Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 7mm-08 Loads

Varget for 120s and H4350 for everything heavier.

For shots beyond 300 yards. I like the 162s for really long range stuff in my 7-08.

This thread made me pull out some 7/08 sized brass.. and try some AR Comp which I have a bunch of..

i sorta use mostly 140 grain bullets and down when I play with the 7/08...

With 139 grain Hornady SPs, I was pretty impressed with the small tight 3 shot groups it gave...

test group of only 10 rounds, so take that with how many grains of salt ya want...

two of the three groups were a clover leaf at 100 yds...

without looking up the MV from the load data I referred to, I do recall it was more than enough to do the job
with that weight of bullet... 2800 to 2900 fps MV out of a 22 inch barrel, Howa Action...

140 TTSX and varget. Shoots .5” regularly. Away from home now and don’t remember the charge but it kills coyotes to zebras just fine.

I have said this before, and I'll say it again - I have been using the Ken Waters load, 43.0 grains WW-748 with a 139 Hornady flat base bullet since 1991. I have substituted other bullets of 140 grains with good results. It has been accurate in six or seven 7mm-08 rifles I have owned.

One of the best loads of all time.

The Hornady 139 grain soft points and H4350 was the first load I tried in my 7/08. Shot great, my intention was one load, one rifle. I should have stopped there, it would have served me well. But, you know you find bullets on clearance, good prices on blems and you end up a variety of 9 different bullets from 115 grain HPs to 162 Amax.

So RL16 is shooting great, and I can only get varget to be "decent" with a 139btsp.

With the 120bt, I'm having a hard time getting RS big game to shoot well (I know, it's great for most people). I need to play with it more.

I threw a few loads of staball6.5 under the 120 (basically on a whim) and it shoot surprisingly well.

RL16 is also showing promise with the 154sst.

The 150 gr NBT bullets shoot a little better than the 140's in my rifle.

Big Game is a great powder in the 7-08 not doubt, but it's not the only one (by far actually) that produces very accurate loads. I've got extremely accurate loads and good velocities with RL15, RL16, IMR4350, Varget, and IMR 4451 in both 120's and 140 gr bullets.

Yes it is!




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But where to buy said powder(s)? Quite a shortage

Has anyone tried IMR4166? Supposed to be IMR answer to varget

Have a TC Venture and plenty 140nab and H4350. Whats everyone running powder wise for that one?

48grs in my Tikka

Anyone else loading Hammer Hunters? About to do some final tuning to load development this week, and have two loads at or under MOA with 41.0-41.5 grains H4895 and the 120 grain Hammers. Seems like a real sweet spot for the caliber- a copper mono doing about 2850 should do the trick well for anything from Whitetail to Elk.

Yep that

I've used 4320, 4350, R19 and Big Game and havent had bad results with any of them. the 7-08 seems very forgiving to me.

hopefully, the right answer is a powder you already have in inventory since no one else does!

IMR4451 & Big Game, both are winners for me.

Bingo^^^^^^^^ What I use