11" 7mm08 Remington(Cause why not?!)

Saw a chassis (MDT LSS) pop up on trademe cheap, so bought it without a rifle to go into it. Luckily the seller also had a mint Remington 700 in 7mm08 for sale aswell, so picked that up at the same time. Chassis had been cerakoted by @BigEarl69 in an awesome green colour, and the rifle in a dark grey. Well me being a bit of a madman thought it looked too long, so off it went to my local smith for a "quick trim". Decided to go down to minimum legal OAL solely because it looks cool. And here we have the nearly finished product!

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Currently fitted with a Luth AR Chubby grip, Sonic 45 compact suppressor, Harris bipod and an Element HDLR 2-16x50. Also currently has a Luth AR buttstock, but that is being replaced with a proper MDT SCS lite stock. Overall I'm bloody happy how it turned out, extremely compact, light and pointible. Will it have the legs to hit something at 500-800m like the factory 21" barrel might have? Probably not. Will it be awesome to shoot at the range for a laugh(and fireballs with the can off) and still be able to knock over a sambar at 100-200m? Most definitely!! Looking forward to trying out some different rounds and see what it likes!

120g Nosler Ballistic Tips in front of 2206 powder

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Can confirm, these make deer very dead

Cheers! I don't currently reload, but a good buddy does, I'll get him to spin a few up!

Corelocks are pretty average compared to new designed bullets man they dont leave a massive wound channel. Go with something softer, bt or something like eldm

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120g Nosler Ballistic Tips in front of 2206 powder

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Nosler uses the same jacket for the 120 as they use for the 140 BT. It's a tough bullet. My son and I both use them in our 7mm-08s.

I've been near a bare muzzle .308 that short when it went off talk about loud! Then there was the muzzle flash visible in full sun, it would be illuminating at last light.

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Corelocks are pretty average compared to new designed bullets man they dont leave a massive wound channel. Go with something softer, bt or something like eldm

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Shot a few hundred deer with Coreloct 308 over the years. Deer didn’t seem to notice difference between them and my favourite Speer 150’s. Dead is fking dead. Early Nosler BT’s separated jacket and core most of time up to about 250m, impressive on goats though.

For a really short barrel I would go with a heavy, and potentially softer bullet.

More efficient under the circumstances.

Awesome rebuild
My loss your gain
Enjoy it 😉

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Awesome rebuild
My loss your gain
Enjoy it ��

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Haha thanks! Yep as soon as I saw the rifle for sale aswell, I just knew I needed to do this! Extremely happy with it!

Hi, there are ( or were) a bullet from nosler and one from hornady in 7mm flat point designed for the 7mm shooting time easterner cartridge and 7-30-30. Which is a lever gun cartridge. They are designed to expand at slightly lower velocities than the current 7-08 speed. That could work in your short barrel gun….

If anyone has any 120bt's pm me. Been trying for ages to get hold of some.

+1 on the 120bt. If you can find any. Otherwise the Hornady 139sst with 42 Grains or 2208 is also an awesome combo.

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+1 on the 120bt. If you can find any. Otherwise the Hornady 139sst with 42 Grains or 2208 is also an awesome combo.

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On an 11 inch barrel?

The pyrotechnics are going to be spectacular!

Going to have a fair bit of muzzle flash at night time regardless of the combination you use to be fair, unless you sacrificed even more speed and went to a powder with a really fast burn rate but i doubt the OP is going to want to slow it down any further than it already will be with the 11" bbl.

2208 would be one of the better choices of powder to use.

You won't need to wait till nighttime with this setup. And yes i have tried a similar setup.

Also do not use it when there is a fire risk, the last thing we need is a hunter setting some public land on fire.

You will still be able to reach ~2000 fps with this setup and a heavier bullet which is plenty.

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Hi, there are ( or were) a bullet from nosler and one from hornady in 7mm flat point designed for the 7mm shooting time easterner cartridge and 7-30-30. Which is a lever gun cartridge. They are designed to expand at slightly lower velocities than the current 7-08 speed. That could work in your short barrel gun….

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7mmwaters is the 7mm-30/30 I believe agree projectiles should be ideal...like using 30/30 ones in loaded down 308 for youth/low recoil no reason it couldnt be used in ANY 7mm for same purpose. pretty sure our man on tokoroa is doing a 120grn hp cast jobbie too.

If you can.

Run the 162gr eld M if you can. I run 160gr TMK out of my 16" and have never had a issue with shit dropping on the spot. Bit of 2208 should do the trick.

Technically this configuration should work with good muzzle velocity and with little muzzle flash, if hand loaded sensibly.
Just had a really quick look at what could be done in GRT, and 2480fps in an 11" barrel is doable with Nosler 120gn BT projectile, and N135 powder. Pretty sure there are better options, but this is what 5 minutes of tinkering in GRT looks like.
Complete powder burn before projectile leaves the barrel.
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Technically this configuration should work with good muzzle velocity and with little muzzle flash, if hand loaded sensibly.
Just had a really quick look at what could be done in GRT, and 2480fps in an 11" barrel is doable with Nosler 120gn BT projectile, and N135 powder. Pretty sure there are better options, but this is what 5 minutes of tinkering in GRT looks like.
Complete powder burn before projectile leaves the barrel.
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take the "complete powder burn" with a grain of salt.

I have a similar setup, grt claims the same thing (quick load does not) and its a flamethrower.

Complete powder burn doesn't equal all stop on the flame front continuing to expand. The flame front is what we see as flash.

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Complete powder burn doesn't equal all stop on the flame front continuing to expand. The flame front is what we see as flash.

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Indeed, but considerably less of a fireball than a factory 7mm08 load. :on fire:

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7mmwaters is the 7mm-30/30 I believe agree projectiles should be ideal...like using 30/30 ones in loaded down 308 for youth/low recoil no reason it couldnt be used in ANY 7mm for same purpose. pretty sure our man on tokoroa is doing a 120grn hp cast jobbie too.

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Out of interest who is the chap doing 120gr cast 7mm pills in Tokoroa?

Robert/shootersnz

Got it's first kill Thursday night, shooting a 139gr Hornady whitetail at around 2300fps!! A good mate of mine is working up a load for it with a Hornady 120gr V-max and some 2208, hoping for 2550-2600fps

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Have also fitted a Triggertech Special single stage, as the factory trigger had a break of 7.2 pounds!!

Be careful shooting bigger game with the vmax, probably be fine on a smallerbfallow in the right spot but would be cautious shooting bucks, reds or sambar

Nice setup, would it still be 'legal' if you used a folding or collapsible buttstock?

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Nice setup, would it still be 'legal' if you used a folding or collapsible buttstock?

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Would be too short unfortunately. I'm not sure, but I do think think they would buy "I promise I never fold it short"

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Have also fitted a Triggertech Special single stage, as the factory trigger had a break of 7.2 pounds!!

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Any idea of weight of the rifle and scope etc?