7mag load help

mdyer101 · 05-06-2010, 06:25 AM

I just bought a 7 mag barrel for my encore. I am just getting back into reloading after several years off. Anhy suggestion on a good load?
Thanks

Big Z · 05-06-2010, 08:02 AM

Application?

mdyer101 · 05-06-2010, 08:05 AM

Antelope hunting this fall and then whitetails after that

Big Z · 05-06-2010, 12:31 PM

Lopers and deer don't need much killing. Hard to go wrong, I'd get bullets 120-162 gr, load em over some rl22 and stuff is gonna die.

Pygmy · 05-06-2010, 03:54 PM

Any 7mm RM that I have loaded for shot well with 65.0 of H4831 and any 160 grain bullet..If I had to name one I'd say Speer, but I've had good results with Noslers and others..

mdyer · 05-06-2010, 05:21 PM

Thanks for the info I would really like to shoot 140-150 gr noslers I think. How about reloader 22?

zrexpilot · 05-07-2010, 04:55 AM

In my friends savage, I ended up with a max charge of rl 22 behind a 120 gr nosler BT and it does 5 under an inch, at 3500 fps.
Hes happy.

pnut · 05-09-2010, 06:28 AM

My Remmy 700 7Mag likes 64gr H4831SC using a 160gr Nosler Accubond bullet

gonewest · 05-23-2010, 05:49 PM

Go to the Nosler site they have lists for each caliber and grain bullet that perfomed the best. They had a load I remember that was a 140 gr nosler that tested best of the bunch traveling at 3300 or 3400. They say it was very accurate. Check it out.

Ridge Runner · 05-23-2010, 06:46 PM

RE22 sux, speeds good, accuracys ok, lot to lot varience is attrocious, try H4831, H1000 with the 160's and up, or IMR 7828
RR