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Thread: 7mm08 reload - noob

  1. 07-10-2016, 05:32 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axel View Post
    I am doing 43gr 2208 with a 139 sst in my model 7 708
    Be careful with the 139sst

    Some batches of those projectiles have been hard as nails and just drill through light thin skinned deer like Sika/Fallow and they run off to die a long long way away.
    A big fast bullet beats a little fast bullet every time
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    Quote Originally Posted by 7mmsaum View Post
    Be careful with the 139sst

    Some batches of those projectiles have been hard as nails and just drill through light thin skinned deer like Sika/Fallow and they run off to die a long long way away.
    And others do this.....

    Entry side surface blow up
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    Stopped using them after this.
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    Looks dead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GWH View Post
    And others do this.....

    Entry side surface blow up
    Attachment 56952

    Stopped using them after this.
    That was my experience with them more than once in 30cal also.
    Also stopped useing them and wet barnes for bush.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmay View Post
    Looks dead.
    Yeah....... but fark

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    haven't shot game with the sst yet but that is crazy
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    I have a 22inch barrel rem 700 pushn 150lrab with 43.1grains at 2750
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    Using 2208
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