Why not 7mm-08?

[rooster440]

I went with the 7mm-08 for my wife and would do the same again. We are in Alaska and moose is on the menu (no luck yet). I feel a 160gr 7mm bullet provides a little more insurance than a 140gr 6.5mm bullet at similar velocities. She has only killed a caribou with it so far and it did the job more than adequately.

A friend of mine and his kids have all shot moose the 7mm-08!


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[KenLee]

It’s not a child’s cartridge, we always called them the perfect “girlfriend gun”

I call em Baby 7s...but I did provide one for lady friend

 

[hunterjmj]

In 2021 I took my wife rifle shopping and had her shoulder every rifle I could find. I told her to pick the one that just felt right. Well, one of the first ones was a Kimber 84M in 7mm 08 and she really like it but I felt she should try everything available which took a month or so. In the end she wanted the Kimber, so I went back and it was gone. I called every place I could think of in the state of Montana but all that was available was a Kimber 84M in 6.5 Creedmoor. So, she owns and shoots a 6.5 Creedmoor. That's is the reason we have a 6.5 in the safe.