Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Hornie 7mm 180 ELD might be worth playing with...

FINALLY got my hands on some of these and tested them out today for the first time. Took some measurements with this lot of bullets, and found the bullet OAL to be 1.541" with a BTO length of 0.659".Loaded up some cases with various charges of 7828ssc to find pressure, seated bullets to kiss lands, and let her rip. The last charge weight ended up being 2979 fps, which QL estimates to be 62.5k psi- a little under SAAMI max. I think I'm onto something...












And the rifle