Opinions on new 7 mm rem mag

[2labs]

Throw away all the Remington parts. Accept the action guess your stuck with that, and you'll have a nice rifle.

[Bob33]

Flinching has less to do with caliber than it does with proper training, proper gun fit, proper ear protection, rifle weight, and ammunition.

A poorly trained and poorly equipped shooter can develop a flinch with a .22. Most shooters, if properly trained and equipped, can learn to effectively shoot larger caliber firearms.

My son is 14 and has been effectively shooting (read "no flinch") 300 magnum rifles since he was 10. 

[arrowflinger]

Why not take the $1200 and put it into turning your rifle into a nice custom. New stock, barrel, trigger, ....

 
I agree with all the others that said to modify the one you have. If I'm going to spend 1200 I'm dropping it on another rifle in a different caliber.

[rbros]

Use the action you have and build from it. You can get exactly what you want a guaranteed performance spec. 

[Rich_S]

Check out Howa. They have a new mountain rifle that's 5.7 pounds. Or the  standard 1500. Twice the quality you'll get from Rem. or Savage

   You could buy the bare action/barrel and either outfit it with a Bishop stock or an all-weather synthetic and still have plenty left over for a good scope.

This one's a Weatherby Vanguard, but it's the same rifle as the Howa.

[M_ray]

I would be with others in saying that I would sink the money and time into re-barreling this one but I'm not mistaken a page or two ago it sounds like the OP wants to pass the one he has on to his son or grandson? In which case I'm partial to Savage myself and would love to tell you that's the best gun in the world and buy it. But I buy savages cause that's what I am familiar with so I would say if you shot a rem 700 for that many years build another!   

[M_ray]

Oh and Beancounter, your comments make a lot of assumptions that every magnum hunter is going to be like this one guy you had a bad expirence with. I can tell you that there are just as many people that can shoot them up and pin cushion a deer's butt, take shots farther than they are capable and pull shots with a 243 or 30/06 just as with a magnum. So I'd caution you to understand that it is probably more about the individual than the caliber.   

[high country]

Once you have a nicely built custom......you'll wonder why it took so,long to buy it.

[Dan-o]

I've always been partial to the 7MM Rem Mag, and I still am.

I shot a Browning for a lot of years, and also a Remington.

I never knew how good a shot I was til I bought my Savage 111.....     

I got  the 111 and put a  Nikon 4X16 on it........    It actually is a laser beam from heaven (to quote Simcoe).

And if your budget is $1,200, that leaves about $400 for ammo.