For a 15" Encore 140gr. and 150gr. bullets Thanks!

you'd better NOT be using a 7mm-08 in the G2 Contender!!!! So, I won't give you any loads I use in my Encore. How did you end up with a 7-08 for a Contender anyhow????

MY MISTAKE!!!! I'm posting this for a friend it is in fact a Encore.I thought all the pistols was contenders and the rifles Encores Oh well.

Damned I feel stupid



Anyway its a 15" Stainless Encore in 7mm08 he needs loads for.I'll go back and edit the mistake!

Here is a link to Hodgdon Powder developed in a 15" bll.

http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/7mm08rem.php

Thanks I email him this site I hope he chimes in and talks for himself.
Ron Miller if you read this register and talk to these folks!

h4895 works well with 120gr noslers, but i havn't worked up a 140gr load yet. i'd try h4895 and varget though.

Thanks Wolfsangle for getting started for me!

I'm planning on using either 140 gr. Accubonds or 150 Scirocco's in this Encore Pistol. Plus I got a couple of hundred of em.

I like the performance I get from both of these bullets in my 7mm Rem. Mag. rifle.

Has anyone tried these bullets in their pistol's?

Ron,
With a 7-08 I doubt if you need a Accubond or a Scirroco type of bullet, unless you are hunting elk class game at shorter ranges. For deer sized game the 120 & 140 NBT's have done a great job for myself and my hunting buddy over the years in both 7mm-08 and 284 Win with barrels from 14-15.75 inches. Sierra's Game King line are also good choice as they have a better/wider (in my opinion) velocity range and still get good bullet performance. I find myself moving to Sierra more in the last several years but at the same time Nosler has always been good to me in both performance and accuracy.

Ernie

I know your primary interest is 140 and 150 grain bullets, but have you tried the Hornady 120 grain SSPB/V-Max. Just so I am clear on this suggestion. The 120 Hornady SSPB and the 120 Hornady V-Max are the same bullet. At the beginning of 2004 I saw that the 120 SSPB was absent from their catalog. After speaking with Hornady's head technician he had two 120 V-max's split vetically and sent them to me. They still had the interlock ring. They expand wonderfully out of pistols if loaded at 2800 fps or less and act like a V-max on critters when loaded in rifles and shot at high velocities.

Oh, as for powders try XMR 4064 by Accurate Arms. Good powder for the 7-08 Rem. www.accuratearms.com

Thanks to you who have replied, but I got to tell ya I�m a little surprised about the few replies this topic has gotten. I�ve been shooting this new pistol a bit now and I got to tell ya. It�s a shooting SOB. With this 15� barrel, open sights and shooting off sand bags I�m nailing one of those 5 �� splatter targets a 200 yards.

With a 100 lookers now are more people just buying ammo off the shelf or is the 7mm08 pistol just so rare that there are just not a lot of 7mm08 pistol owners out there?