Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting 7mm Remington Magnum is rockin on !

Have a great load with a 160gr accubond at @ 3,000 fps.
0.020 off rifling on the left, tightened right up at 0.030 on the right.

Did a real good scrubbing,after last range tr ip, and went shooting to verify clicks to 900 yards today.
1st round hit center black at 100, 2nd shot, same.
Went to banging steel, and wind was fickled. At the bench, had a se, but bullets at 800 were going right ??
Returned back to zero, and fired a 3rd on paper.
Zing!!!
It ain't me or the gun. Wind was blowing from west/sw, up on the hill.
I'm real happy with how this thing shoots.

Coues deer, is gonna be in big trouble !!

Tikka?

Nice!!

72 grains of MagPro gets me right at 3k. What's your load?




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Bullets hitting right at 800? Could be canted rifle, spin drift or the wind. Do you have a scope level? Verified crosshairs are level?

Yes, I have a level on it.
We learned a valuable lesson on wind direction.
I'm running a stainless fluted barrel, I bought off Tanner, and fitted it to my old 8mm Rem Mag/300 RUM action.
When it screwed tight, the flutes were off, and it had to be reamed again.
Took a bit off the shoulder to line up the writing and flutes, and cut a new chamber and throat.
I'm running 1 grain over max, of rldr 22. 66.0 grains.

My action was opened up, and I have a wyatts mag box in it. Scope base screws are now 8-40's, and bolt has been fluted.
Oh, and a mcswirly.

How did you setup your level? Did you verify it was level with your crosshairs? A tall target test will help you a lot.
BTW nice rifle!!!

Could be the loopy is tracking off course...

Not tracking off, was wind.
Wind was shifting bad.
I'll have fellow member, huntr, chime in.
We were shooting together.

We both were amazed at the different wind directions, and the differences in gusts.
One shot we would correct for that hit, then would hit where aimed, because wind slowed.
Very frustrating morning.

Wind is tricky to judge especially if shooting in canyons or over them. At least it was good practice for you both.

Been doing this for some time.
700 yards, 338 Rum.

257 roberts. 550 yards.

Etc.....
Thanks for your tips, and thoughts.
I'm no expert or know it all.
Using a new to me cartridge, I'm going to ask questions.

splatter, great stuff.. I thought all you did was shoot ducks!! Hey was I wrong.. Anyway, give the lab a pet for me and show us some more rifle stuff..

Good shoooting with the 160 AB.... That being said Id look at other offerings when poking game. I ran that bullet one year....It [bleep] sucks IMHO.

WyoCoyoteHunter,
How bout a pic with wife and lab, myself, an Oryx, and a custom 280AI !!

Coyote calling riffle !

300 wsm on overwatch.

Easy 402 yard shot from overwatch pic.

Results of putting together a 7-08 in a gunsmithing class, at the local college.
Kend did the duracoating!


I've been around a bit...
Roe deer from Germany, Fallow deer from a chatue in Belgium, antelope buck from Montana.


There ya go. Some more rifle kills.

Nice shootin' splatter. A 7RemMagnificent and 160AB combo is very hard to beat.

splatter, very nice thanks, and lots of neat rifles..

You should notice spin drift at all times when shooting long range. If you have a 8 twist, you'll get more drift than with a 9 twist. I have a target rifle which is a 223 with 6.5 twist barrel for shooting 90 grain vlds. On the first string in the morning when it's dead calm I'm 6" right with my 2840fps load and 3.5" right with the milder 2650 load at 600 yards.

JG is way too modest.

Here's what a 7RM and 160 NAB's can do.

Of course, throw in a fair to middling trigger man...

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8855404/1

DF

I chimed in on that thread.
We were to have lunch one day when I was in his neck of the woods, but business obligations prevented that.
Or was it 2 times ?

That's funny you say that. I've never seen anything but awesome out of the 160 AB. From 250 to 500 it puts the pain on elk.