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7mm Terminal Performance Issues? True or False?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 432657" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I used to run a wild game processing plant and I tried to find out what guys would shoot and if I could find the bullets and just check out what happened, I wish I would have entered the stuff into a computer to keep and actual tally on it but over all the 7mm was one of the poorest choices of calibers hands down that you will see over all in a game shop. Over all you have two things that you see common to it, penciling and a lot of holes or blowing up on the surface and not entering the rib cage with a lot of holes.</p><p>I don't know what it is but you could not give me anything in a 7mm after all the bad stuff I've had to deal with, I am all ways ready to back up some one I'm hunting with who shoots a 7mm because of all the tracking jobs the 7mm has cost me. Some has undoubtedly been operator error but I see at least one every year that completely falls apart and there is now way to explain it.</p><p>I know some companies make several bullets from the same basic jacket so you might have the 6.5,270 and 7mm made from the same jacket just sized up which would leave the 7mm thin, it has all ways been my thought that it has something to do with the bullet length and width vs the material that causes the blow ups or penciling. Bottom line is some get along with it just fine and some don't. I will shoot, and do shoot anything in a 270 cal over a 7mm any day no matter what the number say, it's not the hole size it's what happens between the holes that I care about and the 7mm don't cut it!!! The local gun shop had five new 270 WSM's on the shelf and four 270 Wins a couple weeks ago and not a single new 7mm but after a couple weeks there are ZERO 270's on the shelf and a bunch more sorry trade-in 7mm's, I use them for cheap doner actions <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 432657, member: 13632"] I used to run a wild game processing plant and I tried to find out what guys would shoot and if I could find the bullets and just check out what happened, I wish I would have entered the stuff into a computer to keep and actual tally on it but over all the 7mm was one of the poorest choices of calibers hands down that you will see over all in a game shop. Over all you have two things that you see common to it, penciling and a lot of holes or blowing up on the surface and not entering the rib cage with a lot of holes. I don't know what it is but you could not give me anything in a 7mm after all the bad stuff I've had to deal with, I am all ways ready to back up some one I'm hunting with who shoots a 7mm because of all the tracking jobs the 7mm has cost me. Some has undoubtedly been operator error but I see at least one every year that completely falls apart and there is now way to explain it. I know some companies make several bullets from the same basic jacket so you might have the 6.5,270 and 7mm made from the same jacket just sized up which would leave the 7mm thin, it has all ways been my thought that it has something to do with the bullet length and width vs the material that causes the blow ups or penciling. Bottom line is some get along with it just fine and some don't. I will shoot, and do shoot anything in a 270 cal over a 7mm any day no matter what the number say, it's not the hole size it's what happens between the holes that I care about and the 7mm don't cut it!!! The local gun shop had five new 270 WSM's on the shelf and four 270 Wins a couple weeks ago and not a single new 7mm but after a couple weeks there are ZERO 270's on the shelf and a bunch more sorry trade-in 7mm's, I use them for cheap doner actions :D [/QUOTE]
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