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Originally posted by bigbrother
If it's too big for my 7, then I'd rather have something bigger than the 300. Let's be realistic, you can kill elephants with a 7x57...not that it's legal any more or that I would want to. But in reality if you're purposefully going after a big bear or the like, why would you pick a 300? I would pick something with some serious horsepower, not something that may trivialy be better in someone's opinion than a 7.
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Well, maybe so, maybe not. As the question is between the 7MM Rem. Mag. and the 300 Win. Mag. let's pretty well keep it there. The ehaviest standard bullet for the 7Mag. is 175 gr. although someone makes a 195 gr. bullet for handloaders. For the .300 win Mag. the standard heavy bullet is 220 gr. and there is a 250 gr. bullet for handloaders, although I've never seen either of those ultra heavyweight for sale in any gun store I've been to.
If I were to have to face off with one of the great bears, I would definitely much rather have the .300 Mag. with the 220 gr Nosler Partition loaded to the hilt over the 7 mag. with the 175 gr. Nosler loaded to the hilt.
Now that was in keeping with the original question. Again, concerning one of the great bears, I would rather have my .35 Whelen with a good 250 gr. bullet loaded to the max for my rifle. If I could find some of the old 275 gr. Hornady blunt round nosed .35 caliber bullets they used to make, I'd damn well use those loaded to right at 2300 FPS or a bit more if my rifle would stand for it. Currently, I have 35 of those bullets that were discontinued back in 1966/7 thereabouts. I do wish Hornady would do a run of those for us .35 caliber people. Seems like there's quite a few people shooting the Whelen besides myself. Even if they made just a one time run so that those of us who want the bullet could get a supply would be a good thing. I know I'd buy a couple of hundred myself which should be a lifetime supply. If they improved it by making it an Interlock, that would be great.
To get back on thread though, if I had to choose between the 7mm Mag. and the .300 Mag., it's be the .300 all the way.
Paul B.