The 7mm-08 is not a hard recoiling cartridge, but the recoil pad helps with some of the larger cartridges that this rifle is chambered in. There is also a Pachmayr decelerator recoil pad to help absorb some of the recoil from the rifle. The Weatherby rifles also have the Bell & Carlson matte gel coat finish applied to the entire outside of the stock. This particular Accumark rifle had a stock finished in tan with the black webbing accent. The cheekpiece is still smooth on the right hand side which allows left handed shooters to still be able to shoot a right handed rifle if needed, but it is not intended to be done. It has a raised cheekcomb on the left hand side of the buttstock which is what makes the stock a ‘monte-carlo’ style. The Accumark rifles have a monte-carlo style synthetic stock that is built for them by Bell & Carlson. They charge more for their rifles and as such they do not need to build as many of any one model to justify putting it into production, and that typically ends up being a good thing for the niche market such as this. Because Weatherby has never been nearly as large as Remington, Savage, and some of the other rifle builders out there, it allows them to be a bit more flexible when building their rifles, which is why a product such as the Accumark chambered in 7mm-08 shows up on the market.
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They still make beautiful wood stocked rifles, which is a good thing as there is nothing like putting a warm wood stock to your cheek when hunting, but they have also modernized and moved forward with modern technology. Weatherby rifles are typically known for their beautiful wood stocked sporter rifles, but Weatherby also started making a move to synthetic stocks a while back as the feasibility and popularity of the durable synthetic stocks built up. 260 Remington, which is essentially the same concept as the 7mm-08, but instead of necking it down to 7mm, it is necked down to 6.5mm (.264 caliber). We thought it might be worth checking out the 7mm-08 and seeing if it could work as a sniping cartridge and we especially wanted to compare it to the. The reasoning is that there are some excellent bullets with good ballistic coefficients available in the 7mm caliber. It is still fairly popular as a light recoiling hunting cartridge for medium sized game, but there are those out there that advocate it as a good mid-range cartridge suitable for sniping, or similar activities, out to 1000 yards. The 7mm-08 Remington is simply a 308 Winchester necked down to 7mm and was for a long time a wildcat cartridge with good popularity, so Remington simply commercialized it. Currently the Accumark is not available in the 7mm-08 but for a while they offered it as a standard cartridge in the Accumark lineup. What is extra unique about this review is that the rifle is not chambered in one of the popular sniping cartridges such as the 308, 300 Win Mag or even the 260, but instead, this rifle is chambered in 7mm-08 Remington. When the opportunity came up, we thought it might be a good time to take a look at these higher end Weatherby Accumark rifles and see if they might be suitable for sniper use. It also includes many of the Weatherby specific magnum cartridges such as the 257 or 7mm Weatherby Magnums. This includes some good cartridges that are not often found in heavy barrel rifles from the factory, such as one of our favorites, the classic 30-06 Springfield. 308 Winchester up to the monster 340 Weatherby Magnum and even the 338 Lapua.
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What is unique about the Accumark line of rifles is the large number of different cartridges this rifle is chambered for. This time around we had the opportunity to take a look at Weatherby’s higher end Varmint/Long Range rifle known as the Accumark which uses the same Mark V action as the TRR rifle. That rifle has been upgraded with a better stock but otherwise is largely the same as when we reviewed it. We have also looked at their lower end varmint rifle known as the Vanguard Varmint Special which is based off of the Howa 1500 action and barrel.