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. 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.
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