Here Here Big Country. Overbore arguments are overrated and overblown. By this logic the 22/250 is overbored with 40 gr bullets. The 243 is too with 70 gr bullets all 17 centerfires obviously are too and we could go on and on. My Big 7 thunders sweet little holes all day long grouping 150 gr Sciroccos about the size of a quarter. I installed a JP recoil eliminator and can shoot until bored or sundown whichever comes first. How does a point blank range for an 8" kill zone past 360 yards sound?!! Powder efficiency never attracted me to handloading. I just dump in what the manual says on all my cartridges and shoot them. Who cares about noise either. I' m serious. At the range you' ll wear protection and in the field the shooting of game distracts you like an elixer. I' ve shot plenty of coyotes and a few deer and never really remember thinking about the report. All I remember was wanting to see the game fall. And they always do.

Forget about the detractors they' re the same ones who 50 years ago beat down the fine 264 Win Mag but that' s also one heck of a flat shooter too. Modern steel metallurgy has solved much of the throat problems in the 264 and the RUM' s if you shoot slow volleys. Yessir my 7RUM' s great and all this nit picking started when someone decades ago necked down the 30/06 to 27 and 25 caliber so what' s new.