Remington Model Seven versus Model 700

I wanted a Mod Seven in 308 but couldn't find one so instead of crying in my beer I found a used 700 SA, 24" barrel in excellent condition and a used ADL synthetic stock, como'ed and also in good condition. I replaced the spongy 1" recoil pad with a 1/2" Pachmeyer rifle pad to shorten the LOP. I cut the 24" barrel to 20" and mounted a Nikon 3x9x40 w/BDC in Leupold 2 pc bases and Leupold rings, VIOLA!!!!
I have a 6# 14oz .308 that measures 38.5" overall..... More than one way to skin a cat.....
I've only had it to the range once for load testing but using 150 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips and 40.0 grains of 3031 at 2500 fps I'm getting one hole groups at 100. What more could I ask for?????? That should take a normal whitetail shouldn't it????
 
model 7

Pretty much all covered.

Note that a Model 7 action is smaller and ligher than a 700 "short action".

If you are searching for the shortest lightest combo you can find in the Rem family, apples to apples it will be in the Model 7 line.

Where it gets interesting is when they combine the new wonder short fat cals in the Model 7 action and a full length bbl, to get near mag performance
from a package considerably lighter as long as you are careful w/ what optics one mounts.

No need for the above in my hunting, but if one is way up or way out, it figures in.

A model seven in .260, 7mm-08, or .308 with 20" tube and moderate scope so would seem a dandy GP whitetail rifle to me.
 
Its one of my favorite hunting rifles. The only problem with the Model 7 is it is shorter then the 700 short action and uses a very short magazine , Same as the 40X and XP100. When I set the OAL of my reloads .010 of the lands (what it really likes), the rounds will not fit in the magazine. It is a tack driver as a single shot, average with rounds set to magazine length.
 
Maybe mine was a lemmon, but . . .

Shooters
I owned a model 7 chambered in 223 for a couple of years. It's accuracy was fine, but I had a lot of problems with mine in that it did not chamber the round smoothly. When you worked the action the gun had to be level and even then one out if five or six would jam. From the previous posts I'd guess that I had a lemmon.
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Prof Young
 
Good information gentlemen – thanks for posting. I’ve read where sometimes even calibers traditionally associated with short actions like 7mm WSM have been built on long actions because when loading the long VLD bullets out near the rifling the rounds could not be extracted without pulling the bolt. If the Model Seven action and magazine are shorter than the Model 700 short action, this would definitely be a drawback for what I’m trying to do.

Ken
 
KVD, if you really do want to stretch out the OAL, then a Model 7 isn't for you. I just went through this with mine. I worked up a load (using Quickload software) and found that the OAL was too long to cycle. I had to go back and seat the bullets 30 thousanths deeper.
 
KVD, if you really do want to stretch out the OAL, then a Model 7 isn't for you. I just went through this with mine. I worked up a load (using Quickload software) and found that the OAL was too long to cycle. I had to go back and seat the bullets 30 thousanths deeper.
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I’ve come to this conclusion from what LSnSC posted and looking more closely at the pictures of the action of the Model Seven. For 7mm SAUM, the loading data shows COAL at 2.8252” but Berger 180 gr VDL’s can measure out to 3.09” and more COAL.

I saw the Model Seven in 7mm SAUM and thought it might be a good starting point for a long range rifle project. Remington seems to have turned their back on their own cartridge in favor of the 7mm WSM as the Model Seven is the only rifle I’ve found chambered in 7mm SAUM

Mrawesome22, if your interested, here it is:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=252172044

Ken
 
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