7mm Remington mag for deer

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Give me your thoughts on the 7mm Remington Mag. for an all around deer round. The rifle is a Model 70 Classic. Your thoughts on that too. Looking for a little more range with the punch. Thanks
 
There is nothing in N. America a 7mm Rem Mag can't handle when matched with the right bullet design. Yes, I should say you'll be fine using it for deer. ;)
 
The 7mm Rem Mag is very accurate and is good a choice for a deer rifle as any. I've reloaded for this particular caliber for about two years and love it because of its wide selection of bullets to choose from. It also works well with a variety of powders as well. Distance won't be an issue either. I say its a good choice.
 
Exellent round for anything, not just deer. Around here we use them for bears, elk, moose, deer, sheep or goats. Whatever you want to shoot :)

I have a mod 70 tho not a classic. I like mine. If you like it and are paying for it, buy whatever you want.
 
Somebody will inevitably come in and say that it's too much for deer. Personally, I think it's a great cartridge for anything in the US except the big bears and I don't see that it kicks any worse than a 30/06. Be careful that you don't kill your deer too dead.:)
 
The 7mm Rem. Mag. is a fine cartridge . Mine is not the least bit fussy about what I feed it , she just shoots everything well . I use it for long range coyote hunting with a Speer 130Gr. BTSP , the 7 Mag. velocity turns this bullet into a grenade . Great fun !!:D
 
NEVER OWNED NOR FIRED ONE...

From what I hear, The possible draw back is at close range, the bullet may be going to fast to perform as advertised.

I don't shoot at distances that would make good use of flatter trajectory.

I do know that a "ultra mag" of one caliber or other shot at about 100 into the boiler room of a little buck turned the organs (all of them) into jello...
Couldn't tell the heart from the liver and the lungs were like the froth on top of a high dollar cup of fancy pants coffee:barf: But dead is dead... I did have my tongue slappin' my forehead waitin' for the heart to saute but no such luck...

I am the one who gutted this deer so I seen the damage my self and no one exaggerated the destruction...
Brent
 
7mm Rem Mag

Concur with previous post. I have 3 of them, Savage, Winchester, and a Centurian. It is hard to beat the accuracy, range, and choice of game that can be taken with them. Dependent on your abilities and choice of ammo, it will take any thing from ground squirrels to polar bears.
 
A 7mm mag is what i carry with me to the woods 90% of the time. i roll my own ammo and shoot 160gr. accubonds. ive shot three deer with the rifle and all droped in there tracks, and neither one had any messed up meat what so ever. ive also shot alot of hogs with it, only a few have run and that would be from bad shot placement on running hogs. i love the calibure cause its pretty much a suped up 270
 
That's what my father used. Very accurate and it will do the job. When he passed I sold it because I'm a recoil sissy and that rifle hit me harder than I liked to be hit.

But as said it isn't much more than a 30-06 so most folks will find it to be nothing to shoot it.

And I will admit that in the woods you never will feel it go off anyway. It's only on the bench at the range that it's a bother.

Use it, you'll probably love it.
 
7mm mag is just fine for deer. By the way, there is no such thing as overkill, just underkill, so dont let anyone talk you out of it because they dont like it.
 
I like a bunch of different cartridges for deer, from a .243 on up. But my 7mm rem mag has taken more than all the rest combined. Love it! It's usually a bang-flop affair; the farthest anything has traveled is 60-70 yards. I've never lost a deer or had to track anything touched by the 7 mag, and I'm just lazy enough to appreciate that. :)
 
The Model 70 classic is a fine rifle. It is a throw back to the pre-64 control feed version which imho is the best deer rifle made.

.7mm Rem Mag. is good enough for any deer you come across. I would recommend a very good recoil pad though.
 
I would recommend a very good recoil pad though.
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Or don't worry about using a big 185gr. bigfoot bullet loaded heavy. A light load pushing a 140gr pill will do the deed on any deer and not dislocate your shoulder. Granted, my 7mm mag Sendero is much heavier than a standard hunting config, but my son started shooting it with my 140gr target loads when he was 6 years old and loved it. 7mm mag CAN be tame enough to shoot all day and still perform its duty as an effective medium game hunting rifle. Putting the heavy pills in it though for any length of time in a light hunting rifle, yes--I would recommend a recoil pad, or a chiropractor.
 
i just watched a guy take an elk at 800 yds with a 7mm rem mag. dropped it in its tracks. the 7mm rem mag can take anything in north america including griz. . i used a 7mm mag on javalina and it died like it was struck by lightening on the spot. i would use it on deer if i ever get drawn. if i could have just one hunting rifle for north america it would be a 7mm rem mag.
 
In your Texas sendero country, that would make a fine setup for your longer shots. If you are hunting the hills or closer in, don't feel like you need the power of the 7mm Mag to get the job done. You really don't yield much advantage of the 7mm Mag for distances inside ~200 yards. Not that this cartridge won't get it done, it will, but you can use smaller catridges with just as effective results that recoil less and cost less for ammo.

If your hunting situation involves closer shots and you love the 7mm, another option is the 7mm-08, another very fine deer round.

As far as the Win 70 Classic, if you can get your hands on a copy of American Rifleman this month, there is an excellent article on the history of the Win 70. The classic was a return to the control round feeding system the pre-64 models used vs the push-type feed system post-64s employ. Not that push feeding is bad, as the Rem 700 and Savage both use this system, its just another way of getting the job done.
 
Give me your thoughts on the 7mm Remington Mag. for an all around deer round.
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Its a bad all around choice. Its not what I would choose for all around deer. Maybe as an all around big game gun for North America. An all around deer gun would be the 7mm-08, 308, 270, 30-06. I hunted deer with a 7 mag for a few seasons, and in my opinion, its too much gun for animals smaller than 250lbs.
 
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