7mm-08?

[HowaHunter]

Love that versatile round. It has put antelope, deer, and moose in my freezer!

 

[jbseamus83]

It's a fantastic round. Has a lot of fans here on HT. My savage in 7mm-08 has taken a pile of animals (hogs, WT deer, mule deer, cow and bull elk). With the right bullet it's more than capable. We've taken animals from 67 yds to 430 yds with it.

 

[MarkOrtiz]

Both of my kids shoot 7mm-08. They started at 12 with the reduced recoil rounds, but we are switching now to a little stronger bullet. They have taken a handful of whitetail, axis deer, mule deer, and pronghorn.

 

[brymoore]

7-08 is what I recommend to 95% of new hunters. It works and won’t recoil hard. It also saves me time not cracking creedmore jokes at them.

I have a lot of rifles but haven’t owned a 7-08 yet. My love of the 280ai is strong.

 

[Salmonchaser]

Im working my way down, slowly. I don’t have a 708 but I do have a 275 (7x57)Rigby a little more case capacity than the 7/08. I get 140s to 2925 and 60k psi. I’ve taken a few deer with it but no elk-yet. Kinda thinking I’ll take it elk hunting this year. If I pull off another trip to Africa I’ll take it and the 375 or the 416 rigby. I’m sure it’s been done, Bell comes to mind, but it’s not a Cape Buffalo cartridge. I’m curious to see how many bang flops I can get on plains game. The 300 H&H was 10 out of 12.

 

[Gatherer]

Hot take: the 7-08 is the thinking man's .270.

I use and love both

 

[elkduds]

Hot take: the 7-08 is the thinking man's .270.

And 270 win is the thinking man's 7 rem mag.

 

[Brad]

Theoretically, the 7-08 is a nearly perfect cartridge, and yet inexplicably is one that just doesn't "speak" to me. I've owned and hunted with several, but I'd sooner use the 6.5 CM's or 308's that are in my closet. I just never "loved" the cartridge. Can't really say why. Some years back I did use one to take a grand, old, mountain bull elk though, so that's a great memory. Quickest kill I've ever had on any elk.

Funny creatures we humans are lol. I always do like seeing others use the cartridge though - it's such a fine and sensible choice.

 

[Brad]

7-08 is what I recommend to 95% of new hunters. It works and won’t recoil hard. It also saves me time not cracking creedmore jokes at them.

I have a lot of rifles but haven’t owned a 7-08 yet. My love of the 280ai is strong.

I recommend the 6.5 CM to new hunters since ammo is plentiful everywhere, can often be had fairly cheaply, and in great variety. 7-08 ammo is generally harder to find, and not nearly so plentiful in variety. Here locally, for every SKU of 7-08 ammo there is 8 or more SKU's of 6.5CM.