The Mashburn was able to drive a 160 grain bullet at 3200fps and for medium game hunting at both close and longer ranges, the Mashburn was an emphatic killer. The situation became heated when Jack O'Connor gifted his. 275 H&H magnum (load at the time was a 175 grain bullet at 2680fps) to wildcatter Les Bowman. Impressed with the idea of a 7mm magnum, Bowman in turn had a. 338 Win Mag necked down to 7mm by Fred Huntington of RCBS, naming it the. Bowman had no trouble impressing his friend Mike Walker of Remington with the new cartridge. Recoil levels were approximately the same as the ever popular. 30-06 yet the 7mm produced a much flatter trajectory and excellent down range terminal performance. In 1962, after much experimentation at the Bowman ranch, Remington released the 7mm Remington Magnum. Almost overnight it made several fine cartridges near obsolete, among them the.
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