Thread: 7mm08 loads and a short barrel

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

That would be a good mountain hunting bullet.

It’s on the expensive side but the amount of times in the past iv shot slips a 3-400 yards while bush hunting I wanted to cover all bases so far it has preformed flawlessly but it’s new to me (6ish months) and I’m yet to test it out on a good bodied Red up close I can’t see it being an issue as it’s done the job very well on fallow up close to 350yards the first two deer I shot with it were terrible shots completely miss judged distance and just how much drop the new rifle had being so short hit very low in the chest think brisket low and fell over very well I was very impressed once I reached the animals and got eyes on where the bullet impacted that they died the way they did always a good judge of performance to me when the shots so bad and it performed so well