I'm trying to get some feed back on this cartridge. What would be most helpful is opinions from folks that have shot other cartridges such as .270, .308. 30-06, etc. and then used the 7mm/08 and how it was in terms of 1. Accuracy, 2. Taking deer sized game. Thanks. Also, how easy it is or is not to reload.

7/08 is a dang good cartridge that is easily as accurate as any on your list. Broad range of bullets from 120's to 160's in my opinion. Personally the 140/150 seem to be the sweet spot in my opinion. It will hammer about anything you run it through.

One of my favorites...anyone that bad mouths a 7-08 is someone you probably shouldn't be listening too..and for that fact the 270 and 308. The only thing to bad mouth an 06 for is a case full of h4350 flat kicks and I don't like recoil. I'll take a win mag with a slow burning powder of an 06 any day of the week.

Wife and two kids shoot a 7mm-08.

Same performance as a .270 in a short action with a bit less recoil.

It’s a fantastic cartridge they can handle larger game than whitetail and mule deer with ease.

Great cartridge. Little less thump than a .270, but less recoil too. Coyotes to mule deer and anything in between. No harder to reload than any other popular bottle neck hunting cartridge.

Agree with what's already been said. As an all around killer for anything but the largest game animals, it's a certified badasss. Slightly disagree with Judd though......120BT's at 3000fps, and 140 AB's at 2800 simply cannot be beat.

I think the 7-08 might be the perfect all around cartridge for the majority of Texas hunters….. I know I know, some will say it’s way too light for some of the exotics and it’s probably over kill for coyote sized game, but it will just work for most stuff…. In my humble opinion

I will never be without a rifle in 7-08. I use 150 Gr Nosler BT's and have had great success on Deer, Hogs, Coyotes and targets. Very little effort to develop a load in my experience.

I've got an Alamo Precision in 7-08 Ackley. I'm not done fire forming brass but factory Hornady 139 SSTs hit like freight trains. Recoil is very light, but mine weighs over 10 pounds loaded and i have a suppressor. Less than my 270 but the 270 is a lighter weight Sako. As far as reloading for it, I've worked up loads with 162 ELDX and 165 Tipped Gamekings and have hit steel all the way to 1200 yards with it. And that is fire forming, so yeah it's pretty easy to load for.

I've used the 7-08 for white tail with 120 NBT and 140 Core Lokt all one shot and most DRT. Have used the 7-08 and 140 TTSX for one cow elk also DRT. You can't go wrong with the 7-08.

Mirrors my experience.

We don't disagree...I last ran 120's in mine...that particular 120 acts like the 140 But you do lose some distance if you want to stay around the 1000 ft/lbs though. Awesome setup and hits HARD!

Hornady has a podcast and they recently did an episode on the 7mm-08. I'll admit I listened to it as background noise during chores.

Love the 7mm-08, killed numerous whitetail, also took to Africa and killed several animals biggest being kudu and gemsbok.

No difference for me.

I’d say generally it recoils less than the 30-06 family of cartridges, but if you go to the heavy end on bullets and get all you can velocity wise it’s really not much less recoil either.

Rental rifle is a 7mm-08. 20" barrel, loaded with 162 A-Max. It's hit steel out to 1500 yards, and killed a pile of whitetail, hogs and coyotes.

Daily carry rifle is a 7mm-08 Ackley Improved with a 17" barrel, and it is a much lighter rig. It too has put tons of meat in the freezer and stacked up lots of coyotes.

I'm in the 162 gr camp, obviously. It really turns the 7mm-08 into another animal. I didn't want it to go this way. But it went this way. On my pronghorn hunt, outside Marfa, TX the shot was 689 yards. I had two people each holding range finders telling me so. When he was hit, he fell butt then chin and it was over with.

Make me get married to one cartridge, and the 7mm-08 A.I. is going to be it.

if you are going to shoot <150gr might as well shoot a creedmoor…

Hard to go wrong with a 7mm-08. One of my favorite deer rifles.

Same here. LOVE the 7mm-08. Especially for deer. 9 times out of 10 if I'm going deer hunting....I'm going to grab the '08. Load a 140gr. C/T for them.

For hogs....I load a 160 gr. round. Plenty big medicine.

You shut yo mouf! We don't need any Gaymoor love interjected into the men talking here.

you must be shooting itty bitty bullets in 7mm caliber….

The one I bought in 1982 has I do not know how many critters to its credit. 70 or more whitetails plus hogs, coyotes, a few feral dogs that were killing livestock, raccoons, beavers, and a few rabbits. Only 2 of those deer went out of sight of the shooter before expiring and those were less than great shots. Almost all those were with various 140gr bullets and inside 400 yards. Most were 10 to 200 yards. A few were with 120 and 154gr bullets.

Yes, I like the 7mm-08 for hunting and would not hesitate to hunt anything up to elk size with it.

Lots of people do not realize the killing prowess of a properly placed 120 BT. They are phenomenal on game. We've killed several 300lb mule deer bucks with it. Can't begin to count the # of deer and hogs me and my son have taken with it as well. Here's the exit of a 120 through a mature, 225lb panhandle whitetail buck at 400 yds.

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That's what 6.5mm 139gr Scenar's are for.

I gotta get me a 7/08!

I have owned exactly one 7mm-08...a 15" inch T/C Encore Pistol with a 4x Leupold scope.

With 139 Hornadys and H4895 it would shoot 3/4 MOA at 100 yards. I traded it for a 6920 Colt AR-15.

I can only imagine what a well set up 7mm-08 rifle will do.