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Thank you for the info. The shots were around fourty yards for one and about sixty yards for the other. Both were broadside shots hit right behind the shoulder, right in the boiler room.

My brother used this same rifle to fill his doe tag and shot one at approximately thirty yards, took three shots to bring her down, we recovered one of the bullets lodged in the off shoulder, perfect mushroom

I guess ill use this gun and load strictly for elk, I think im getting complete pass throughs on deer, and without the bullet hitting bone no expansion occurs on deer. I originally bought this rifle for elk, but tried to use it for both, unfortunately i didnt get the chance to try it out on an elk, but every one i talked to said it should be a great bullet for them.

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Hey there Varmintcaller,.... just got back home from hunting and noticed your posts. What was the load you settled on (grain weight) to do your deer hunting with?

For hunting whitetails I use a different powder,... Accurate 8700.    

I use a compressed load of it at 79 grains,... everthing else is the same,... 162 BTSP Hornady's and the CCI Magnum Rifle primers. It drops the whitetails in there tracks here at home. I've never had a deer run anywhere with this load.

They drop like a sack o' tater's.

Just make sure you do your job and place the shot in the Sweet Spot!

 

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Hey 7MM magnum

I used 64.5 grains of reloader 22, pushing the hornady 162 grain interlock bullet, I think this load is just too much for whitetails. Do you think it would be ok for elk? I dont have a chronograph so i cant tell the velocity, but it is really accurate in my rifle.

 

With all your experience with the seven mag ill take any advice you give me as gospel.

I have other 7mms and never had a problem with the hornady bullets but this is my first 7mag. I really like it, but its tough to lose a fine animal like a whitetail. Any advice would be appreciated.

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varmintcaller,...

 

I was somewhat shocked to hear your report about that whitetail,....

I have NEVER not had the Hornady 162 pills drop a whitetail,... especially pumping 2-3 of them into one. Just 1 should do the job let alone that many !!

According to my software,.. your load is generating right in the neighborhood of 2882 FPS,.. with 2988 ft lbs of Kill Energy. And the experience I have had with this software,.. the chrony readout's gonna' be REALLY close to the projected figures it gives me.

The load that I had originally posted to you in the beginning of the thread IS the one that I use for Elk hunting,... more than enough punch to drop an Elk with a well placed shot.

It is however not unheard of for a 7mm Mag to take a couple of shots to drop an Elk but the same goes for a .30 caliber pill also. Sometimes an animals nervous system (especially Large game) can take the shock of 1-2 rounds and not have it phase them until the plumbing figures out there's a really bad leak and quits pumping the fluid

(cause there's not enough running in their pipes to pump anymore  )

Don't give up on your load,... it shows very good results plus you already stated it groups very well for you! Some animals just are a little higher strung than others and they will exibit that after being shot. 



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Thank you very much for running my load through your software program, I really appreciate all the help you have given me. I havent given up on my load, I was just shocked that the whitetail didnt drop in his tracks. But like you say the dumb thing didnt know it was dead.

I rally fell in love with this caliber, and I intend on using it almost exclusively, and im going to increase my loads just to see what the rifle is really capable of, Of course im going to do it safely.

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Just be careful and be SURE you work them up slowly,....barrel harmonics can vary dramatically from rifle to rifle.

 

I would suggest in .3 grain increments about 10 round of each just to track there shooting characteristics. I've been doing it that way for many years and you'll be surprised because sometimes just .3 of a grain too much can make a good "Shooter",... into a rifle that shoots nothing but "Fliers"  

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took your advice and increased my load by .3 grains, loaded five added .3 grains loaded five. and did the same up to 65.4 gr. Fotunately I only live ten minutes from the rifle range, and when I shot the first five shots 64.8 gr. I got bright shiney ejector marks, and the primers flattened out, and the bolt was a little stickey, so I stopped, and pulled the bullets from the other loads. It was about 30 degrees outside but I hunt in cold weather anyway so i figured that my original load should be max in my rifle for the conditions in which I hunt, so Im going to leave it at that. Its an accurate load in my rifle, and if I cant hit em, a few more feet per second isnt going to do me any good.

 

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You hit the nail on the head,...

Ya' start to see signs of too much pressure back off and call it good with what know you've got.

Those extra FPS are not going to make a whole dang bit of difference in the long run.

Your target won't know the difference between 2800fps or 3200fps anyhow

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I hear that! Im still interested in your results with the reloader 25 powder, when you get it going let us know how you did. And please print out your computer program, it really fascinates me. I would love to use one but im not a mathematician, Pretty dumb with numbers

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Well Here's the report for my software program,... I had to do this a different way this time so I hope it works out ok. I can't get my other software program to copy it correctly so I had to use a different one.

I'll keep working on the other one though,.. in case this plan B one doesn't work well enough.

Well I can see SOMETHING isn't working right!  The URL address is correct so something must be up with the "Photobucket" server.

 



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I'm going to try a different way now,.... and it's going to be BIG!

 

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WOW, That reallys is big...But interesting, Let me know how it shoots,



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