No RN yet but she is threatening. She is a Paramedic though so not far off! <grin> steak and baked tater was good that night as well.
The 7mm Sherman Short is one of the creations of a guy on longrangehunting.com. Basically he wanted to run the long vld type bullets at standard saum/wsm speeds at mag length from a standard wsm action without too much protrusion into the powder space.
You basically take either 7mm or 300 saum brass, set the shoulder back, trim to 1.95, neck turn and fireform. Case gets the taper blown out, 40* shoulder, and longer neck ala ackley. Case capacity ends up at 72 grs of water but most loads are running 60ish grains of a slowish powder like R26. Lots of Saum brass on the market for around $1.50 ea and the designer sells fully prepped Norma brass at $2.50 ea.
Guys are pushing 168's over 3200 and 180 at 3000 from 26" barrels. Seems most guys not leaning on them are getting 10-12 loads out of each case, throats are lasting obscenely long and barrel life's over 2500rds.
I've found a few lightly used custom rifles out there at good price and figure if it's a dog turd it's a barrel away from saum or wsm.
