anyone in here do any varminting with the 7mm Remington Magnum? If so, what ranges and what gun?

I've shot 1 coyote with my 7mm Mag, with a 160 gr. Partition, I was hunting bear. If I was looking for a load for coyotes, I would go with the 120 gr. Hornady V-Max, or the 162 gr. A-Max. Both are light-jacketed, so will expand very fast.

When I had a Browning (FN action) in 7mm Rem Mag I used it once on woodchucks. I hit one at a paced 375 yards with a 140 Nosler Partition and it did very impressive damage.

This rifle was not a tack driver but a pretty good shooter. I had already had a .264 Win Mag for chucks that was more suitable or to be more honest less suitable for game as it had a 1-12 twist and a 26" bbl with freebore! The problem with both of these is that the recoil tears the skin off of you when dressed in a tee shirt from the prone position. But for anchoring whatever these hard hitters that include the 30/06 are the way to go.

Until I got on the internet I never thought of winging away at anything at long range just to see if I could hit it. Now that laser range finders are available I am thinking about it. So far I just hunt them.

Browning A-bolt 2 120gr BT on crows @ 350yds. I haven't seen the coyote yet.

I am kinda partial to my 300 Win Mag and 190 Matchkings for varmints!!

I bought a 7mm-300 weatherby Benchrest rifle @ 25 lbs. to shoot prarie dogs. With Hornady V-Max bullets it shot .164" groups at 100 yards. My took his first shot with it at a group of prarie dogs at 400 yards and I told him to shoot the first dog. When we walked up to the mound all 4 dogs were dead. It was like bowling and the range was 413 yards. Since then I have gone to a fast twist 22-250 with 75gr A-max bullets and have connected at 592 meters about 660 yards with a one shot kill. This set up is more user friendly.

Ted

in the 70tys the only c fire i owened was a 7mm mag win m70 ,shot hundreds of chucks speer 115-hp loaded the buttstock holes with shot for varmit season ,made recoil tolerable,use .222 now need to keep retinas intact. never did get groups under 1.5 in good enough for 300yds on chucks ,buc

Hey, a fellow's got to do something with that 7mm mag when it's not elk or deer season! My 7mm mag Sendero with either a 4.5-14 or 6.5-20 has been a great coyote & rockchuck stomper with 140 grain ballistic tip Noslers. Can use the same load for deer or varmints. Yup, there are some big & powerful varmint rifles out there! Ranges, hmmm, I'd get to telling tall tales, but 400 - 500 yards is within the realm of the truth! Great practice for hunting season eh? Guy

Yeah, I grew up shootin' a 7MM Mag. My mom bought my dad one for his birthday in '62. I killed my second deer with it in '66 at a distance of 20 feet. We had a dairy farm and had alfalfa fields along a ridge top north of the house. 440 yards to the first fence 880 to the second. Dad put up marker flags every fifty yards from 300 on out. We used 160 grain Sierra GameKings loaded REAL hot (didn't know any better back then). Along the east side of the fields was an old county road with a rock wall. Hog heaven. Dad and I killed several hundred each over the years. I got a couple dozen out to 500 yards or so. Unlike most people from the Ozarks, I know what long range is.