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Thanks for all the help. 63.3gr of H4831SC worked out great with the 160 Partitions. Badley - Do you have any idea what velocity this load is giving you? The reason I ask is that the 7 mag's are notorious for being all over the map on velocities vs. book loads. I have only killed one moose with my 7 mag. It has a long throat and in order to get up to a desirable velocity I have to load several grains over book max. Within any reasonable range a .270 with 150 partitions will do the job nicely. The majority of the moose I have taken have been with this combination. The one moose taken with the 7 mag. was with a 160 gr. X bullet. Jim
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Max book load with H870 with 160 gr Speer & 160 Gr Nosler Partition. Discontinued powder but have a lot of it and only powder I could see book velocity and reasonable pressure.
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160 grain partition with 67 grains of H1000 = shooters fault if it is not dead.
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Thanks for all the help. 63.3gr of H4831SC worked out great with the 160 Partitions. It will work just fine if he puts one of them in the right place.
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Thanks for all the help. 63.3gr of H4831SC worked out great with the 160 Partitions. Badley - Do you have any idea what velocity this load is giving you? The reason I ask is that the 7 mag's are notorious for being all over the map on velocities vs. book loads. I have only killed one moose with my 7 mag. It has a long throat and in order to get up to a desirable velocity I have to load several grains over book max. Within any reasonable range a .270 with 150 partitions will do the job nicely. The majority of the moose I have taken have been with this combination. The one moose taken with the 7 mag. was with a 160 gr. X bullet. Jim I ran 10 rounds over my chrony with this load and they avg 3088.
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That's excellent speed, I have a Sako 7mm RM barrel coming for my L 691 action and was planning on using the 160 Gr Accubond with H 4831 sc. My brother has killed a bunch of moose with the 7mm RM and it does work quite well with almost any good bullet.
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I would go 175 partition my self
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175 partitions were not one of my options. I do have some 160 Barnes, but I guess I was just being selfish and saving them do myself. I think he will do just fine with the 160's.
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I think you have plenty of confidence in what the 160 Partition is capable of on moose. If only to reinforce that, here are a few bullets I've recovered from our local moose population. l to r- 250 Grand Slam/340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 225 XFB/ 340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 170 Core-lokt / 30-30 Win/ 75-100 yards; 160 FailSafe/7mm-08/ 250-300 yards; 200 BALTP//340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards. Lots of bullets can; the 160 Partition can and will very handily in the 7 Mag; it's yours (or your buddy's) to screw up.
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I think you have plenty of confidence in what the 160 Partition is capable of on moose. If only to reinforce that, here are a few bullets I've recovered from our local moose population. l to r- 250 Grand Slam/340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 225 XFB/ 340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 170 Core-lokt / 30-30 Win/ 75-100 yards; 160 FailSafe/7mm-08/ 250-300 yards; 200 BALTP//340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards. Lots of bullets can; the 160 Partition can and will very handily in the 7 Mag; it's yours (or your buddy's) to screw up. Definitely my buddies to screw up. I'll never be able to afford to go on a moose hunt, much less screw one up.
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I took my only moose so far with a 7mm Rem Mag, old 160 grain Barnes X and 79 grains of H870. If I was to use the 7mm Rem again, I am pretty sure I'd run the 175 PT or maybe the 150 Swift just to be different. Too many great bullets that'll hammer moose.
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My old man uses plain old 175gr remington core lokts every year without any problems on moose. Just put it where it counts.
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Thanks for all the help. 63.3gr of H4831SC worked out great with the 160 Partitions. Badley - Do you have any idea what velocity this load is giving you? The reason I ask is that the 7 mag's are notorious for being all over the map on velocities vs. book loads. I have only killed one moose with my 7 mag. It has a long throat and in order to get up to a desirable velocity I have to load several grains over book max. Within any reasonable range a .270 with 150 partitions will do the job nicely. The majority of the moose I have taken have been with this combination. The one moose taken with the 7 mag. was with a 160 gr. X bullet. Jim They are all over the place, it takes 68 gr H4831 with 160 Noslers to go a bit over 3000 in mine, and 66 RL22 goes 2907 with a 175 partition.
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Makes we wonder about my chrono. I'll have to go run some of my other loads over it and see what the ring up. I know that I can't run 68 grs oh 4831 in this gun. Pressure was definitely there with 63.3.
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Badley, never shot a moose, but I ran 160gr Partitions at 3000fps with 64gr of RL22 and Rem 9 1/2Mag primers. My gun does give velocities on par with expected per book, and that seems an anomaly more than the norm, but lucky me!
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I think you have plenty of confidence in what the 160 Partition is capable of on moose. If only to reinforce that, here are a few bullets I've recovered from our local moose population. l to r- 250 Grand Slam/340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 225 XFB/ 340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards; 170 Core-lokt / 30-30 Win/ 75-100 yards; 160 FailSafe/7mm-08/ 250-300 yards; 200 BALTP//340 Weatherby/ 200ish yards. Lots of bullets can; the 160 Partition can and will very handily in the 7 Mag; it's yours (or your buddy's) to screw up. That 170 grain .30-30 bullet looks great! I assume it did a good job on the moose? Guy
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Yes it did! A second separated his spine and put him on the ground pronto and wasn't found. Round nosed Corelokts have been "premium" cup and cores IME.
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K - this is a 170 Core Lokt that I recovered from, I think, the 6th one-gallon water jug, at 20 yards. I was always impressed with the bullet and decided to test it. Penetrated farther than most of my .308 and .30-06 loads and as deep as some of my .375 ammo... I'd guess that after 100+ years, they've got the .30-30 bullets pretty well figured out! Guy
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Maybe I missed it but I'd have various ideas depending on which moose and where. Might be 800-1000 pounds difference depending on location. Personally, I want more rifle in AK than in Wyo or Newfie. That said the 160 Partition is a #1-#1A choice in a 7 RM but I'd be careful when you stick it in the moose as with any caliber. I'm not sure how/why a guy would invest in a moose hunt and only have 50 bullets for practice and the hunt. That seems just a tad ..... well .... ya know...... But maybe he's walking out his back door and doesn't have much cash invested so an extra 70 bucks into bullets is an honest expense. Post pics upon return.
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