Thread: 7mm-08

Greetings @saljer,
While I have never owned a 7mm-08 I have loaded for a few over 40 years. The cartridge came out before the long high BC boat tail projectiles became common and cartridges loaded to mag length with these may have the ogive below the case mouth, not a good thing. Currently I am loading a model 700 with a 26" 1 in 8.5" twist for F-Class shooting at 600 yards. I am using 145 grain Speer flat base projectiles over AR2206H (H4895) powder as that is what I had in stock but will move onto 162 grain projectiles and AR2208 (Varget) in the near future. I once described the 7mm-08 as the product of a .243 and a .308 cartridge left in a dark place unsupervised. The cross seems to have combined some of the better points of both cartridges.
Regards Grandpamac.