Want to work up a predator hunting load for my kid’s 7mm-08

We want to save the hides so I’m thinking we need a tough bullet fired at a very slow velocity

Any suggestions?

Shoot Barnes Solids

120 TSX and stay off the big bones...

Mark D

Midway has the 140 gr Banded Barnes Solid .. Tho it may be a schoosh heavy it should fly pretty flat and buck the wind ............ If you have a long barrel you could probably get 2900 fps from them ,.... @ 2700 fps they would probably be more fur friendly and still shoot pretty flat ......

Been playing around with 100 grain Sierra HP's and 110 grain Speer TNT's in two 7x57's, probably not what you're looking for, but the accuracy they deliver is beyond good.

Don

In all seriousness I doubt that you'll be happy with the 7-08 if you want to sell hides.....It's just too much.....look for a .22 hornet or something along that line

Agree but the boy loves his 7mm-08, he loves shooting our 5.56 AR-15 with bull barrel at the range but he always grabs the Steyr ProHunter when we head to the field -- Kids

SLow down any of the cup/core 160gr to 2500fps & you should be ok unless you hit big bones. It's going to act almost like a solid.

do you prefer Sierra or Hornady

I popped a yote during deer season here with a 7mm-08 and 160 Sierra Gk not a very big hole at 180 yrds. But he sure died .
Slenk

Slenk,

1. where us here?
2. isn't 160 grn kind of big for deer, you must grow them big where ever here is?

I load 160 grn for son's 7mm-08 for moose & black bear

120 NBTs. They would be a great 7-08 bullet for coyote, deer, antelope. Lou

Abob
160s is what my rifle shoots the best. There are so many nimrods out here in hunting season it looks like a pumpkin patch all over the place.If you get a shot you had dang well better put the animal down hard or someone else will have it.
One bullet does it all mouse to moose.
Central Washington
Slenk

On coyote, a 100 Hornady HP is a very accurate bullet in a 7/08, shot one group at 1/2" and another at 5/8-3/4" at 200 yds, 3 shots both, in a factory 700v, chopped at 21" figuring with my load of Varget, I was running 3300 or so.

It likely will stay inside a yote, but a fox, it would more than likely cut in half....so for fur, heavy/slow may be best. You'll still have good trajectory at ranges you likely will hunt.

Light fast bullets out of the 7mm-08 leave a very large hole in coyotes.
Slenk