Welcome to camp friend! Loads that are safe in other rifles may or may not be safe in your rifle. Start off by loading up several different powder charges and try them to see what YOUR rifle likes..
The 150 gr 7mm Ballistic Tip is one tough bullet. I have some experience with the Solid Base bullets, but I have 25 yrs or more experience with the Ballistic Tip and most of that is with the 7mm 150gr BT, so personally, I would tackle any deer species in North America with the BT.
Good Luck
What you see from others when it comes to velocity may or may not transfer to your rifle. Just to be honest, unless you know or have some sort of connection with this trove of data you had better be careful.
Case in point, my 280 Rem will digest 57 grs of IMR 4831 and spit a 139 gr SST bullet...
I think you missed JD's point. I may be wrong tho!!
RememberBaker, My father always said, if you have something that works why change horses in mid-stream. Personally, I'd keep dancing with the "girl" that I brought to the dance! That's my opinion, however, its worth exactly what you paid...
It may be available but it's also available at prices that have never been seen before as well. RL-17 ---90 dollars per lb. RL 22----90 dollars, RL 16-- 88 dollars, plus others at exorbitant prices. As much as I would like to have some RL-16 I, for one will not pay that. There are simply other...
Im up near Clemson and the heat index has been 101-103 and as you know you can wear the humidity.
Things went well but gee mo nettie was it ever hot! Not a wisp of wind. Barrel takes forever to cool. I did however get what I went for accomplished.
Nice!!
Im about to head to the range before the sun heats it up to the 95 degrees they are calling for the rest of the weekend. There are a few good qualities about Summer time, they escape at the present moment, but for the most part, I despise Summer time!
Salmon, I do believe yotes will cross with dogs but I do not believe it's as prevalent as some think. As far as the shooting and trapping of yotes. Outside of widespread poisoning, which is illegal there is no way to eliminate coyotes. They are here to stay. In my neck of the woods coyotes are...
Several years ago, 10-15 or better, I bought a box of Hornady 284 cal. I opened the box a few days later and something just didn't look right. I found several .264 caliber bullets. I called Big Red and told them my issue. They recalled a couple lots of bullets. They sent me two boxes of what I...
We have very few yotes that would go in the 50 lbs, heck, a 35-40 lb'er is a monster here. I killed a big male 3-4 yrs ago while hunting that might have gone 35-40 lbs and I thought he was big. I thought somebody's German Shepherd had gotten loose. I shot this ol boy about 12pm.
I do not "live...
Im with Jim!! It's been a long time since I loaded the 243 and when I did it was with IMR-7828, 100 gr Nosler Partition. Wonderfully accurate and devastating on white-tails.