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01 March 2003, 06:47
SHORTMAG
7mm STW
Ijust bought a 7mm STW a couple of weeks a go.I'm getting ready to work up some loads. What is a good load for White tail size game.
01 March 2003, 11:01
Sask_Hunter
i would go with a 160gr. sierra bt or the 160gr. nosler under on of the many slow powders like H-1000 or IMR 7828. but the 120 barnes might be fun to play with too [Big Grin]
01 March 2003, 14:24
Dave Jenkins
My neighbor has one in a Savage....we were going to start handloading for it but we havent found a Factroy load that shoots over 1.5 MOA most are under 1. It couldnt believe it when he told me so I had to shoot it myself. I'm going to do my best to buy that rifle off of him. If it were mine I would load 140 or 130 Barnes XBTs for deer or the T-shocks when they start shipping.But unlike Sask [Wink] im thinkin I would put the bullet OVER the powder. let us know what you come up with
BTW Nosler # 5 suggests H4831 and Rl-19 for 140 and 150 grainers
01 March 2003, 14:26
3006ultra
I use 82.3 gns and a 140 sierra b.t.and 80.3 with a 160 gn sierra of H1000 Don't forget and reduce thease loads and work up
01 March 2003, 15:02
SHORTMAG
My gun a Remington 700 sondero if that help you all out any.
Thanks for the advise.
02 March 2003, 09:17
lofter
http://www.loadyourown.com/loaddata/detailcaliber.asp?id=716
02 March 2003, 10:27
SHORTMAG
I got my die in the mail and the seating die was missing so back to Natchez thay go. Just my luck that slowed down my shooting for a week or two.

Thanks for all the info.
30 April 2003, 16:30
EricR
82.5 grns. R.L. 22, 120 grn. Nosler B.T. 3600f.p.s. Mine is also the Sendero S.F. That's maximum load for me. Bolt's kinda hard to open!
30 April 2003, 17:36
muleshoe
I like to work up a load for one bullet type in my rifles, then I shoot that load for everything. The bullets of choice for my STW are 160gr Partitions. On top of a fair sized pile of RL22, it'll mosey along at about 3275fps and stay inside of 3/4".
29 May 2003, 14:17
<daveosok>
I have a 7mm stw. 74.5 grains of H1000 pushing 180 gr bergers@3100 fps. Excellent accuracy, course the fps could probably be linked to the 34 in barrel.
31 May 2003, 11:32
hvyw8t
79 grains of r22 and 140 grain partition works very well out of my custom sako.
01 June 2003, 04:34
snowman
160 gr speer bt on top of 82 grs of Retumbo &sparked by a CCI 250.