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Winchester Model 70 Featherweight - 7mm-08 Rem - 22.0":
The legendary handling and quickness of the Model 70 Featherweight. Few rifles can be identified in an instant like the Featherweight. It is justly famous among hunters everywhere. The Model 70 action offers Pre 1964 style Controlled Round Feeding, a Three-Position Safety and is highlighted by a jeweled bolt body with knurled bolt handle. Inside is the M.O.A. Trigger System, the finest trigger ever offered in a bolt-action with zero take up, zero creep and zero overtravel. Like the original Featherweight, the angled comb Grade I walnut stock still features the Schnabel fore-end and satin finish with elegant cut checkering. A premium Pachmayr Decelerator pad helps soak up felt recoil. Its available in the most popular long and short action calibers, including WSM chamberings.
Be part of the ongoing generation of Featherweight owners. Generations of serious hunters have made the Model 70 Featherweight the iconic all-around rifle for any hunt. Easy-to-carry, accurate and utterly reliable, the Featherweight is ideal for deer, varmints, hogs and antelope. No other bolt-action in history can inspire the passion, command the loyalty or create a sense of excitement among dedicated marksmen like the Model 70. Since 1936 its been the benchmark against which every other bolt-action rifle is measured. Discover the riflemans rifle for yourself.
Features & Design:
- Satin Finish Walnut Stock w/ Classic Featherweight Cut Checkering & Schnabel
- Polished Metal Surfaces
- Alloy One-piece Bottom Metal
- Forged Steel Receiver w/ Integral Recoil Lug Bedded in Front & Rear
- Pre-64 Style Controlled Round Feed w/ Claw Extractor
- Three-position Safety
- Cold Hammer-forged Free-floating featherweight Profile Barrel
- Recessed Target Crown
- MoA Trigger System
- Blade-Type Ejector
- Pachmayr Decelerator Recoil Pad
Tech Specs at a Glance:
- Caliber: 7mm-08 Rem
- Barrel Length: 22.0"
- Action: Short Action
- Length of Pull: 13.75"
- Drilled & Tapped: Yes
- Drop at Comb: 0.50"
- Drop at Heel: 0.75"
- Rate of Twist: 1:9.50"
- Magazine Type: Hinged Floor Plate
- Magazine Capacity: 5+1
- Wood Grade: 1
- Stock Material: Black Walnut
- Stock Finish: Satin
- Barrel Material: Steel
- Receiver Material: Steel
- Trigger Material: Stainless Steel
- Overall Length: 42.25"
- Weight: 6.12 lbs.
SPECIFICATIONS | | Caliber | 7mm-08 Rem | Trigger | M.O.A. Trigger system | Action | Bolt Short Action | Sight / Mount | Drilled and Tapped
| Barrel | Steel | Barrel Finish | Brushed Polish | Barrel Length | 22.0" | Rate of Twist | 1:9.50"
| Muzzle Thread | No | Stock Material | Wood G1 Satin | Magazine style: | Hinged floorplate | Magazine Capacity: | 5+1 | Length: | 42.25"
| Weight: | 6.12 lbs. |
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7mm-08 Remington:
The 7mm-08 Remington is a rifle cartridge that is almost a direct copy of a wildcat cartridge developed around 1958 known as the 7mm/308. As these names would suggest, it is the .308 Winchester case necked down to accept 7 mm (.284) bullets with a small increase in case length. Of cartridges based upon the .308, it is the second most popular behind only the .243 Winchester. However, the .308 is more popular than both. In 1980, the Remington Arms company popularized the cartridge by applying its own name and offering it as a chambering for their Model 788 and Model 700 rifles.
Suggested Use:
- Deer
- Black Bear
- Sheep / Goat
- Moose
- Elk
Performance:
With the wide range of bullet weights available, the 7mm-08 is suitable for varminting, game-hunting, silhouette, and long-range shooting. It is also suitable for plains game. For long-range target and metallic silhouette shooting, the plastic-tipped 162gr A Max has proven to be very accurate with a 0.625 BC (G1). This A Max bullet, and the 150gr Sierra Match King, are popular with silhouette shooters.
The 7mm 08 Remington works in most hunting environments, including dense forest areas and large open fields. It has a flatter trajectory than the .308 Win. and .30-06 Springfield at similar bullet weights because the slightly smaller-diameter 7mm bullet generally has a better ballistic coefficient (BC), and is thus less affected by drag and crosswind while in flight. Its trajectory is comparable to the .270 Winchester.
Its recoil is a bit more than a .243 Win. and less than most loads in a .308 Win. This mild recoil makes it suitable for youth and adults who are new shooters; however, the cartridge serves experienced shooters and hunters equally well.
Howard Brant of Shooting Industry magazine wrote: the 7mm 08 is a real sleeper as far as the hunting field is concerned. It is a grand cartridge which packs more than sufficient wallop to efficiently down all medium-sized big-game animals found in North America and elsewhere.
Wayne van Zwoll of Petersens Hunting magazine wrote: Efficient case design and a bullet weight range suitable for most North American big game make the 7mm 08 a fine choice for all-around hunting. Civil in recoil, it's a perfect match for lightweight, short-action rifles. It has also courted favor on metallic silhouette ranges, where its 140 grain bullets reach 500 yard targets faster and with as much energy as 150-grain .308s. He also described it as deadly for elk.
David E. Petzal of Field & Stream, wrote, The virtues of the 7mm/08 include very light recoil, not much muzzle blast, plenty of bullet weight to do the job, and gilt-edged accuracy.
The 7mm 08, with appropriate loads, meets the required standard for moose hunting in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Such loads allow it, for that purpose, to be compared favorably with the 6.5x55mm, 7x57mm, 7x57mmR, .300 Savage, .303 British, and some .308 Winchester and .270 Winchester loads; they have killed many moose.
With appropriately constructed bullets, the cartridge is usable on elk, black bears and hogs.
It must be stressed, though, that the 7mm-08 Rem. is unsuitable for use on the three big bears. polar, brown, and grizzly. and on other dangerous game. In a self-defensive situation requiring stopping power on dangerous game at close range, use of a larger and heavier caliber is strongly advised. Stephen Herrero, a bear behavior expert, cites a study by the U. S. Forestry Service in Alaska that concluded the .458 Win. Mag. with a 510gr load, 375 H.&H. Mag. with a 300gr load, .338 Win Mag. with a 300gr load, and .30-06 with a 220gr load were "superior for protection against bears
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