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I have a Cz in 6.5x55 and my son shoots a 7mm-08 Mauser sporter. For most applications we would both probably use bullets in the 100-140 gr. range and eventually 160 gr. I would like to keep my powder stores simple i.e. one powder for both cartridges. I am hoping to hear which powder is your favorite for the bullet weights in each. If you load for both do you use the same powder? Thanks, Eric NRA Benefactor TSRA Life DRSS Brno ZP-149 45-120 NE | ||
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I recently picked up a 6.5 Sweed that shoots well with RL-22 with 140 grain bullets. My 7mm-08 is currently shooting RL-15 with 140 grain Partitions, but I might be switching bullets soon. Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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Any of the 4350s should be just fine. roger Old age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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In the 6.5X55 i had a Sako & a Winchester mod 70. Both rifles shot 139 gr bullets as well as 125 gr nosler partitions. Best powders were H4350 (AR 2209) & VV N160. I found Re22 too slow but re19 was as good as H4350. In the 7mm08 my Kimber shoots 140 / 150 gr bullets very well with Varget (AR2208). H4350 & N160 are almost as good. I did not get great results with Re15. I find Varget a great versatile powder for 222 Rem, 7mm08, 308 Win, 358 Win, 9.3X62 etc. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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This! I use IMR4350 in both my 6.5x55 and 7-08 and R19 in the 7-08 and 260rem which is a 6.5 Swede in cognito. Any powder in this burn range to a little faster would work well IMO ------------------------------------ The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray "Why shouldn`t truth be stranger then fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense." (Samual Clemens) "Saepe errans, numquam dubitans --Frequently in error, never in doubt". | |||
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I don't load for the 7mm-08 but in loading for the 6.5x55 anything I cannot do in that cartridge with either RL-19 or IMR-4350 simply isn't worth doing. If I provoke you into thinking then I've done my good deed for the day! Those who manage to provoke themselves into other activities have only themselves to blame. *We Band of 45-70er's* 35 year Life Member of the NRA NRA Life Member since 1984 | |||
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I've had good results in the sweed with 130gr Nosler accubonds and H4831. I've never loaded for the 7mm-08, but it appears it likes a little faster powder, so if I was going to try only one for both it would be either W760, or 4350...which ever one I had on the shelf. You also mentioned light bullets in the 100gr range. For the light stuff I'd consider 4895. | |||
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A 120 BT over 45g of Varget does very well in my 7-08. | |||
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I use N560 in my Swede. | |||
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Is that kosher to feed a Finnish powder to a Swedish cartridge? NRA Benefactor TSRA Life DRSS Brno ZP-149 45-120 NE | |||
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One daughter has a 7x57 and the other daughter has a 7-08. Like you, I was hoping for one powder/one bullet for both rifles but no luck there. The 7-08 shoots hornady 139gr best with H335 and the 7x57 shoots 145gr speer with H 4350. Good luck to you and your son. | |||
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bartsche one of us Posted 27 October 2012 23:17 Any of the 4350s should be just fine. roger for both,thats what i would say too | |||
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Depending on the bullet I use the following on my 7mm-08 H-414 IMR 4007 SSC Reloader 19 "though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." ---Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Its allowed if the bullet are Finnish! | |||
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Nice part of those two cartridges, is they are close in capacity and can use a lot of the same powders. Anything in the range of H414,the 4350's etc, will work in either one with a 140gr. I don't have any of the data I had for my 6.5x55 anymore, I know I used 760 in it, and that is what I use in my 7-08. Krieghoff Classic 30R Blaser Stevens 044-1/2 218 Bee Ruger #1A 7-08 Rem 700 7-08 Tikka t3x lite 6.5 creedmo Tikka TAC A1 6.5 creedmo Win 1885 300H&H. 223Rem Merkel K1 7 Rem mag CCFR | |||
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+ 1 on RL 19 in the 7mm-08 with any 120 of 140 bullet. | |||
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h335, varget, win748 opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I only have a few more factory loads left so I guess I had better get off the fence. I haven't used Varget yet and have always liked 4350. I'll have to dig out the books once I get back home NRA Benefactor TSRA Life DRSS Brno ZP-149 45-120 NE | |||
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