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Originally Posted by Dean2
My bet is you would consider a 7 Rem Mag more than adequate for moose. The 7-08 shoots EXACTLY the same bullets, just a couple of hundred feet per second slower. The 7-08 is the ballistic twin of the 7x57; Europeans have killed hundreds of thousands of Moose and Red Deer (1,100 pounds and similar to Elk) with that cartridge for over 100 years. Moose will never know the difference between the 7 Mag and the 7-08.
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Ok , I didn't know that . I always thought of a 7-08 as the 308 case necked down to the .284 and that seemed light too me
The ballistics are pretty good