7mm "oh"8 or "ought" 8
 

I had someone talking to me the other day about the 7mm08 and it got me wondering. HOw do you all pronounce it? I have only heard it called a 7mm "oh"8, or a 7 "oh"8. The the other day someone called it the 7mm "ought"8. Kind of an tomatoe-tomatos type thing but I'm just curious.

Not in the poll.

7mm :sign0161: 8

Always call mine the '7 mil ought 8'. Heard it called otherwise too.....

708 all the way

Same here, but I often say 7mil oh 8 too

I always picture a .70 calibre when I hear that....a long way to neck up a humble .308!:)

I just say 708 and it irks everyone off, so I just keep saying it. hehehe

I'm happy.

7-08
 

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7 mil odd 8? 30 odd 6? 25 odd 6?

odd? aought !! as in what elderly people use to call zero.

.308 is the name because its the bullet diameter.

30-06 is because of year isnt it? 30 calibre came out in aought 6?

so in that case 7mm aought 8 wouldnt make any sense.
as its a 308 case with a 7mm bullet ....no? :thinking-006:

thats my thinking anywho.

Generally in N.A. when we "wild cat" a cartridge to a new one we name it by stating the new "caliber" (7mm) and follow that with the parent cartridge.(.308)

When the cartridge in question here became "legitimate" as a factory round with factory rifles built for it, it was baptized 7mm-08. I pronounce that 7mm"oh 8. On the rifle barrel and on the head of the cartridge appears 7mm-08.

So if would be confusing to call it anything else. Like 708 or 7mil "ought" 8. If I asked a guy behind the counter at a sports shop if he had any 708 "shells" he would likely say "no sir".

In Australia they do a wildcat by necking .303 brit. down to .25 cal. I called it a .25/.303 and they said no its a .303/.25. They do drive on the other side of the road from us too.

A .303/.25 would make a nice deer/coyote round back in Alberta don't you think?

Elderly people lol.......................Children know better:thinking-006:

It's aught, ought or naught....never "aought"......and it simply means zero. So 7mm aught 8 is just as reasonable as 30 aught 6

Even Jethro Bodine got it right when he said he wanted to be a double naught spy:). Before your time though...

7mm aught 8 is fine by me.............but I call mine a 7OH8

7-08
 

I agree. I refer to mine as P.O.S. :angry3:

Maybe it's the way you yank the trigger...?:sHa_sarcasticlol: