The 7mm-08 Remington is really a rifle cartridge that is nearly a immediate duplicate of the wildcat cartridge developed close to 1958 often called the 7mm/308. As these names would suggest, it is the .308 Winchester case necked down to accept 7 mm (.284) bullets with a small increase in situation size. Of cartridges dependent on the .308, it is actually the 2nd most widely used behind only the .243 Winchester. Nevertheless, the .308 is more well-liked than each. In 1980, the Remington Arms business popularized the cartridge by applying its personal name and providing it as being a chambering for their Model 788 and Product seven-hundred rifles, in addition to a constrained-run series inside their Model 7600 pump-motion rifles over the early 2000s.
The recognition on the cartridge implies there is a fairly good selection of factory hundreds, which makes it a selection even for individuals who don't handload. Bullets weighing from a hundred to 197 grains can be obtained. Bullets while in the 120 to a hundred and sixty-grain array will match most hunting purposes even though extended-variety shooters will decide to the heavier bullets to benefit from their 7mm-08 higher ballistic coefficients. Medium burning rifle powders ordinarily operate very best from the 7mm-08