I have a Long Action, stock and a 7MM Barrel, what to build?

Hard to go wrong with the standard 7mm Rem mag, IMO. But then I'm kinda old school and prefer mostly garden-variety calibers. I have two 7 mags, a Sako and an early Remington with the SS barrel, love em both.
 
My vote is for the 7mag as well, super tough to beat, and readily available brass.

If it wasn't a magnum bolt face I'd have a hard time passing up a 280 AI.
 
7mm RUM Any short mag case runs the great risk of not feeding properly in your long action w/o extensive work on the feed rails,etc. Depending upon that action, even the fat RUM case could be risky to, so that leaves you back to the STW or even the Rem mag...both really fine cartridges of course! I do have to add that I have seen more 7mm Remington mag ammo and only a few STW rounds available. None in 7 RUM or brass for any kind of 7 mag. Good luck to you.
 
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I went through this same discussion last fall. Since mine was going to be primarily for hunting I chose 7 RM. The 7 practical/7-300WM is easy to make from 300WM brass so it was a close second but I'm still not convinced the extra case capacity is needed.The other option would be 7/300 WSM. Those are the three I kicked around for a while.
 
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I have a 7 WSM built on a long action and I have never had any feeding issues. I have a 9 twist 27" barrel and am getting over 3000 fps with 180 grain vld's. The beauty of the short mag is that when it gives up the ghost I can ream it out to a RUM and be into some fresh lands and get even more rounds out of her!!!! Good luck on your decision I would go with a WSM or SAUM but then again I'm partial to them!!!!!
 
Being a LA I would for sure do the 7 practical and dont look back... I have had plenty of the 7 RMs and theres nothing wrong at all with them but the practical is were its at
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Originally Posted By: reddog964Being a LA I would for sure do the 7 practical and dont look back... I have had plenty of the 7 RMs and theres nothing wrong at all with them but the practical is were its at
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Tell me more about the 7 Practical
 
the one I would do is 7 pratical(or 7mm Mashburn)


the 7 pratical is a 300 win mag neck down you can get good brass and find it brass at walmart and the neck bushing dies are cheep

7 stw hard to find brass

7 LRM is a lot of work 375ruger dow to 7 or 26 Nosler up if you can find it

7wsm = 7rem mag just do a 7mm rem mag in LA (you can not set back to 7rem mag its boddy is a lot bigger)

7saum imp cool but u have a long action

7rum = Single-shot with long bullets

 
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Originally Posted By: RammerMy vote is for the 7mag as well, super tough to beat, and readily available brass.




My feelings exactally. Of course my favorite caliber for TN deer is 30-06, so for me the 7MM Mag would be a "Youngeter" compared to the '06. I like reading about the new cartridges, but it's hard to beat a lot of the older stanard cailbers. They didn't get old because they didn't work. Just my $.02.
 
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