RL25 STW loads
 

Is anyone getting 3300fps with 160gr bullets with the 7mmSTW and RL25?

I am shooting 77gr H1000 barely kicking over 3050fps. But notice alliant posts RL25 loads over 3300fps! I believe 80gr. Thats kinda hard to believe when Hodgdon posts Retumbo loads 80gr not near that. Figured I would ask before I waste my time and powder.

RE: RL25 STW loads
 

I built a 7 STW for a local rancher a couple years ago - used a Shilen Stainless air-guaged 27.5" barrel. He gotup to about3500 fps before it started showing pressure with the 160 grain Sierra/RL 25. His gun does seem extraordinarily fast though - was getting 3600 with factory Remington 140 grain loads.

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Thanks Roskoe. Guess no one else has chrono'd.

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So ridge, how did it do? Any good velocities?

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Ridgerunner:

Thoes charges seem heavy; is WC872 really dense? Can you find out the Listed Bulk Density? Are you using a drop tube? How is your accuracy? Thanks.

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Ridgerunner:

WC872 sounds very promising. Please keep me informed on accuracy.

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Wow, ridge, thats alot of powder. I get little over 3050fps with 80gr of H1000. Hey I go thru morgantown and down to charleston when going to see my family about 6 times a year. Where is Mathias compared to that? See if you wouldn't mind selling me a pound of your ball powder before I order a bunch.

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Oops, nevermind, your in Grant County. Far away. I used to hunt in Pendleton at a friends hunting camp in GW Forest a long time ago near Petersburg.

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Well, I guess I can officially call MD my home. I have pretty well sold off everything in Ky recently. I don't know why it was so hard for me to say that. Guess I will always hold Ky close to my heart.But since I have owned a house here since 1999 I guess its my home.

I live in Westminster, close to Gettysburg.

I used to make the grant county trip every year, but it got crowded. I mean real crowded.