Several brands of ammunition were tested, in different bullet weights, and I was repeatedly impressed by the groups at the target board, and the feel of the recoil, which was markedly less than my. Still, that 7mm had a certain appeal to me …įast forward to my 40s, and I’d find myself behind the trigger of a sweet little Tikka T3x Lite, chambered in 7mm-08 Remington, writing a review of the rifle. 30-caliber offered the best range of bullet weights, and that the surplus military ammunition was readily available. 308 for years, but I was always intrigued by the 7mm variant: Remington’s 7mm-08. I would follow in his footsteps, shooting a Ruger 77. I would initiate discussions about the various cartridges, citing stats and all, but there was no changing his mind. Leonard Wood in Missouri in 1968-the M14 making a believer out of him-and insisted that anything else was a waste of time. 308 Winchester since he returned from basic training at Ft.
I’d pore over the ammo lists as diligently as I would the stats on the back of my baseball cards. The glossy finish on the 700 BDLs, the glamour shots of guys hunting pheasants with the 870 Wingmasters, and the list of Remington ammunition all intrigued me.
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I lived right down the road from Ralph’s Gun Shop in Germantown, New York, and there was always a stack of free Remington catalogs I grabbed the new one as soon as it was out. As a young man-too young to hunt but old enough to soak it all up like a sponge-I’d grab whatever hunting literature I could, amassing a collection of brochures and Dad’s old issues of American Hunter.
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