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What are your favorite loads???
Why can't Nosler make a 7mm 120g AB ?

120 NBT or TSX over 44.0 R15, R-P brass and Fed G210M primers.

Nosler doesn't need a 120 AB because the 120 NBT is tougher than the AB would be...

Kimber7man is absolutely correct.

Nosler penetration-tests all the bullets it develops in various kinds of media, and if there isn't any advantage in turning one of the Ballistic Tips into an AccuBond, they don't do it. That's why there isn't a 120 7mm AB--or a 100 .25, for that matter.

120 NBT, 49.7grs Ramshot Big Game, Remington brass, WLR primers.

Chrono's ~3100 from a 22" tube.

I looked at the Ramshot website and this is above their max. Any pressure signs?

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Nosler's data is 48-52 grains, with 50 being their most accurate load. I was getting slightly flatter than I like(still quite rounded, but starting to let you know) primers at 50 grains, the .3 I backed off works well.

47.5 Big Game with 140s also.

43.5 rl 15 and 139 hornady

Bb

+1, Actually, I'm at 44 gr. with the NBT & 44.5 gr. with the (T)TSX.

If I want a heavier bullet, then I will step up to the 140 Partition or (T)TSX.

I also use the same bullets in my 280 Rem.........just more of a good thing.

MM

Now how could a NBT be tougher than a bonded bullet? Though the ABs arent really all that tough compared to a IB, are they.

Except the part about the R-15, Varget is much better

My pet deer load is a Speer 145 Gr. SPFB over 47 Gr. of W-760 . This is a hot load , so work up toward it .

The 120 gr. BT is tougher due to a thicker jacket, especially in the rear half. A belt sander will section one so that the difference is obvious.

I load the same load as Kimber7man; 44.0 gr. Reloader 15, Rem. brass, F210M primer ( TTSX chrony'd 3052 fps. ). I haven't chrony'd the BT yet.

Id say its a tossup between the two.

I am a big fan of Varget (more on the shelf than any other) and it was the first powder I tried with the 120 TTSX. I had not used RL 15 previously, so I bought a can. In my particular rifle at least, with this particular bullet (actually the 120 NBT too) RL 15 shoots groups half again smaller than with Varget, H4350, or Big Game. I still shoot lots of Varget in my .308.

Daughter's rifle, 22" Barnes TTSX VV N150 WW brass, CCI spark. Good accuracy, little recoil, vert clean. Good load for her, she never hunted until we went to SA on Safari, where she took a wildebeast and a warthog. She bought a starter Savage on return home, and this is the load that seems to work.Whitetail opens on Saturday, well see how it works on game.

Where I hunt is 30/30 ranges....

so I load 30 grains of Rl 7 or IMR 4198 with a 100 to 139 grain bullet...

all we need..

My Ruger Mk II 7mm-08

120gr NBT 44.5 Varget 2950fps

140gr TTSX 42.9 Varget 2860 fps

145 gr. Speer with 41 gr. of Varget. Not a real fast load, runs about 2700 fps in my rifle.

ditto

have killed over 25 deer easy with a 284 120 nbt at speeds from 2725 to 3595 fps they work great


great youth load


40gns re15 2725 ish

my son has killed a great 9 pt with it @ 55 yds and a lil 4 pt @ 138 yds

i have killed a 168 lb field dressed 12 @ 279 yds with this load he dropped in tracks punched both shoulders with an exit