The 7mm-08 Remington is often a rifle cartridge that is sort of a direct copy of a wildcat cartridge produced around 1958 called the 7mm/308. As these names would propose, it's the .308 Winchester scenario necked down to simply accept seven mm (.284) bullets with a little boost in circumstance duration. Of cartridges centered on the .308, it is the second most popular powering only the .243 Winchester. Nonetheless, the .308 is more well-known than the two. In 1980, the Remington Arms firm popularized the cartridge by making use of its possess title and supplying it like a chambering for their Model 788 and Model seven-hundred rifles, in addition to a here minimal-run series inside their Model 7600 pump-action rifles through the early 2000s.
The popularity of the cartridge means there is a reasonably big variety of manufacturing unit masses, making it a choice even for people who will not handload. Bullets weighing from one hundred to 197 grains can be found. Bullets in the a hundred and twenty to one hundred sixty-grain assortment will suit most looking programs whilst long-array shooters will choose for the heavier bullets to take advantage of their better ballistic coefficients. Medium burning rifle powders normally function most effective while in the 7mm-08