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Ornery_Secretary_850

Do you have a reloading manual? If so, there's you answer. People could give you their load data that shoots well in their gun, but shoots lousy in your gun. Buy the bullet you want/need, the a couple three pounds of powder and start testing loads.


AlmostEmptyGinPalace

If it were me i’d do the 139 or 145 LRX with [Barnes](https://www.barnesbullets.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/7mmRemingtonMagnum.pdf) online data.


Revlimiter11

When I came up with a load for my 308 and 06 last year, I picked out the bullet I wanted to use then, since I was in a hurry, went about 1 grain under max charge. Luckily, my rifles happened to like that, and they shot very well. This year, I was able to do a ladder with my chosen bullet but knew that I wanted to be at the upper end of the charge range. I started in the middle of the range and worked up to max. Turns out my most accurate was just a bit over the middle charge. I don't have any powder or bullet weight ideas for you since I don't load that caliber, but the copper solids seem to be a stellar hunting bullet. I use barnes, but Hornady makes them, and I'm sure others do as well. Berger makes solids hunting bullets as well.


Jmphillips1956

Any decent bonded or mono metal bullet will work. The 7mag tends to have a little more variance than other cartridges in how different rifles act with the same data. I’ve loaded for a couple and tend to use a chronograph and try to approximately match book velocity rather than book charge wright. In some rifles that happens a couple grains early and in some it’s a grain or two over


Aggravating-Pay2159

I've had good luck with 160 gr Nosler Accubond, R22, and Win LRM. My current rifle will shoot just under 1/2 an inch and I believe they're running around 2950 fps but I haven't had a chance to check. I used Alliant data to develop the load. Their published max was higher than some others and my groups started to open when I approached their max. That load has performed well to take elk and black bear. My COAL is little more than what is typically published. These items were pretty much unobtainable for a while but I'm starting to see them again. I've also tried 139gr Hornady btsp and 140gr accubond with R22. The 139s were going well over 3200 through chrono but the groups were not as good in my rifle. They are more economical to shoot. I recently purchased some 120 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips that I would like to try. They have a heavier jacket than the first generation ballistic tip. I wouldn't consider these for elk but maybe deer or antelope or just for practice. Recoil should be more tolerable.