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Before I was enlightened to the fact that elk had armor I killed more than a few elk with a 7mm Rem mag shooting 154 hornady Interlock flat base spire points. All the bullets you are talking about will do just fine (unless you find an armor plated elk).

What you need is freezer wrap!

enjoy your hunt
8mmwapiti

Why mess with it?

I suppose the 160 works better? hmmmm

You already have a load for a 140 and you are sighted in?

Get out and practice shooting this new rifle and get very familiar with it

Stop phuggin with load bs and get proficient

I agree about the 175s, but was not all that impressed until I recently tried Re33 with them. .5 grains under max, got me 3075 fps with Hornady and Nosler from my 26-inch sps. If I did not have so many 160's, I may consider switching back to the 175.

Prepped 30 cases but the idea of using the 140gr. Partition load I already have worked up and is very accurate is starting to appeal to me. Not enough though to stop me from burning some powder and shooting some paper with both 160 gr. bullets.

I killed a 4x4 last year with a 140 Partition from my 7mm-08. One shot, DRT. Same bullet you're talking about.




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Load em up with the R22 and go shoot em. If you have a clock and know what they're running, do it again at 40 degrees or lower and see if you have the same speed.

I've found R22 to be very temp sensitive, Good lock to ya

I use Re22 a lot. Sighting in at the same range of temps you will be hunting at, negates the temp swings. All powder is temp sensitive to a point. Some are less than others, however.

It doesn't help that I will do the workup in 85 to 95 degree temps either. I have some H4831,not short cut, would that be less temp sensitive?

Where did you hit him? How fast were you pushing it?

If you work it up in the heat, it will not be a hot load in the cold. It is no big deal. Just sight in before you go hunting and if you have a chrono, check to see how much difference there is. Usually, I have found that poi does not change a lot over all.

MV is 2873 ft/sec, distance was 68 yards. He was broadside to me and I hit hit about halfway down the left scapula, near the long ridge that runs down the bone horizontally. The bullet took out both lungs and lodged under the hide. The bull took two startled steps forward then staggered backward and collapsed.






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There is a range that goes to 600 yards we check our rifles on before we go hunting. I usually bring enough ammo to play on it a while.

Pretty photo. The bullet looks perfect considering the high impact velocity and the thick part of the elk it hit.

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I'll let JG talk about 160 NAB's out of his 7RM.

DF

I love it!

My uncle and a buddy of his have probably 6 moose and as many elk they've killed with 160gr partitions out of 7 mags. Very effective bullet in the .284 caliber.

If I keep reading about .280 Rem's, I'm liable to sell every rifle I own and buy one.

I know very little about the .280 AI, but I do know about the .280 Rem. It doesn't give up enough to the 7MM Rem Mag to cause any big game to know the difference, and I like 22" barreled rifles. And I also know that there's magic in .284 caliber bullets.

My elk hunt starts on Sept 13. I have about 90 160 grain 7MM Rem Mag Paritions loaded with 67 grains of H-4831, a load that I got out of data that was printed in the 70's. It is completely safe in my Sako. In fact, I could increase it were I inclined. But I'm not. I'll take it as it is. I've chrono'd it at better than 3100 FPS. I did buy a hundred 175 grain Partitions. I'm not going to load then. I'll use the 160 grain Partitions I have.

BTW, my worst shot was on a mule deer buck. I usually hunt mule deer with my .270 Win. But my brother was using it. So I used my 7MM Rem Mag with 160 grain Partitions. At about a 100 yards I hit a buck square in the gut. No excuses: it was a horrible shot. He dropped immediately. I did have to shoot him again. I hate second shots. Anyway, I was impressed with the Partition's ability to drop game with horrible shots. I hope to God that I never repeat such horrible shooting.

Don't need a .280 when I have a long throated 7x57.




Here's a cow elk I killed with a 7mm Dakota. Shot it around 100 yds away,with a 160 gr NP at just a hair under 3200 fps mv.

elkhunternm,

God only knows how many of all North American big game were killed with a 7X57.

A 160 grain .284 Partiton at 2800 FPS will kill anything in North America.

I learned this far to late: it ain't ow fast a bullet goes, it's where a bullet goes.

When I began hunting, my hunting friend who's now in Heaven used to tell me that the MM in 7MM Rem Mag stood for might miss, the point being that velocity is useless if a bullet does go where it needs to be.