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Thanks again for the comments - I hit him twice at a quartering to angle (I hid the entrance wounds under the rifle in the pic). The entrance wounds are about 1-1/2" apart and two exits about 6" apart. On the three different elk, all 5 Accubonds have passed through (255, 330, and 435 yards).

Thanks!

Hard to beat that!

Congrats, well done, on a side note, I took a large cow elk at 220 yards, with a 260 Remington, loaded with a 120 gr TTST and Hunter at the max load. Shot her in the chest looking towards me, she dropped immediately.

I shoot a 140 grain Partition from my Tikka 7mm-08 at a mv of 2870. What do you suppose your load clocks in at?

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I've chronographed over 100 rounds and at "normal temperatures" it averages 2800fps. Its been as low as 2750's and as high as 2830's in a temperature range from 20F to 105F. I don't push for more since it's been a repeatable a sub-MOA load and it matches the BDC reticle perfectly out to 500.

AggieDog - I get the itch now and then for a 260, good to hear yours is working so well.

I havent chronyd mine yet, but Im shooting a Rem 700 CDL SF with a 24 inch barrel, 1:9 twist. Im thinking it's doing 2900 fps anyway.

Awesome pic and Congrats! What a beauty!

I'm working up a 140 grain Accubond load now for my T3 Lite SS, 47.5 grains Big Game, WLRM primer, single digit ES & SD, averages 2843 ft/sec. Sub MOA.

I'll have to try your Varget load.


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This set up is working out well for me, and I've had good luck with 42gr Varget and 140gr Noslers in 2 different 7mm-08's now. It sounds like you've got a good thing going with your Big Game load but if you've got Varget to burn it's worth a try.

Here's a doe antelope and cow elk from 2012 and a muley from 2013 after my bull hunt, all with the Tikka 7mm08. The mushroomed bullet came from the buck and is the only bullet I've recovered out of 10 (weird, right?). The last pic is a bull my wife killed in 2005 with a Savage 7mm08 and 140gr Partitions at ~310 yards.

That bullet looks like it could be in an ad for Nosler. Accubond?

How about some details of the shot your wife made on that bull?



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140 Accubond in that pic above. Nothing out of the ordinary on her bull - broadside off a good rest using a Nikon BDC reticle. Federal factory Partition load - a high shoulder shot dropped him in his tracks.

Federal lists 2800 ft/sec as the MV for that load. About right, I'd say!


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Here's the target from 200 yards from my 140 Accubond load:



I'm ready.


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Nice. Any reason you're using magnum primers? Just curious. I've used them for a .22-250 in the past, but haven't tried in the 7mm08.

I was advised that Big Game (and Hunter, too) powder often benefitted from a magnum primer.


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Great thread. Working with the 140 and 7x57 right now. Giving me a ton of confidence in the combo! Way to go and great elk!

My dad (77 years old) killed this bull two weeks ago at 225 yards, one shot right above the heart, 140 Accubond from his stainless T3 in 7mm-08.





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Thats about as good a pic I've seen in regards to color setting an such, all done in the field. Great bull and thanks for including us.

It is tough to get a good bull picture, particularly if you are by yourself. The last one I shot buried several tines in the dirt, and I could not even move the head by myself.



About the best I could do is choose an angle and lay my gun across it.



Yours is a great bull, and I am not at all surprised that the 7-08, combined with good placement of an adequate bullet, was up to the task.