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Post by deadeer on Nov 20, 2021 13:14:24 GMT -5
Took another big doe this morning with the new 7-08 Encore rifle barrel. Such a great cartridge, fast, accurate, low recoil, very efficient and versatile in what feeds it. Definately a plus in todays component crisis times. She came out of the thicket and stopped at 50yds. Took her just below the head. Look how jacked up her neck got!!!  A little later, a spike walked into the thicket, and a few minutes later it came out as a nice 8pt. I told that to my boy Luke and he said "how did it do that?" LMAO. My buck tag is already punched, so he will live for another time.
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Post by elkman1310 on Jan 25, 2022 16:42:38 GMT -5
7-08 is a great cartridge and like so many others it gets overlooked. If they renamed it to 7-08 Creedmoor they would sell a ton of those. they 308 family of cartridges all make good deer killers.
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Post by 71yella on Jan 25, 2022 20:56:03 GMT -5
Agree with both of you, my wife has been using one for close to 20yrs and I know if she flips the safety off it's not good for whatever she's looking at thru the scope. Been using factory loads but this year I switched her to 139sst handloads. Congratulations on that one.
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