louis f
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One more vote for the 7-300You should consider the 7-300 Win Mag. I have owned a SAUM, WSM, Rem Mag, 28 Nos, and two 7-300s. My 7-300s would push 180s to the same node as the 28 with 5 grains less powder.
One more vote for the 7-300You should consider the 7-300 Win Mag. I have owned a SAUM, WSM, Rem Mag, 28 Nos, and two 7-300s. My 7-300s would push 180s to the same node as the 28 with 5 grains less powder.
Their may be more people shooting it, but it has fallen so far to the wayside it's all but been forgotten. My 7x61 is the only rifle that I've ever seen chambered in it. By the way, the 7x61 was not designed by Norma. They produced the ammo and brass for it, but it was designed by Sharpe and Hart while rifles were built by Shultz and Larson. The original brass headstamp was 7x61 S&H.Predator 22 said: "Not many people shoot or even know about the 7x61 super!" Hmm.. well I'd say you are dead wrong on that assumption. I'd add a hell of a lot more folks out there are shooting the Super than the LRM for sure. The 7x61 was buried from Remington's Marketing for it's own 7RM, more powder rooms sells Cartridges. Just another sound Cartridge that has fallen out of favor with the masses. Newer is Better right? 7-30 Newton could be considered the Father of all these Modern 7's & nobody has ever heard of it because Newton himself hated it.
I fell in love with it as soon as i read the first article by Simpson and immediately went down to the local gunshop and ordered a custom from Remington because nobody else was chambering a factory rifle in the caliber yet. I can't remember for sure but I think that was 92-94 as SAAMI hadn't even yet standardized it.Shoot, maybe compared to some of yall old timers...
But I'd say 16+ years is a good start, especially for someone who was only 16 when he purposefully bought his first STW, and actually knew about the cartridge and its history.
You're right... It had absolute nothing to do with positive extraction for dangerous game in Africa or anything like that...I said the first .308 caliber magnum, not the first "belted magnum". I could still be wrong, but I do know that Newton beat the .300 H&H by 12 or 13 years. Its too bad his design didn't catch on, the belted cases on the H&H magnums were probably needed, but for all the other derivatives (Weatherbys, Win Mag, ect.) the belt served more as a marketing ploy than anything else.
It it was '92, you only beat me by about 10 years... 2002 was when I ordered my first one.I fell in love with it as soon as i read the first article by Simpson and immediately went down to the local gunshop and ordered a custom from Remington because nobody else was chambering a factory rifle in the caliber yet. I can't remember for sure but I think that was 92-94 as SAAMI hadn't even yet standardized it.
It's been a growing infection every since.It it was '92, you only beat me by about 10 years... 2002 was when I ordered my first one.
Yep! You still got the 5R .260?It's been a growing infection every since.
You're right... It had absolute nothing to do with positive extraction for dangerous game in Africa or anything like that...
I do indeed.Yep! You still got the 5R .260?
But do you know WHY the cases had low shoulder angles and lots of body taper?Actually, you're right, the belts didn't have anything to do with extraction. The original h&h cases didn't have much of a shoulder and a lot of body taper; this made it possible for the cases to get jammed too far into the chamber. The belt was added so the case could headspace of it instead of the shoulder.
Modern cases that have more pronounced shoulders and less body taper can headspace off of the shoulder which makes the belt useless.