Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 7mm Rem Mag 150 Swift Scirocco recovered

I had good luck getting the 150-7mm to shoot in both the old and new styles, in a 7 Rem Mag and a 7mm Dakota. I took them each to Alberta a couple of times but the bullet was bad luck as I passed a lot of bucks on each trip and never saw anything I wanted to shoot on those trips.

I did use them on lots of coyotes up there; the old bullet was a bomb; the SS II version was tougher,left nickel sized holes in coyotes with lung shots and even shoulder shots did not tear them up badly out around 250-300 yards.

I think the new ones are pretty tough. I am not surprised Dennis did not see much damage on deer.

But it looks like they work pretty good on elk which provide more resistance to the bullet.

I'm the odd guy out here. I liked the S1.

Only used them for a year, they are way too sticky in the bore for my liking.

I'll be trying them in some other cartridges. They penetrate and expand as well an Accubond and seem to hold on to a larger front end.

Also, this was out of a 7mm Rem Mag started at 2950. It would have easily gotten 3200 from my Mashburn. I wouldn't expect anything but dead stuff left behind either way.

The faster the impact velocity the greater the frontal diameter will be. My BIL shot a very large Axis in the brisket at 40 yards with a 180 S2 @ 3200 fps impact velocity. The bullet penetrated to the second stomach and was stopped there. Like any bullet on any given shot they may not always exit & since this bullet often exhibits generous expansion you must make sure your shot is placed well.