Thread: 7mm08 Projectiles - who's using what?

Following this with great interest
I have an 18 inch 708 and shoot out to 300...mostly but occasionally a little further on red deer.
Have only used factory rem 120 and federal 140 or 150 gr.
Be interested to find a handhold to improve accuracy and knockdown between 100 and 300m
Hope that's not a hijack
B

Originally Posted by Boxton

Following this with great interest
I have an 18 inch 708 and shoot out to 300...mostly but occasionally a little further on red deer.
Have only used factory rem 120 and federal 140 or 150 gr.
Be interested to find a handhold to improve accuracy and knockdown between 100 and 300m
Hope that's not a hijack
B

Boxton, Try and get hold of a couple of boxes of factory Norma 140 grain, which uses the Nosler ballistic tip. That will show you if you're getting the knockdown terminal performance you want. Around 300m the 7mm08 is dropping off in velocity, specially from a short 18" barrrel, so it won't be magic. I found I could get a bit better accuracy when handloading (30mm compared to 40mm at 100m) ) but that largely depends on how much you pay for equipment.

Thanks for the reply
I am now rolling my own for my 7mm08 with 18inch suppressed barrel
Using Hornady 139sst and brass with federal ir primers over adi2206h 42.5 grn from memory
Getting 2900fps with es of 25fps
Not target loading but I'm still learning and I have found on bush hunting whitetail fallow Reds and sheep it's plenty good enough

Originally Posted by Boxton

Thanks for the reply
I am now rolling my own for my 7mm08 with 18inch suppressed barrel
Using Hornady 139sst and brass with federal ir primers over adi2206h 42.5 grn from memory
Getting 2900fps with es of 25fps
Not target loading but I'm still learning and I have found on bush hunting whitetail fallow Reds and sheep it's plenty good enough

That's a pretty hot load. RL17 or Superformance maybe but 2206H? My manual taps out at 41.6