Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Need emergency load 28 nosler 160ab 🤞🤞

Got a buddy who can't find ammo and is heading out on an elk hunt in a week or two. I can borrow dies and I have a few slow powders here and some 160 acubound has anybody got a load that's worked pretty good that would give us a quick start on load development?

Hodgdon shows 7 160-gr loads on their website.

https://www.hodgdonreloading.com/reloading-data-center

Good luck!

Even Nosler has online load data for this combo - surprise, surprise, surprise

There's folks that would give their left nut for some of those 7mm / 160 AB's right about now

Thanks for the website links I have been to both places and of course the data can very quite a bit between the two manufacturers. I was hoping for the proverbial "this is the load me and my buddies are using and it works in every gun" scenario but I knew it was a Hope n a poke!

You don't say? Seems a strange concept. Nosler data for a Nosler bullet and for a Nosler cartridge? Hmm..

Doesn't sound like you were wanting to do any load development, or are you? OP unclear. Which is it? Working up a great load is pretty easy to do and you don't have to waste a ton of components either. Of course if you've loaded for a while you already know that. Look at the online Nosler load data, pick a powder and go with it. Can I point you to something that would work well in quick succession? Yes, it's pretty easy really.

BSA your more generous than I am. He waits till the elk hunt is 2-3 weeks away to get his gun squared away and ammo supply secured. ? Fug 'em.mb

I'ld rather be kraky's buddy.

Well put Double fug the dumbasses

Well leadminer to bad you aren't, as hard as it is to get an elk tag Kraky's buddy ought to be a whole lot more serious about having himself and ammo needs squared away long before the hunt. Sorry crap is what I call it...mb

So heres the deal... my buddy is a hard-working Dairy Farmer. Summer is extremely busy for them. Him his brother and dad got tags and are going on the hunt of a lifetime and by their standards it's a fairly expensive hunt. They are not terribly experienced people at shooting high-powered rifles... Wisconsin deer hunters yes open field shooting not so much. Yes the whole process dragged out a lot longer than I hoped it would too.
They're bread and butter farming took precidence over their hunt of a lifetime...summer is busy.
Unfortunately I think he is of the opinion that ammo is just ammo and doesn't realize different recipes shoot far more accurately than others and he thought I could build him some extra ammo and it would be the same as any other ammo. I did try one recipe and had mediocre results. They are not lazy ...I am not stupid... it's just a clumsy situation.

I’m keeping mine.

But Nosler's "most accurate powder" and load will shoot way less than a
minute of elk at any reasonable distance he would want to shoot at.

The Nosler most accurate load with the 175’s worked great in the last 28 I worked with, H1000.

H1000 also shot excellent with 162 ELDs, wasn’t listed as their most accurate but it was a great load. Both loads were right on the book speeds as well.

It’s an easy cartridge to get going. And the speed will be there.





I don’t have the 162 picture but if you can take me at my word it fell into the average between the 175 PT and ELD.

Sometimes I don my Captain Obvious hat.

Good lord, have them use a 30-06, don’t need a 28 Nosler to kill elk.

At this point a new rifle makes more sense than pulling a magic load for a relatively new cartridge out of my āss.

Heck, I got a spare -06 around here somewheres shooting 180 gr Partitions at 2800 fps. He can borrow it.





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Thanks Beretzs... I do have plenty of h1000 here I will try to get them up some test loads quick.

Do you have any Reloader 26?










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Do you have enough bullets?

Yes... I've got enough bullets. Now I'm having a b**** of a time getting decent run out on sized casings and I come to find out the case wall variance is three to four thousands on some of the most expensive shell casings out there LOL... this [bleep] always happens when you're trying to do somebody a favor.