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7-08 reloads with 145 gr bullet or 120’s |
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275rigby 
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 Topic: 7-08 reloads with 145 gr bullet or 120’sPosted: 28 January 2005 at 02:31 |
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any of you good ol boys have any good info on 260 or 7-08 hunting loads usin 145 speers (7mm) or 120 barnes (7mm) or 260 with 129 gr sst's. |
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Posted: 28 January 2005 at 02:37 |
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i haven't had a chance to do a lot of work w/ my 7-08 just yet... frontrunner favorites indicate that rl-15 and varget are about the best choices in the 7-08 w/ either bullet. never worked w/ a 260, so nothing there. however, given that it is the same basic case as the 308 and 7-08, and rl-15 and varget do well in my 308 and 7-08, i'd say your best start w/ the 260 is maybe varget. |
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Posted: 28 January 2005 at 04:04 |
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Varget was made for the 7-08 (I don't mean literally, but they sure do work together quite nicely). I use a max charge of 44 gr with a 140 Nos BT. I see no reason why it wouldn't work well with the 120 gr. Barnes or 145 Speer. A good alternative would be 4350 (H or IMR) and H-414. I've shot 150 Partitions that were VERY accurate using RL-19, but the velocity was a little slow... 2600 fps. (a little slow only in that I thought it would have been around 2700+, but I don't think a deer or elk would be able to tell the difference). Edited by Moose6 |
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Posted: 29 January 2005 at 10:27 |
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150 grain 7mm bullets @ 2600 FPS would pretty much duplicate the .300 Savage and would have a slight edge as range increased. That would make for a very mild load with very serious big game potential out to 200 yards or so.AW
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Posted: 29 January 2005 at 14:51 |
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I was looking through some targets and found that 7 or so years ago I was working on a load with the Speer 130 gr. bullet. With a full charge of H-414 I had 3025 fps... pretty darn close to a .270 with a bullet that is only .007" greater in dia. Hmmm, I may have to start working on that again.
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275rigby
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Posted: 29 January 2005 at 15:32 |
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thanks for the feedback re the 7-08 and 260. I tried 44 grains of 748 with the 120 BT in the 7-08 and it shot well. Still got to work something up for the 260 and will probably break out the Varget and Hornady sst's (129g). My problem is that I want a group under 1 in. in any of my rifles. My new ruger 77 compact in 7-08 is rather contrary but I'm still trying. My Rem mdl 7 in 260 is a shooter with several different bullets and loads.
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