Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting R26 - 7mm RM - 175gr ELDx

Anyone have any experience with the combo listed?

I'm wanting to start loading soon and am looking for a starting point. I emailed Alliant but haven't heard back yet.

I wanted to try this combo as soon as I heard about this bullet. It just seems like the perfect long range bullet for the caliber.

Seems like you could work up using RL25 data.

Reloader 25 and 26 are quite different and alliant specifically states not to use 25 data for 26. Go to noslers website and go to their forums and ask for a quickload workup with your cartridge and bullet/powder combo. I have worked up loads this way with re26 in my 220 swift with minimal hassle and great results. It will also give you a velocity to work towards that will give you max pressure so you know where you are at when pushing into new territory. Good luck!

Aldo I tried emailing alliant with a similar question this spring, and never got a response. You probably won't hear back from them. Great since they have come out with new powders and have only given very limited data since.

Thanks for the info. I decided to just do a ladder test with the combo starting at 60 grains. This will allow me to watch velocity on my magneto and look for pressure. Using .5 gr increments up to 71. I'll post results.

And alliant did answer, saying they have no info for me.

You had kinda better luck than me with alliant than lol.
Keep an eye out for pressure on your ladder test, and good luck. Be sure to let us know your results, I have 2 pounds or so of re26 and my next build is going to be a 7mm RM shooting heavy bergers. I am very curious to see your results.

This is for the Hornady 175 so go low and work up slow. Not at home presently so no access to my Q/L


Cartridge : 7 mm Rem. Mag.(SAAMI)
Bullet : .284, 175, Hornady SP 2850
Useable Case Capaci: 73.508 grain H2O = 4.773 cm³
Cartridge O.A.L. L6: 3.290 inch = 83.57 mm
Barrel Length : 24.0 inch = 609.6 mm
Powder : Alliant Reloder-26

Predicted data by increasing and decreasing the given charge,
incremented in steps of 2.0% of nominal charge.
CAUTION: Figures exceed maximum and minimum recommended loads !

Step Fill. Charge Vel. Energy Pmax Pmuz Prop.Burnt B_Time
% % Grains fps ft.lbs psi psi % ms

-20.0 72 52.80 2304 2062 28673 11181 96.8 1.737
-18.0 74 54.12 2363 2169 30668 11481 97.8 1.694
-16.0 76 55.44 2421 2278 32811 11757 98.5 1.653
-14.0 78 56.76 2480 2389 35111 12008 99.1 1.613
-12.0 80 58.08 2538 2503 37584 12230 99.6 1.569
-10.0 82 59.40 2595 2617 40240 12423 99.9 1.519
-08.0 83 60.72 2652 2734 43062 12585 100.0 1.472
-06.0 85 62.04 2709 2851 46053 12723 100.0 1.426
-04.0 87 63.36 2765 2970 49239 12858 100.0 1.382
-02.0 89 64.68 2820 3089 52636 12989 100.0 1.340
+00.0 91 66.00 2874 3210 56259 13116 100.0 1.300
+02.0 92 67.32 2928 3332 60124 13240 100.0 1.261 ! Near Maximum !
+04.0 94 68.64 2982 3455 64251 13360 100.0 1.224 ! Near Maximum !
+06.0 96 69.96 3035 3580 68661 13476 100.0 1.187 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!
+08.0 98 71.28 3088 3706 73376 13588 100.0 1.153 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!
+10.0 100 72.60 3141 3834 78422 13695 100.0 1.119 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!

Results caused by ± 10% powder lot-to-lot burning rate variation using nominal charge
Data for burning rate increased by 10% relative to nominal value:
+Ba 91 66.00 2989 3472 69506 12637 100.0 1.192 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!
Data for burning rate decreased by 10% relative to nominal value:
-Ba 91 66.00 2697 2827 43452 13639 99.0 1.447
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Also QLs actual Burn Rate for 26 is off enough I had to start much lower in order to not be at max right outta the gate.

Thanks for the information.

I made a range trip with loaded Ammo trying to look at pressure and speed.

I loaded one round with R26 starting at 61.0gr with the 175eldx

Here are the results:
Charge. Speed
61.0gr. 2842fps
61.5gr. 2862
62.0gr. 2870
62.5gr. 2892
63.0gr. 2908
63.5gr. 2941
64.0gr. 2957
64.5gr. 3001
65.0gr. 3027
65.5gr. 3035 start to feel stiff bolt
66.0gr. 3039 bullet moved left 1", bolt sticky, primer still rounded

I stopped at 66 even though I had more rounds loaded. Temperature was around 92*, elevation 1100.

Rifle is a R700 with a Benchmark 1-9 twist barrel out to 26". Chronograph was a Magneto Speed V3.

I loaded up test loads from 63.8 - 65.0gr because all those rounds went through the same hole at 100 yards. Will report back with final load.

175 at 3,000 fps would be great.




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How's this powder supposed to be as far as temp sensitivity? I'm going to start developing loads for a 7mm Mashburn I'm building and I don't like powders that are temp sensitive.

I'm using R26 in my 243 with 105 amax's at 3221fps. I developed the load last winter and didn't see any change this summer. Much better than R17

That is smoking for a .243! 3000 for a 175 is great velocity and should be dynamite for long range hunting.