Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 7mm PRC = 280 +P?

In broad brushstrokes, the 284 Prick brings a pile driving ass to the table,over the counter. It stands largely alone there. Why? Bullets,bullets and bullets. Hint.............

I don't shoot much, and I'm invested in the 264 Prick, along with the Kreed. But for a new shooter, the 7 PRC may be the ticket.

WTF are you talking about? ......264 prick?

WTF are you talking about? ......264 prick?

6.5 PRC

Why didn't you say just say PRC?

Just using BS' slang. I like it.
May I?

No!!! only I can...
I do like the slang "Salvage" the rest seems childish to me...

Ok beretzs, fire up the Jiffy Pop, buddy. Got to the range this morning.

24 inch Douglas premium stainless barrel, SAAMI chamber cut with 4D reamer. 137 shots before this morning. Cleaned bore.

60f degrees, 1,800ft elev.

Caldwell chronograph that has been consistent and predictable with many tiny standard deviation air rifle tunes. Posts same numbers as my buddy's for what that's worth. 15 feet from the muzzle.

Burleyboy, I pulled an ELD X from the Hornady load and it is the ball powder.

I was getting a stiff bolt with some of the Hornady ELD X load previously and so shot 3 of these early with a barely warm barrel and then 3 more at the end with a very hot barrel. I was thinking maybe the cartridges were heating up in the chamber effecting the powder. I did get some difficult bolt lift with the last three but, the numbers don't show a pressure spike. Maybe a brass thing?

My rifle LOVES the Federal 175 ELD X load and the Hornady 180 ELD M load. Puts all the tested loads under an inch but these two into well under an inch. And, the Fed X load and the Horn CX load shoot to the same POI at 100.

I was really only interested in the Federal load but, threw the others in for you guys. Honestly, I don't really care how fast it is and my main concern was what beretzs alluded to. I don't want it too fast for cup and cores to work well at 50 yards.

Pretty sure the math is right. Anywho:

Federal 175 ELD X (including 1st clean bore shot which seems to be an outlier)
Average of 15 shots 2,930 f/s
SD 18.2
ES 68

Federal 175 ELD X (not including 1st clean bore shot)
Average of 14 shots 2,927 f/s
SD 14.5
ES 46

Hornady 175 ELD X
Average of 6 shots 2,876 f/s

Hornady 160 CX
Average of 3 shots 2,904 f/s

Hornady 180 ELD M
Average of 3 shots 2,812 f/s

Fed 175 X
2,972
2,906
2,915
2,913
2,938

Horn 175 X
2,884
2,889
2,872

Horn 160 CX
2,911
2,898
2,902

Horn 180 M
2,821
2,804
2,812

Fed 175 X
2,936
2,917
2,911
2,923
2,940
2,904
forgot to look
forgot to look
2,941
2,945
2,950
2,935

Horn 175 X
2,880
2,875
2,857

Yeah Scotty, it should cause a good bruise. Grins.

The thing is, all the urber-hype that came out on the 7PRC’s velocity caused some heads to scratch for some of us who are seeing speeds far below what would be expected based on published information…

Heck, me chasing fps numbers, just trying to get within 100fps of what the cartridge was alleged to do, left me with a few empty boxes of ammunition I otherwise wouldn’t have had to use if their speed numbers were more realistic.

It will kill, no question. And I will likely hunt it in a few weeks for a Roosevelt.

I’m actually more interested to see how the 175gr Eld-x performs into meat/bone at 400-600 yards. This is my first rodeo using this bullet on a game animal.

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the main advantage of the PRC, IMO, is factory rifles in 8” twist.

The PRC maybe a hot item now but the 7mm Mashburn did those velocity numbers 50 yrs ago with 300 Win brass as the source. Mine will consistantly shoot .6 in groups. So even though it may be a bigger 6,5 manbun they haven't done much but reinvent the wheel.