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139 Gr. bullets have been my standard for deer for over 35 years now. No no one makes a premium 139 gr bullet.

Uh, Hornady does.

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http://www.hornady.com/store/7MM-.284-139-gr-GMX/

Yeah I'll prolly stick to the nbt. But next year I may try the 160 ab to hunt with. I also would like to try the 140 Berger. Any experience with them

I shoot 140 AB over h1000

My pal shoots both 150's and 140's out of his 4 or 5 7mm Mag.s I have never heard him say much about either one..I think it depends on which is most accurate in a given rifle...In our old 7mm mag. we have been shooting 140's for about 20 years..It became my late wife's favorite rifle the last years she hunted because it shot so flat and kicked very little..She used the 140 BTBT to kill a nice moose about 10 years ago..One shot behind the shoulder and the moose crashed on the spot..We used a max load of Re 22..Her last antelope was just over 325 yards, and she dropped it on the spot with one round...The 140's have been great for us..I remember it taking: whitetails, mulies, antelope, elk,moose, axis deer, caribou and coyotes with this load..I would shift to an Accubond or Partition if I were using it on elk or moose now..but for lighter game, the 140's have been excellent..

my son and i have shot a few truck loads of deer and a few elk with the 140nbt and the older solid base nosler

Ed

Guess I'll have to decide if I want the extra speed or weight. Guess that's the classic question.

I've mostly used the 140 and 160 gr bullets in various forms,skipping over the 150 for no particularly good reason.Started at 3200 fps + the 140 Partition has been a bomb and very nasty killer for me,also accounting for what I think is the longest shot I've made on anything.

Recently and within the last couple of years I have been shooting both the 150 BT and the 150 NPT from the same rifle,both started at about 3120.I have to get to 600 yards before there is a meaningful difference in POI and even there it is small.

I'm lazy and like to shoot everything with one bullet so these days I'd grab either the 150 Partition or BT. I doubt any animal would know the difference between these and 140's .

I've shot the 139gr Hornady Interbond in my 7STW(3450fps mv) and 7mag(3200fps mv) through both shoulders on deer.I have yet to recover one and all deer quickly died.I've used a lot of Interbonds in various rifles.Some rifles shoot them really well and some seem to be more picky about seating depth.The bullet in the center is a 139gr Interbond.



Here's through the ribs photo from a 139gr Interbond from the 7mag.
Entrance side



Exit side

baldhunter: I need to try those Interbonds.I could not get them to shoot in one 270 but maygive them another run in 7mm.

People seem to say good things about them on game.Thanks for the pics.

Baldhunter
I shoot the sst interlock in my wife 7-08 and in both my 280s. I have had great success with them but my sendero seems to like the nbt better. I have shoot deer with nbt and. Urdu shoot with sst with. O noticeable difference in performance.

R#25 loves winchester magnum primers vs the fed 215 in several 7 Mags that I load for(browning a bolts and 700's). The load with the one hundred fifty four hornady Flat base is seventy three grains of twenty five with a Win Mag primer with thrity two fifty fps, which is not slouch load, with one half inch groups in Rem brass. If you try this load, work up to it starting off at sixty nine grains go up from there.

Keith - it is funny you mentioned the primers because I was stubbornly stuck on Federal 215M in my 7mm RM for the longest time. I recently tried Remington 9 1/2 primers and I was very pleased with the results.

I am getting sub half inch groups with the Win mag primers vs an inch with the 215's...deer would not know the difference.

This is interesting to me. I have tried the Cci primer and have some rem primers loaded with IMr 4350 but have not had a chance to shoot them yet. Been averaging .5-.75 with most loads. My sendero don't seem to mind whatever you put in it. It has amazed me with the ability to shoot almost anything