7mm remington pet loads 140-180 grain

[wapiti25]

I shot a rem 700 factory gun with 162Hornady bullets loaded with H870 and CCI250 primers. This load worked good for me and was fast. I did move the throat out but I was shooting the loads real hot and about 400 or 500 of that load as well as others.

 

[k80skeet]

Re: 7mm remington pet loads 140-180 grain (RANGE RESULTS)

I have had the rifle at the range a couple of times with mixed results. I have not had any luck with Retumbo, Rl-19 or H4831 I have tried them with 140gr Sierra spbt ,140gr Berger VLD's 130gr 150& 168gr SMK's The only real good groups I have had came from RL-22 64.0 with 150gr SMK under 3/8" I now have just about 100 rounds through the rifle. It should be broken in now. I have just change the scope and bases to see if there may be a problem. I have had great luck with Broughton barrels in the pasted and Brian Volker is one of the best rimfire gun smiths in the country so I know the rifle was put togather right. I will keep you posted after scope change. I may be shooting loads that are on the heavy side. I haven't had any signs of pressure. I am going to back them down a little to see if I get better results.

 

[Stonewall]

For 160 -175 grain bullets

If you can find some H-870 powder try WW cases , start at 78 grains with a CCI-250 primer .
I have used 80.5 with 160 Nosler partition for 3076 fps at 0 degrees temp with a Fed 215 primer in a 24 " Ruger barrel .

These loads are very accurate in my rifles.

For 140's try IMR-4350 - start low and work up load for accuracy.

For hunting loads I jump the bullets .025 " to the lands.

Glenn

 

[k80skeet]

H870 is impossible to find around here, I loved it in my 264 Winchester Magnun but haven't seen any in years.

 

[loinhunter]

Great loads here. Using 71.0 gr imr 7977, 140 nosler accubonds , cci 250 , ww cases getting around .65 in groups consistently from an old 110 savage. 7977 seems to help with copper scrub, but very sooty.

 

[AckleymanII]

From many 700's, couple of A bolts, Browning BAR's, and two savages. Bed the actions before you fire a shot, freefloat barrel, tune trigger. Clean every 20 shots, 30 shots max using good brushes and super copper remover. Do not shoot the barrel hot! We had trouble with 130g speers and 140g Sierra's blowing up on shoulders at 3200-3300 fps. We had hang fires with IMR 4064. For reduced loads, 120g sierra with 61g of IMR 4350 killed very well@3000 fps. I had a 150g Sierra match king blow up on the shoulder of a large buck at 320 yards..cured me of using match kings. Two savages had to be de coppered every 9-12 shots to keep shooting small groups. Rough barrels on these rifles copper fouled badly, but until around 9 shots, they would shoot 3/8" groups, then went to 3/4", then to 1 1/2" groups. The loads they liked were the 140g load below.

140g Nosler ballistic tip, Barnes tipped tripple shock(jump .050), 140g Accubond
140g Partition

65-66g of IMR 4350, Rem case, 9 1/2,
In all cases but the TTSX, seat the bullets to touch the lands. The vast majority of rifles will like 65.5 or 66g, but start lower and work up.
3200 fps+ depending on the rifle

120g Nosler, ttsx
72-73g of R#22
CCI 250*****
Rem case
Bug holes abound
120g Nosler did not always shoot holes through deer, but they were dead within 40 feet. We never found a ttsx. This is an very, very accurate load in most 7 mags.

150 Noslers, sierra, 154g Interbond and SST(fabulous bullet), 154g Hornady- Sp(shoots holes through both shoulders of large hogs)
63.0g of IMR 4350, Rem case, Rem 9 1/2

154g Hornady SP
Rem brass
72-73g of R#25-back off and work up, suggest that you start at 69g, this is one heck of an accurate load in every rifle I have shot it in, and I would not use it in a BAR
Win mag primer instead of a 215 is very important
Bullet .010 off the lands
3200 fps, tiny groups, less than 10 fps SD

162 SST-tough bullet, shocking so much so, unlike the 154g SST which is about right for deer that I shot
71.0g of Retumbo
Fed 215
Rem brass
3100 fps in a 26" bbl

Short range(300 yds and under)
160g Sierra BTSP
61g of IMR 4350-Rem 9 1/2
61g of IMR 4831 for BAR's
CCI 250
Rem case
If you don't want a deer to run, this is your load. Through the 80's, family here has killed over 300 deer with this load as liberal limits permitted. We changed loads out of boredom.

 

[krummarine]

Tag. One of my favorite rounds.

 

[Slim13]

Somewhere between 68.5-71 grains of H1000 lit by any magnum primer with Berger 168 VLD’s. Find your node and adjust seating as necessary.

 

[Gb300wm]

N560 and RL22 are great with the above listed bullet weights. You can’t go wrong

 

[Gary O'Neal]

Tag

 

[snert]

68 grains 7828 standard primer, 150 grain NBT

 

[2506]

I once had a factory Rem 700 SS 7mm Mag. that you could fill a previously fired case that had been just part sized by just bumping the shoulder full of Accurate 3100 and stick most any 120 to 160 gr bullet in the case and it would shoot bug holes. That was before all these new slooooooow burning powders came along.