Yes. Must get back onto them.
Did Theo tell you I dropped some meat in for him?
Does the model 7 in saum have any trouble with Cartridge OAL?
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Im running 165 accubonds at a touch over mag length (2.910) which doesnt really bother me, I have a few loaded up that fit iin the mag and shoot to the same point of impact so will keep them in the mag for spook and shoot, its just a little bit more accurate with the longer oal, hardly anything in it to tell the truth.
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Here's one of my Mod 7's in 7MM SAUM all ready for its trip south for weight reduction surgery 😉
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And again all you right-handed folks get it lucky, us lefties are stuck with boring old tikkas
This is my 300saum, it's had the bolt and barrel fluted and trigger set to 2.5lb by Robbie at gunworks and trued up when it was put back together, limbsaver, bedded in laminate stock and has a MAE muzzle forward can on it.
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@223nut I'm a leftie, I do everything left handed except shoot, my dad obviously saw I was gonna have trouble finding rifles when I was older so he made me shoot right handed from day one and now it's natural and feels strange to shoot left handed.
That was sensible of him!! Sadly I didn't have anyone 'teach' me how to shoot it's all been self-taught including bad habits I'm sure lol
I think I may have to try seating longer than mag length.
@Tikka7mm08 I'll measure mine tonight and put them up here.
This is my latest model 7. Latest version in 223 Rem that I got off @Dreamer.
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Fitted up a Vortex diamondback 4-12 x40, had the trigger lightened nicely.
Loaded up a few rounds to test. I'm thinking it likes these....
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3 @100
and @ 300
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The 55 SGK is doing just shy of 3100 from the 18" barrel.
Now to load up a bunch of them and go splatter some critters.
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I have 300Saum Norma necked down, but a few Rem 7mmsaum brass I could try. I just like Norma...but 67gn is max in the Norma brass - pressure and capacity from memory.
Righto...better stop paying it forward by giving away the Rem brass!
Im getting 3080fps using 165 accubond and 70gn 2213sc using rem brass, I have a sh*t tonne of brass if anyone needs a few, all once and twice fired, cleaned and sized
That's impressive. I'll happily remove some brass from you ;) but have a few hopefully ok for reloading. Will need to try 2213SC...got a shitload of 2213 but the SC probably needed to get it in the case.
Yes it requires a bit of finesse to get it to fit in the case and the few rounds I have seated to mag length are pretty compressed but seem to work well enough.
Flick me your address if you want :)
Mag length too...70gn is 10gn over max with 162gn...how is the pressure?
I got to 70.5gn and got the odd sticky bolt but was getting ejector marks on every shot so backed it off to 70 and its been fine
ADI lists 68gn 2213sc as max load using a 168gr sierra matchking seated to 2.825 which is what I based the load off to start with, started at 65gr though so took me a while but got there in the end, found 68.5 shot very well also
@Tikka7mm08 7SAUM and 162 a- max base to tip projectile 2.934"/74.52mm base to ogive 2.232"/56.59"
Cheers. I use the hornady one. Not sure how people reload without one to be fair, bloody handy
@Gibo Yep, hornady comparator. Sits on the blade of your calipers. You need micrometer style dies for them to work properly. I deliberately seat them long, measure them, work out how many thou deeper they need to go, then wind the die down that far. Works pretty well within a thou or so.
I've got Hornady dies and bought a micrometer stem to replace the normal seating stem.
Yep I seat long then work the die down after remeasuring seating depth.
Don't know, it was a hornady micrometer stem, don't know what the thread is.
@stug @7mmsaum @GWH
67gn 2217, Rem brass, Fed 215, 162gn amax....mag length. Looks like 0.45" at 100y. Very please as weather this morning not great.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...d62df10a23.jpg
PS 3 shots!
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Nice, think I'm going to have to re-do my 162 amax load now I have the Rem brass thanks to @Tikka7mm08 , just got about 10 of the Norma case loads to get rid of first.
...about that Rem brass.... ;)
Nothing wrong with my barrel, will shoot 0.5MOA when I do my part. But I'm using Nosler custom brass and only using 65gr 2217 for 2816 fps. Went up to 67 but didn't increase enough to be worthwhile. Hear a lot people using rem brass and 67gr 2217 getting over 2900 fps.