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7 "oh" 8 14 21.21%
7mm "ought" 8 18 27.27%
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Old 10-20-2010, 04:50 PM
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Default 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.
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Old 10-20-2010, 04:54 PM
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7mm 8
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Old 10-20-2010, 04:56 PM
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Always call mine the '7 mil ought 8'. Heard it called otherwise too.....
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708 all the way
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:14 PM
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Always call mine the '7 mil ought 8'. Heard it called otherwise too.....
Same here, but I often say 7mil oh 8 too
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708 all the way
I always picture a .70 calibre when I hear that....a long way to neck up a humble .308!
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:27 PM
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I just say 708 and it irks everyone off, so I just keep saying it. hehehe

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tomatoe-tomatos type thing but I'm just curious.

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Old 10-20-2010, 05:39 PM
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7 mil odd 8? 30 odd 6? 25 odd 6?
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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?

thats my thinking anywho.
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:02 PM
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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?
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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?

thats my thinking anywho.
Elderly people lol.......................Children know better

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
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7mm 8
I agree. I refer to mine as P.O.S.
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I agree. I refer to mine as P.O.S.
Maybe it's the way you yank the trigger...?
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