I'm late to the game, but I'll chime in. I've owned my 7mm mag for 20+years now. Great accuracy, especially after I ditched the Simmons scope, and it got even better when I start making my own ammo. I've shot 160gr Nosler Partitions almost exclusively out of this thing. On one deer, I shot him a second time to make sure he was dead, but all the rest, one shot kills, and no tracking. Shoulder shots on all but two of them, one of those was a head shot on a doe, and the other was a frontal shot. It has plenty of power, but it's up to the shooter to do his or her job. More range time, good glass on it, and maybe a different type of bullet, and it should work fine. It's still one of my go to rifles. My wife loves to shoot the thing, even if the trigger hasn't been tuned ever.