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7 X 65R
03 January 2013, 07:13
Rusty7 X 65R
Anyone have a favorite recipe? I have a Valmet with 7 X 65R barrels and I'm looking for a place to start. I've tried some factory 173 grain bullets but they aren't even close to regulating.
Rusty
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03 January 2013, 12:54
GerryRusty,
My default position for the 7x65R in BBF's, Drillings and DR's has always been the Hornady 154 gr. R.N.'s despite the abundance here of local Teutonic bullet fodder which tend to the really spendy side anyway. I also got lucky once with a box of Speer 160 grain Spitzers but as you now each rifle is a law unto itself.
Also most of the Euro ammo for this cartridge tend to the heavier 7mm weights despite the high velocity claims for the odd-ball 120-130-ish weight bullets. I'd also venture a guess that if/when the rifle was factory shot it was with a 160+ grain bullet.
I also prefer the Horndays for the cannelure for which I use a Lee Factory Crimp Die (yes, a 280 Remington LFCD can easily be adjusted).
154 gr. Hornady, 53.0 grs H-4350, (O.A.L - crimped into the cannelure)
54.0 grs H-4831sc (I prefer this load)
Good shooting.
Cheers,
Number 10
04 January 2013, 05:56
Vol717Valmet 412s can be adjusted. Zero the sights to the top barrel and adjust the bottom barrel to coincide. I have 15 boxes of S&B 7X65 and I'm saving brass but at this rate I'll never have to reload. My gun is a 412 with BBF barrels 12GA and 7X65R.
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04 January 2013, 07:30
jeffeossoquote:
Originally posted by Gerry:
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I also prefer the Horndays for the cannelure for which I use a Lee Factory Crimp Die (yes, a 280 Remington LFCD can easily be adjusted).
Good shooting.
Nice tip
04 January 2013, 17:49
Rustythank you for your input. I'll try some S & B. the Privi I tried does not come close to being together with the factory regulation.
Gerry-
I will try some 154s.
Again, thank you!
Rusty
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DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
05 January 2013, 18:40
Heym SR20As a first try, have a look at the RwS 173gn - seems to be the standard for this calibre. With mine it shoots are all the different bullets of this weight close enough that no sight change is required. Hornady have a reasonable number of loads in their 8 th edition. My go to load is a139 gn soft point bullet over 51.5gn of imr4831. Nice a accurate and low recoil and does the job on Roe deer.