re: Question about hunting rifles...7mm Magnum vs. 30 .06 vs. .270

If I didn't have elk or something along those lines in my future I wouldn't bother with a 7mm Mag. Like I'm sure people have said on here already, and no I didn't read it, it's overkill on whitetails. And you shouldn't even be thinking about anything beyond 300 yrds if you aren't a serious shooter who's got a shitload of time behind a scope making a bruise on your shoulder.

As for 30.06 vs. 270, it makes no difference. They're interchangeable and can smack a whitetail down at whatever range you can hit it.

As for the rifle itself, I'm a 700 Remington partisan. Can make even the cheapest ones stack rounds on top of each other but if I was going for that kind of accuracy, I wouldn't choose any of those rounds, I'd pick something with a short action like .308.

That said, there are a lot of rifles these days that shoot sub MOA out the box and you're unlikely to ever need anything beyond that to kill a whitetail so get something that you're comfortable toting around all day and feel proud to show off because honestly, that's mostly what you're going to be doing with it at the camp, and something that won't make you flinch from recoil.

Invest at least as much in the optics and mounts that go on it. That's another subject though.