Does anyone use a 7mm-08 for hunting? I was looking at one and looked up the recoil on it and noticed that it was almost identical to a 25-06 and 243. I am lloking for a good multipurpose rifle and they make some nice lower grain weight bullets for this. Hornady makes a sweet 139 grain bullet for it. I also want to use this gun for deer was just wondering what you guys thought
7mm-08 for coyotes
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IDBob
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I normally use a 243 or a 204 Ruger, but when big game hunting season starts looming I get the 280 Remington or the 8mm Rem mag out.
It's an excellent way to get tuned up for hunting season and the coyotes just don't seem to notice the difference. You do have to exercise a little more care to the background as big game bullets can bounce compared to fragile varmint bullets.
It's an excellent way to get tuned up for hunting season and the coyotes just don't seem to notice the difference. You do have to exercise a little more care to the background as big game bullets can bounce compared to fragile varmint bullets.
White Eagle
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Being based on the 308 win it is a very good choice for deer hunting...It stacks up there with the best of the deer cartridges.It is however a little harse for anything smaller that deer sized animals ..It could be used as a combination cartridge but there are better ones for the task.......Btw I had one in a model 70
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Bloodhound
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The 7mm-08 will feel like a .280Rem...the animal won't be able to tell the diff...the few fps that the 7-08 give up to the .280 will never be an issue in the field.
Go forth with a 7-08 and shoot deer and coyotes and.....
Go forth with a 7-08 and shoot deer and coyotes and.....
ARCOREY
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If you're handloading, Hornady makes a 100 gr. HP that looks promising. I'm about to start load development with mine for yotes. As for deer the 139 gr. SST and Interlock should be fine, the SST is a little too explosive for me. I've done well with Core-Lokt factory ammo as have my hunting buddies for deer.
drmhunting
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How this sounds?
Light wait rifle (short action)
Light recoil (even for recoil shy people and kids)
Enough energy (7mm bullets)
Easy to find ammo
Bullet choices (if you roll your own)
I´ve taken many coyotes with mine and no one seemed to care /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Light wait rifle (short action)
Light recoil (even for recoil shy people and kids)
Enough energy (7mm bullets)
Easy to find ammo
Bullet choices (if you roll your own)
I´ve taken many coyotes with mine and no one seemed to care /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I've been using a stainless Savage the last couple of seasons in 7-08 with good success . I'm working on some 120GR Horniday 7mm PB spire point loads . The PB is for pistol bullet which I use in my 7mm BR . I thought this might be a good yote bullet .Haven't shot any yet but it should open good on a dog .I don't save the fur cause we don't get much prime fur down here .I think you can't go wrong .
Had a few, still have one. Hey it works really really well kinda a short action 7X57. Few years back a little guy from Scotland shot all kinds of stuff in africa with that one. In my opinion to much for coyotes but will work. 260 is nice I think of it as a efficient 257 roberts. 7-08 will do anything the 260 will do and more. With 120 or 140 grain bullets in same weight rifle recoil is about the same.
Hope this helped, Denny
Hope this helped, Denny
IDBob
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Top it off with a 120 TSX and drive on.
I think it's a trifle to small. My friend likes the 7mm rem mag with 175 grain Speer Grand Slams and has killed well more than 30 elk with his.
I like the 8mm Rem mag and shoot 220 grain Sierra Spitzer Boattails in it.
It's not that the 7mm-08 won't kill elk, but in this part of Idaho even a dead heart shot elk can sometimes run an amazing distance. Usually that distance is straight down the side of a brushed up deadfall canyon hillside. I've recoverd a few that almost made me give up elk hunting.
Both my hunting partner and I use heavy bullets and a front shoulder shot that anchors them pretty much to the spot. Take away their means of locomotion and they usually stay put. The 7mm-08 just doesn't carry enough energy to do this at some of the ranges we shoot elk at.
Most of the folks I know like the 7mm mags, 300 mags and 338 mags for the kind of hunting we have in this part of Idaho.
If this is the only gun you have for elk hunting then by all means use it, but take careful shots (as any good sportsmang should) and use a premium bullet.
I know there not bulls, but that's all I had a pix of.
Top it off with a 120 TSX and drive on.
I think it's a trifle to small. My friend likes the 7mm rem mag with 175 grain Speer Grand Slams and has killed well more than 30 elk with his.
I like the 8mm Rem mag and shoot 220 grain Sierra Spitzer Boattails in it.
It's not that the 7mm-08 won't kill elk, but in this part of Idaho even a dead heart shot elk can sometimes run an amazing distance. Usually that distance is straight down the side of a brushed up deadfall canyon hillside. I've recoverd a few that almost made me give up elk hunting.
Both my hunting partner and I use heavy bullets and a front shoulder shot that anchors them pretty much to the spot. Take away their means of locomotion and they usually stay put. The 7mm-08 just doesn't carry enough energy to do this at some of the ranges we shoot elk at.
Most of the folks I know like the 7mm mags, 300 mags and 338 mags for the kind of hunting we have in this part of Idaho.
If this is the only gun you have for elk hunting then by all means use it, but take careful shots (as any good sportsmang should) and use a premium bullet.
I know there not bulls, but that's all I had a pix of.