Got my first deer with my 17 HMR at about 125 yards i hit her in the head and she dropped on the spot. When we get about 5 feet away from it it jumps up and starts running in circles and i shoot her again and she trips and falls and then gets back up and starts chasing after my brother and then...
i have a 7mm mag in a savage model 110e and that rifle is getting .346 inches at 100 yards with 140 gr nosler bt with 70.3 gr of imr 7828 and getting around 3131 at muzzle. and another one is 162 hornady interlock btsp with 71 grains of retumbo and the speed was 3080 at muzzle but i dont know...
Sorry I should have put it more clear and with the specs of the seating depth as well. When I started with the 162 hornady interlocks I started right at the cannelure and did not worry about seating the bullet to touch the lands, and that seating depth is 3.330 With the H Retumbo I am only...
i am using the 140 nbt with IMR 7828 70.3gr going 3131fps at muzzle over a chonograph. i am getting .348 inch groups at 100 yds and 2 inch groups at 800 yds
IMR 7828 is a good powder for the 7mm rem mag. with like the 162s i use H retumbo it gets the 162s out at 3071 fps at 15 ft over a chronograph out of a 24 in barrel and 73 grains of powder.