7mm-08 to play with.I paid $199.00 for it at Academy. it is a Stevens 200. Also bought a long action in 270 Win just like it. Nice guns.
 
Kimber Superamerica 7-08 with 42grs of varget and a speer 130gr bullet for deer. My 308's never leave home anymore, though i still like them.
 
Mine's a Howa 1500 with synthetic stock and 19-inch bbl. I'd use my .270 M-70 Fwt. on long range or general shots, but the 7-08 is a fine round. The Howa is handy in thick country, and the ctg. is loaded hotter than most US 7X57mm ammo.

MY DIL popped a whitetail buck with this rifle before they (son and she) traded it and the deer head to me for a binocular. The stock is a little short for me, but is okay with a heavy coat on in cold weather. But the M-1 Garand also has a short stock, and millions of GI's made it work.

Bell did use a Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbine. I think he mentioned it in depth in his books. He had it bult by Jeffery or someone, to be a lightweight delight.

Bell wrote shortly before his death that he likd the idea of the then-new .308, as the short action was quick and reliable to cycle. The same would apply to the 7-08. He felt that Magnum- length actions might be easy to short-stroke.

T-Star
 
All the averrage hunter TRULY needs....

My Wifes Win M-70 Compact with 160 NP's has taken several cow elk all with a single shot. Average range 150 yds I'd estimate. Her longest was 218 yds.

Despite the internet BS, and the "opinions" of internet armchair big game hunters...The 7mm-08 is about all you need for deer or antelope.

We do use it for elk, but we ARE in a unique situation; Nearly 6 week elk season, elk 5 miles from the house, large herds that frequent the irrigated hay fields like clockwork, etc. So if we do get a bad angle shot...or our only shots are at magnum reqd ranges...we wait for another day.

FN in MT
 
Frank237 said:
My Wifes Win M-70 Compact with 160 NP's has taken several cow elk all with a single shot. Average range 150 yds I'd estimate. Her longest was 218 yds.

Despite the internet BS, and the "opinions" of internet armchair big game hunters...The 7mm-08 is about all you need for deer or antelope.

We do use it for elk, but we ARE in a unique situation; Nearly 6 week elk season, elk 5 miles from the house, large herds that frequent the irrigated hay fields like clockwork, etc. So if we do get a bad angle shot...or our only shots are at magnum reqd ranges...we wait for another day.

FN in MT
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Congrats on your hunting ethics - all too rare these days - there are far too many who hope to blast through bad angle shots by using ridiculous firepower.
 
Jst1mr said:
Congrats on your hunting ethics - all too rare these days - there are far too many who hope to blast through bad angle shots by using ridiculous firepower.
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Thank You. When it comes to big game hunting my opinions were earned the hard way. I was always cautious and worried about dispatching my game humanely. NOT so with many that I hunted with or in later years...Guided. A lot of hunters with very inflated ego's who feel that the equipment makes up for a lack of skill. Good gear surely helps...but it's not the be all , end all.

I've chased quite a few elk and a few deer over the years that should have never been shot AT in the first place.

Used to Guide on a huge Ranch as my payback for the owner allowing ME and a few friends to hunt our deer and elk there. I would assure the hunters were sighted in which usually gave me a look at theiir skills or lack there of.

Also told many that they were allowed ONE deer or elk, whatever the situation. WOUND that animal, and it goes unretrieved...thats YOUR animal. The hunt is over. Similar to the shoot and pay situation in Africa. Wound it/lose it...you still pay.

My system worked pretty well. LOL.

FN in MT
 
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