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I am surprised no one has suggested the 154gr Hornady IL. A plain jane bullet that works well. I'm not sure how hard it would be to find since I only handload but Hornady does make it... 7mm-Rem-Mag-154-gr-SP Ignore the price listed, they are always ridiculously high on Hornady's website. RH
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Or...you could just go on down to WallyWorld, buy a plain vanilla box of Remington 150 gr. spitzers, and go kill all the deer you want.
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140 gr. accubond is what I use. I never could figure the logic behind using 160 gr 7mm bullet on deer. Yea they just kill them and leave leaking holes on both sides of lung shots....Russ
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140 gr. accubond is what I use. I never could figure the logic behind using 160 gr 7mm bullet on deer. 160's work just fine on antelope, deer and elk.
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Hornady 139 SP, Sierra 140 flat base, Speer 145 hotcor, or in factory ammo 150 Fusion.
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140 grain ballistic tip will knock the snot out of deer in a 7rem mag. It is plenty tough.
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Barnes TTSX will work just fine.
If you want a bit softer, run a 156gr Norma Oryx at less than light speed.
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Lets see!! 7mm Rem Mag-- mid size thin skinned animal--bullet cooking around 3,000fps--I suppose you could use about anything thats out their. G
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I like 150 grain Nosler ballistic tips in my 7mm mag. for both whitetails and mulies. I use 65.0 grains of IMR4831 with a CCI BR2 primer. I have found this load to be rather accurate and deadly on deer out to 350 yards. I have not shot at anything farther than this, and so cannot give extreme range performance results. Also, while I use 65.0 grains of IMR4831, this is the maximum published load, so I would suggest starting below this and working up for your particular rifle. Of all my guns, this is the only one that performed best at a maximum load. All of my other guns (including pistols) perform best at a grain to a grain and a half back from maximum. Hope this helps.
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Very good, My first thought was to the TTSX bullet but I wasn't sure about expansion at closer ranges......Thanks HB The TTSX will probably expand more at closer range. These bullets love speed.
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140 NAB is a good one. 150NBT works as well.
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140 gr. accubond is what I use. I never could figure the logic behind using 160 gr 7mm bullet on deer. I've shot deer and hogs from stem to stern and broken off shoulders on exit with 160's out of a 7 Mag. If I see a 260 lb buck of a lifetime or a 500 lb Russian and have to send one up his pipe to get to the vitals, I know a 150 Part or 160 AB bullet will do it. IME, they don't usually produce super quick kills if put behind the shoulder, but expand reliably and will leave 2 holes from any angle on the animals mentioned. I usually go for the shoulders or the neck and they kill like lightening when put there. I also don't like subjecting bullets to their velocity design limits, as I make mostly 70 yd and under shots. Just my reasons for using them. JM
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Why screw around??
175 grain Hornady RN...
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I am thinking Barnes TTSX but maybe I need a little softer bullet for whitetails, I tried the Hornady SST last Fall with unsatisfactory results (too soft)My shooting ranges rarely exceed 100 yds but an occasional 200+ yard shot is possible, so I need a bullet that will perform well over a fairly wide range of velocities...Thanks HB 160 Accubond
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Barnes TTSX will work just fine.
If you want a bit softer, run a 156gr Norma Oryx at less than light speed. Wierdo.
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140 gr. accubond is what I use. I never could figure the logic behind using 160 gr 7mm bullet on deer. I've shot deer and hogs from stem to stern and broken off shoulders on exit with 160's out of a 7 Mag. If I see a 260 lb buck of a lifetime or a 500 lb Russian and have to send one up his pipe to get to the vitals, I know a 150 Part or 160 AB bullet will do it. IME, they don't usually produce super quick kills if put behind the shoulder, but expand reliably and will leave 2 holes from any angle on the animals mentioned. I usually go for the shoulders or the neck and they kill like lightening when put there. I also don't like subjecting bullets to their velocity design limits, as I make mostly 70 yd and under shots. Just my reasons for using them. JM I've had the same results out of the 140's so I don't see any reason to have a fast rifle and slow it down with a heavy bullet. If I go after elk I've got a couple of boxes of 160 accubonds sitting on the shelve, but I'm not worried about penetration from any angle out of the 140's on our small whitetails. To each his own.
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Why, because you've NEVER killed a [bleep] thing with any of the aforementioned bullets?
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Thanks for the great advice men, I think I might try some 160 grain Accubonds, this bullet sounds as if it will perform to my satisfaction. That way if I do see a buck big enough to shoot this Fall I can shoot through that SOB from end to end if need be ..................HB
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I often have this same dilemma (140's vs 160's) in the 7mags I have kinda concluded that damn near everything in 7mm works good,which is why I frequently get conflicted on which bullet to use.... I agree with both views....so over the years,I've used the 140's in Partition, AB(only once),and Bitterroot a good deal in the 7 mag;the 160 NPT as well. I agree with John Moses about the 160 frequently exiting;but this also happens with the 140 NPT....the 140 does seem to kill lighter game a bit quicker.Itdrops large northern whitetails and muleys with authority....it almost isn't fair If the rifle might see service on both deer and something larger in the same season I just load the 160's and forget it....if just for deer, I can see the logic in the 140's,especially for smaller southern deer,which I have never hunted. In the 7mm Mashburn, I will likely never load anything lighter than a 160,because I can start that bullet easily at 3200 fps+,which is plenty good enough for about anything.
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This one on the left doesn't know how good it really is!!One of the best 7mm C/C bullets I've ever used on deer!!!
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