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

In terms of velocity, I'm getting 2750fps with the eld m out of a full length 24 barrel non suppressed. But having just changed to 2208 powder an seating them in to fit in the mag I cannot fit anymore powder in the case if I wanted to.
Before I had a dail up scope I tried the 120 bt an cranked it right up to try get as flatter shooting as possible but it resulted in a few blow ups etc so gave the idea away an went back to 140 bt which worked really well until I changed to the 110gr ttsx, this bullet for me was fairly unimpressive although I'd did have some great velocity it didnt drop the few animals I shot with it so went on to the eld m, which has been good so far, an seems to be accurate at various seating depths and charge weights.

180 eldm in mine....loaded long with good ole 2209 for 2650fps

I'm running good old 150 grain factory federal hotcors in an 18.5 barrel. They have never let me down and perform well with minimal damage out to 300 on red skins, fallow, pigs. I've also found ppu 140 print roughly the same poi
so I use those on the goats as a cheaper option. I'd be really keen to try the 162s and 140 swift A frames Ron Spommer uses on African game. Anyone here tried them?

I've put a red dot sight on my 708 and running 145gr speer btsp at ~2500. Might drop down to 7-30 waters speeds if the pill still mushrooms ok.

You guys are getting good results with 162s and 180s.

When I get bored with current setup id prolly do a 150eld x at ~2750. 150s seem a happy medium in the 'little 7 that could'

140 NBT

I think its cheaper and better to develop and verify just one load even if the bullets are more expensive.

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.

Had a play with some Speer 130gn BTSP and gotta say they did impress me. I compared them with the 120gn Nosler bt. Both running 2208, the 120gn going at 3000fps and the 130gn at 2850fps. Both very acurrate but the Speer 130gn was shooting ragged holes and is also nearly half the price of the Nosler

Those speer are great

yep, Speer make very good projectiles, and the price is hard to beat.

I’ve tried all sorts on deer - 110 ttsx real good, 120 ttsx real good, 120 ballistic tips real good, 140 ballistic tips real good, 120 Sierra real good, 140 prohunter and gameking real good, 139 hornady real good, 162 amax real good. All good bullets and now I just use a 140 ballistic tip cause it’s good up close and out to 400 yards sweet.

It’s a deep rabbit hole to go down - but fun all the same eh!