Mine likes H4895 with 140's. I don't know if it's the cleanest burning or not. 4350 can be hard (time consuming) to measure due to the length of the grains.
In my 7-08, IMR4350 won't give top velocity until I load bullets in the 150-160 gr weight.
Faster powders like the aforementioned 4895 are better for the bullets you've chosen.
I'm quite fond of Speer's 130 gr boattail bullet. With IMR4320 and Re-15, I can safely approach 3000 fps with excellent accuracy. Both powders have short stick granules and meter well through my measure. This recipe is sudden death on deer and hogs here in Texas.
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No 7-08's in house, but several 7x57's that are as close to the 7-08 as U can get. H-414, Federal 210 Primers, and 140 grain Nosler Partitions. Heap Big Deer Medicine...
Rammag, I just tried a RL17 load in my 25/06 yesterday. It shot decently but not as well as the IMR4831 load that I have been using for about 10yrs. GOOD LUCK and GOOD SHOOTING!!!
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I use H-4350 and 150/160 Nosler Partitions. I shoot the 150's with 46.4 grs and the 160's with 45.7 grs. CCI 200 primers. Both of these loads worked well in South Africa this March.
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My best load was H4350 47.5 gr under a Barnes 140gr TSX. 2840 fps, extremely accurate. Is it the cleanest? I'm not sure, but it seems plenty clean to me!
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