Why is the 7mm BR Missing/Excluded @ accurateshooter.com?

[Hamish the Irish Amish]

Hello, a couple of years ago I ran across accurateshooter.com looking for load info on the 7mm BR when I added it to the silhouette stable. 22BR, 6BR, 30BR, all right out in the open and lots of information.

If you do a search from the home page for 7mm BR, 7BR, 7br, NOTHING COMES UP.

Am I missing something, or is the Seven persona non grata here?

 

[wapiti25]

Just not popular with this group of shooters. The score shooters goto the 30 cal.

 

[Scotsman1]

Hey Hamish, its the same with the 25BR and the 270BR. It's kinda like, what's the point? The variances in ballistics aren't enough to justify the cost of a build. Especially, when one can chamber a 30BR for score.
It's about making a big hole, in the smallest place.

A cost-benefit analysis!
Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[.260 james]

Hello, a couple of years ago I ran across accurateshooter.com looking for load info on the 7mm BR when I added it to the silhouette stable. 22BR, 6BR, 30BR, all right out in the open and lots of information.

If you do a search from the home page for 7mm BR, 7BR, 7br, NOTHING COMES UP.

Am I missing something, or is the Seven persona non grata here?

The 7mm Br is a bit of a Group selective thing. The silhoutte crowd used to really like them. The benchrest crowd seem to ignore it entirely. I on the other hand used it successfully in an xp-100 and a handy little 700 for a number of years as a primary deerand woodchuck gun.
The trouble seems to me is , all the good accuracy bullets in 7mm tend to be heavy enough to slow a 7mm br. too much. The 7 mm is at its best I believe for hunting in the 120-140 gr. bullets. With newer bullets on the market and IMR8208xbr out I think I would like to persue another xp-100. I miss a compact 4 lb. package that would shoot .5" on demand!

 

[Hamish the Irish Amish]

Thanks for the replies gentlemen, though I am not a BR guy, periodically I get some great info here. As mentioned the round in the XP is a delight to shoot and shoot accurately. It just seemed odd that it seemed so pointedly missing from all the great info on the home page. I guess I'll just have to soldier along with my ballistically inferior self. (and the XP)

 

[.260 james]

If it helps you any, my hunting loads all used H322. But now with IMR 8208xbr, I would start there. I had some success with the old AA 2015. But have not used any in awhile.

 

[jonbearman]

I would almost swear that the hornady manual has a section on the 7br.

 

[KMart]

Jon
It is listed in about the last 3 volumes of the Hornady books in the pistol sections.

 

[jonbearman]

It is listed in edition 5 of the sierra manual. Pm me and I will give you the starting loads.

 

[fdshuster]

Listed in the Hodgdon Reloading manual for both rifle & pistol loads.