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Anyone found out if this rifling twist is working or not for heavier end of 7mm08 projectiles in the savage/stevens models?

That twist would not work for normal factory velocities with heavier bullets. You would probably have to handload to find what would work. Maybe the new Hornady Super fast factory loads would work?
Sorry that I couldn't be more help.

You can exclude the 175`s with that twist. All others will be very happy. Go Savage for doing the right thing. That caliber, and the 223 Remington with 9" twist make me closer to a Savage fan all the time.

Tim knows.

A friend of mine has one and had a devil of a time with horrible accuracy until he figured out it would not stabilize 150's. Why the heck Savage did that nobody knows.

Thanks for the comments hopefully when it arrives it works OK with 140 grain projectiles.

Savage figured that most 7/08 shooters are using bullet weights up to about 139/140 grains, hence they went with the slower twist..

probably for the same reason a lot of rifle makers think a 1 in 12 is the best twist for a 308..

The 1:11.5 twist shoots great with the 140's.

Good Hunting,

Bob

Tim,

175 gr RN will stabilze in my Husqvarna 1:12 twist rifles.

160 gr Accubonds will not.

Ted

The 7x61 Sharpe& Hart rifle from Schulz and Larsen had a twelve inch twist and would, obviously, stabilize the 160 Norma bullets just fine. They would also handle 175 RN bullets but not spire points. When I rechambered these to 7mm Rem Mag, they would not stabilize 175 grain factory reliably but were fine with everything lighter.
I think Savage made a wrong turn. The thing is, a barrel with more twist than necessary will often shoot well. A rifle with a too slow twist for the bullet NEVER will. GD

Thanks again. FYI I'm an Aussie and will use it on hogs/pigs so the 120-140 grain projectiles will be fine. FYI the Stevens 200 with a 3-9 bushnell packaged scope costs $519 Aussie or about $450 USD.

A 7mm should be twisted at least 1:9 and a .30 should be at least 1:10.

Savage fouls up the 7mm-08 while Remington fouls up the .308HBs.