7mm "The Most Over Rated Caliber"?

[JagFarlane]

p.s. One side note... These cartridges are what I would consider the best standard factory load cartridges that your average Joe can pick up from your local Wally World that work the best in my experience for North Atlantic deer.

I think Evo brings up a really good point here. Some rounds you can walk into just about any store and find. Rounds like the .270Win and 30-06 are ones like that, they're the staple rounds that just about everyone carries. You're not guaranteed to find 7mm Rem mag, so that may be something to keep in mind

 

[hardluk1]

Got to say it might be easier to find 308 or 30-06 than 7mm rem mags but in all the time i have owned one and thats around 28 years i have never had a problem find ammo.Most of use spend to much time finding the right combo for our rifles to run out or forget it anyhow. Went by wally world to day and no 308,no 30-06 but did have 7mm mag. Recoil on a 7mm rem mag and a 30-06 are very close when guns are the same weight. Now i know most people that hunt have shotguns. The recoil out of a 12 max load and a heavyload of shot ,doesn't matter slug ,buck or turkey has almost 50% more recoil. I learned decades ago that a towel folded up and placed between your shoulder and the stock will make most any gun shoot easy or easier when at the bench or a past shooting pad.

 

[hardluk1]

Either the bullets or all back bone shots or ballistic tips , they are good for dropping in there tracks but a bad shot will make a mess of that deer. I like a 7mmrm for throwing a 140 grain bullet flatter than a 30-06 can do a 150 and with to days bullet designs not much reason to go heavier. Mine will crono one factory ammo at 3320 with a kreiger 28" barrel. Thats enough to stay with in a pie plate to 400 yards. 3" over at 100 yards zero at 300 and 6 low at 400. Don't shoot beyound that. A buddies 270 with 130 gr sst needs two more inches for this but still a deer kill'n rifle in his hands.