I settled for a couple boxes of Nosler 162-grain Solid Base bullets. I wanted to shoot Nosler Partition bullets, but the price was too steep.
Two of them had sailed right through that elk, but at about the same distance a couple of other bullets had disintegrated against deer and antelope. The performance of the Speer bullets, though, was rather erratic. That was something that rarely occurred with my old. Both bullets passed completely through the bull. As the bull walked along at about 200 yards, I tracked it through my scope with the crosshairs at the front of its chest. With the first morning light, the elk came up from a field into the foothills. I planned to use the rifle mainly to hunt elk, and a 6圆 bull was the first elk I got a chance at with the rifle. I aimed right on a couple of pronghorn and mule deer way out there and killed them with one shot apiece. The first couple of hunting seasons I thought the 7mm magnum was the greatest thing since wool socks. The (left) 7mm Remington Short Action Ultra Mag and the (right) 7mm Winchester Short Magnum never took any business away from the (center) 7mm Remington Magnum. I mounted a Leupold Vari-X II 2-7x scope on the rifle and thought I was really something. I must have occasionally shouted in my sleep about longing for a 7mm magnum, because for my birthday in 1985 my wife bought me a Remington Model 700 Classic 7mm Remington Magnum. There was little sense of owning a cartridge intended primarily for long-range shooting if a voice inside my head said, This is going to hurt and cause me to yank the trigger. I shot their rifles but handed them back because the rifles kicked too hard. While I was considering buying a magnum cartridge 30-some years ago, most of my friends had already bought. They noted smaller-caliber bullets lacked the weight to be ideal for large game, while larger-caliber bullets must be quite heavy to give them enough sectional density, and recoil was excessive when they were fired at high velocity. They said 7mm bullets were just the right diameter to provide a wide range of suitable bullet weights with plenty of weight in relation to their diameter. spitzer bullet, and very few retain as much energy.” From reading his book, it seems Hagel mostly considered 400 yards as the outer limit for shots at big game.īack then I hung on every word of praise Hagel and others bestowed on the 7mm Remington Magnum. In his 1983 book, Game Loads and Practical Ballistics for the American Hunter, Hagel wrote: “As we have seen earlier, few cartridges will shoot flatter over long game ranges than a 7mm magnum (using the 7mm Remington Magnum as a standard) when loaded with a 160-gr. Hagel kept up that praise for the 7mm Remington. Many hunters consider the recoil from the (right). 264 Winchester Magnum never caught on compared to the (center) 7mm Remington Magnum.