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I've taken it up to 84grs with no pressure signs and accuracy remained good. The fps gained was marginal so I stayed with the 82.5 load.

I was thinking of getting a 7STW and a gunsmith told me that they can be finicky to reload and get acurate. What is the difference betweent he STW and the ultra mag?

Big Dog,

The RUM is as large as the belt on the STW. It holds about 20% more powder. A fried of mine reamed his rifle with an STW and worked up loads for a 127 grain bullet. He rechamberd it to the RUM and gained about 150 per second. They will both work through and with a magnum action.

i shoot a rum, sendero,love the gun,but wish iwould have bought the stw..think its going to be around alot longer.
look at factory loads and everyone is loading for stw,rem is the only onefor the rum.i handload mine and the 160 ab seems to really shine in this gun.but the stw will do almost as good yet with less powder...

Sounds to me like your gunsmith may not be tooled for a 7STW. I hear that alot. Why would it matter to your 'smith what YOU would want?

ST

Wow a 120 BT at 3600 should hit like a handgrenade!! I bet thats a super varmint round and leaves nothing much but mist.

I've killed coyotes, blacktail, mulies and black bear with that load. I suppose it would kill a prairie dog.......grin

I LIKE it..........bolt of freaking lightning. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Here's my limited but maybe slightly interesting experience with the 7mm STW. Up until last summer I'd only read about the cartridge in reloading manuals. It sounded pretty cool but don't they all? Then, a buddy of mine who has looong range hunting aspirations bought a used SS Rem 700 with a laminated stock that someone had (very poorly we came to find out) put on a 7mm STW heavy fluted barrel. It would barely put 5 shots in 4" @ 100 yds with factory ammo! He brought it to me to diagnose (I have aspirations of becoming a gunsmith) and I found that the barrel was bound tight the entire length of the forend. So I figured that would be a pretty darn good place to start. The fellow that had hogged the stock out to accept the heavy barrel didn't bother to (or didn't know how to?) properly inlet the stock. I had to remove 3/8" or more of material before the barrel was free floated. At that point I did a full action bed with pillars and a pad of bedding to support the portion of the barrel between the recoil lug and where the taper starts. After all that work I was so excited to see what it would do I took the family out to Copper City and shot several groups in -10 temps with a chilly variable cross wind. My best group (wind died down just long enough to squeeze 3 off) was a tad under 5/8" @ 100 yds! I was jumping up and down to say the least. So now (even though my sample size is only 1) I'm a pretty big fan of 7mm STW, heavy barrels, Rem 700 actions, pillar bedding, etc.

wait till' you neck it down to 25 cal. someone will have to drive you home <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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