7mm Back Country?
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Follow my link click on the ammo of your choice and then click more info for velocity, g1, etc. Yes it's boxer primed.
Takes a great edge. I use a Wicked Edge Pro. I found it easy to put an edge on mine.
Magnacut has an ideal heat treat hardness range. So depending on that you get toughness vs edge retention.
I skinned and parted out two antelope this fall with mine and the edge is still perfect.
From what I could see about the 6.8 Western, it also suffered from having only one or two manufacturers and no one else interested in building it. I could be wrong but I think most western hunters were sticking with the7 RM because it worked pretty well. It fills a specific niche but evidently not enough wow factor.
Juxtapose that to 7 PRC that started with a full blast from Hornady and a number of companies either already producing models or had them on the line and soon to test and ship out.
If I had already had a 7 RM, I might not have gotten the 7 PRC. It was designed for guys like me who like a rifle that hunt anything up to western game and shines in a few spots, namely pushing a heavy grain bullet, nice BC. It really shines past 500 yards, otherwise, most rifles are within an inch of each other below 500 yards.
I am fairly certain that I am not going to shoot at game past 400 yards. There is some time of flight but also, animals move. Sometimes just enough to get wounded because they were pivoting just as your trigger squeeze broke.
If I was never going to shoot past 100 yards to maybe 200 yards, then any .308 would do the job.
Edited to add: What, then, is the use of the 7 BC if it is simply a faster 7 PRC with higher pressure? I predict it is going to have problems if Savage is the only making it. No slight against Savage, per se. But yes, it could follow the fate of the 6.8 Western.
Whereas, there are still plenty of people talking about and doing things, including hunting, with the .28 AI, for example.
I wanted to leave a comment. Thought had I had it all T'd up. Read the thread and somebody already beat me to the broke back country. 
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Thats for kommie Kev at the moment!If ya'll start quoting lines from "Brokeback Mountain," I will quit you.
I'm hearing cricket from KommieKev but I think he busy licking Joy Reids asshole.I wanted to leave a comment. Thought had I had it all T'd up. Read the thread and somebody already beat me to the broke back country.
All these new cartridges…the only new one that has really grabbed my attention is the 7.6 creedmoor
I purchased a 20" barreled carbon fiber 6 lb 7mm BC rifle to see what its all about...
Turns out it's the real deal factory 170gr 3100 fps and the first 3 shot group was .166"
And built some reloading dies and am reloading steel cases starting the 4th reload. Running 180 gr Bergers a bit over 3100 fps.
Also made up 350 pcs of brass cases for non magnum loads and posted the load data for both steel and brass cases ....just make sure not to put a steel cased load into brass cases
For a short barreled, light, hunting round the 7mm BC is perfect for what it was designed for hunting a long way from the roads.
Yes, it can be reloaded.
Worked up a 180 gr berger reload at 3118 fps, along with a bunch of other bullets.
120 gr Barnes tipped over 3600 fps to 197 SMK at 2940 fps, all in a 20" CF barrel.
Load data on this site, for those interested.
Factory ammo is good and not any more expensive than 7 PRC but has much better performance...especially designed for short light hunting rifles. And non reloading hunters, until commercial dies are available.
Turns out it's the real deal factory 170gr 3100 fps and the first 3 shot group was .166"
And built some reloading dies and am reloading steel cases starting the 4th reload. Running 180 gr Bergers a bit over 3100 fps.
Also made up 350 pcs of brass cases for non magnum loads and posted the load data for both steel and brass cases ....just make sure not to put a steel cased load into brass cases
For a short barreled, light, hunting round the 7mm BC is perfect for what it was designed for hunting a long way from the roads.
Yes, it can be reloaded.
Worked up a 180 gr berger reload at 3118 fps, along with a bunch of other bullets.
120 gr Barnes tipped over 3600 fps to 197 SMK at 2940 fps, all in a 20" CF barrel.
Load data on this site, for those interested.
Factory ammo is good and not any more expensive than 7 PRC but has much better performance...especially designed for short light hunting rifles. And non reloading hunters, until commercial dies are available.
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Oh, this one?All these new cartridges…the only new one that has really grabbed my attention is the 7.6 creedmoor
You jest but at least the new cartridges don’t have to be downloaded etc due to all the old weak actions out there and idiots / Fudds etc
That’s nothing to sneeze at. I run the 180s at 3125 in my 28N with a 26”bbl. I understand all the griping about the “newest, latest greatest”blah blah, but I can’t argue with that performance out of a 20” bbl, standard bolt face cartridge.
Has death before dismounting dick been here yet to hate on Hornady for “not innovating only stealing other peoples cartridges “
When in actuality they have the manufacturing marketing and etc pull to make wildcats mainstream and accessible to non handloaders like me
That’s the one! It was a cinch converting my old fudd 308
Remember the 30 TC pushed by Hornady as delivers excess of standard 30-06 performance in a cartridge smaller than a 308.
Almost identical to rhe 7.6 CM above ...wouldn't you say!
Total LOL...rebox it and it'll sell.
The 30 TC that didn't sell...became the new 6.5 CM ...that we all love.
The 338 RCM ....became the 6.5 PRC! Etc!
See the pattern! If it don't sell rebrand it and repackage it, hype it....until it does sell.
Great marketing brings us new cartridges, like em or not.
Almost identical to rhe 7.6 CM above ...wouldn't you say!
Total LOL...rebox it and it'll sell.
The 30 TC that didn't sell...became the new 6.5 CM ...that we all love.
The 338 RCM ....became the 6.5 PRC! Etc!
See the pattern! If it don't sell rebrand it and repackage it, hype it....until it does sell.
Great marketing brings us new cartridges, like em or not.
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