Ran some RE 26 in the 26" factory 7 Rem Mag with 160 Accubonds today.
New Fed Brass, Rem 9 1/2 Mag Primers, .040 off the lands at 3.325" COAL.
RE26 VEL
64gr - 2820
65gr - 2873
66gr - 2912
67gr - 2955
67.5gr - 2974
I only shot two shots of each... and accuracy showed a lot of promise. I stopped at 67.5 because that's all I had loaded up, extraction was smooth and primers at 67.5 look no different from those at 64 grains.... I think there's still room to run. I'll load a few more up to 69 or so and see if/where we top out.
Your 67.5 gr, load went with my hunting bud with 160 NAB's to Africa for a very successful PG hunt. Mostly one shot kills, that load and rifle, a vintage SS 7RM Sendero, got lots of complements, in fact one hunter borrowed it for a 300+ yd. one shot kill.
In that gun this load shot half inch at a hundred, 3" at 400.
Thanks for saving me a bunch of time, working up a load...
DF
