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43.0 grains of IMR4064 or RL-15 WLR Primer. Rem. cases 140 grain Sierra SPBT
 
Posts: 1132 | Location: SouthCarolina | Registered: 07 July 2004Reply With Quote
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Sounds like a great load, what kind of speed and accuracy are you getting?
 
Posts: 5603 | Location: Eastern plains of Colorado | Registered: 31 October 2005Reply With Quote
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49 grs W760, 145 Speer SBT, Win primer, RP case. Very accurate in my rifle. Vel is 2898 ft/sec from a 24" barrel.


"300 Win mag loaded with a 250 gr Barnes made a good deer load". Elmer Keith
 
Posts: 172 | Location: Canada | Registered: 06 August 2003Reply With Quote
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I have a couple 7-08s and they are not fussy......but one is a Tikka T3 and it really likes Win cases, WLR primers 44 grs of IMR 4320 under a 140 gr sierra.
 
Posts: 2432 | Location: manitoba canada | Registered: 01 March 2001Reply With Quote
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Sounds like a great load, what kind of speed and accuracy are you getting?


im getting .75-1.00" group at 100 meters. just a tick over 2900. remington 700 S.S. 24 in. barrel..
 
Posts: 1132 | Location: SouthCarolina | Registered: 07 July 2004Reply With Quote
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My rifle is a Kimber Montana 7mm08

My good loads are

Barnes 120gr TSX & 46gr Varget (AR2208) for 3010 fps
Barnes 140gr TSX & 50gr H4350 (AR2209) for 2883 fps
Nosler 140gr AB & 50gr H4350 (AR2209) for 2840 fps
Rem 140gr PSPCL & 50gr H4350 (AR2209) for 2793 fps
Rem 150gr PSPCL & 43gr Varget (AR2208) for 2810 fps
Nosler 160gr AB & 48gr Re19 for 2650 fps

I also got exceptional accuracy with 139 gr Hornady out to 400 meters on the range. I just need to transfer my reloading logs on to the laptop. I am sure it was Varget and the load was not hot & the velocity was below 2800 fps.

PM me for a spreadsheet of my loads. I also tried IMR3031, VVN160 & N150.

My standard loads are now Varget or H4350 (AR2208 or AR2209)

Very easy round to reload. Good accuracy in most loads - best around 0.75 inch. Many around the 1 to 1.25 inch marks. Even got a couple of 3 inch group at 300 meters!

Great deer cartridge and the rifle is a real joy to carry in steep hill and dense bush country here in NZ.


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Posts: 11005 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 02 July 2008Reply With Quote
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the savage likes AA4064 40.7gr serria 140 BTSP

the remmington R25 likes 46.9 gr Big Game with nosler 140 set to 2.80 COL
 
Posts: 3 | Location: michigan | Registered: 26 December 2018Reply With Quote
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7-08

139gr hornady fn(discontinued) with 42.0gr of imr4320

i have about 200+/- left.


“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
― Nikola Tesla
 
Posts: 99 | Location: United States windber, pa | Registered: 16 September 2013Reply With Quote
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My favorite 7mm-08 load is from Ken Waters. 43.0 grains of WW-748 under a 139 grain Hornady spire point. I've been shooting that load in half a dozen 7mm-08s since 1991.
 
Posts: 10 | Location: New Jerey | Registered: 05 October 2019Reply With Quote
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I just got off the phone with a buddy of mine who told me his son is in Colorado after Elk + he starts his hunt tomorrow morning using his 7mm-08. Not sure what his load is but he was using a 140 G. Sierra G.K. using H 4895 powder charge unknown. I wish the young man luck.


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Posts: 17357 | Location: Austin, Texas | Registered: 11 March 2013Reply With Quote
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Be interesting to know how that bullet worked on elk??
Ray


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Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
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rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
 
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