Remington 7mm Ultra Mag

[White-tail-deer]

I was at Cabela's looking at a 7mm Ultra Mag, when I was approached by a fellow shopper who told me the 7mm Ultra Mag would not be manufactured much longer due to lack of sales.

Is this true??

[oldelkhunter]

Its a very specialized cartridge and they are not going to get the volume of lets say short magnums. Based on Remingtons track record with certain cartridges and dropping them it may or may not be true.

[stubblejumper]

I have a 7mmultramag and two 7mmstw's.The extra case capacity of the 7mmultramag only adds 50fps to 75fps velocity over the 7mmstw despite burning significantly more powder.People are realizing that the large ultramag case doesn't add much using 7mm bullets so sales are slow.On the other hand the 300ultramag is doing much better sales wise.

[Timbawolf98]

I would have to agree with the man that approached you, in the 3 boards I go to, there are very few people shooting this round. There is also a great lack of factory ammo, and the best bullets ever used in this caliber (Nosler Partitions) have been dropped by Remington in favor of their Core Lokt Ultras.

Realistically, there is no need for this caliber. 7mmSTW, as said before, has almost the same velocity, plus it has a much better foothold than the RUM when it comes to buying factory ammo. My friend has a model 700 in this caliber, and it's a nice rifle, but if I had much rather have the STW. Just my .02

Hope this helps,
timba