7mm STW Brotherhood - For those who shoot the 7mm Shooting Times Westerner

Sako 75 · #**568** 05-10-2012, 08:35 PM

2 Great looking gun's therte 7stw, congrats and enjoy!!

Dano1 · #**569** 05-10-2012, 11:20 PM

7stw,

That is one good looking rifle. You certainly have a great addition to the stw collection you have. What is bbl the twist on the sharp shooter???

I'm looking to building a second load that will fit into the magazine. Looking at the 162g Hornady A-Max with H1000. And maybe a 3rd with a 150g Sierra Gameking, not sure of which powder.

I'm leaning heavily to Retumbo for the 180g Bergers. Pressure is almost non existant with the maximum "Book/ Quickload" charges. I'm thinking that I can work up a bit further. I just resized all of my brass from my last range session and there was virtually no expansion and the only portion of the case that was being resized was the neck, even on the cases with the max charges. No other signs at all, not even the debated flat primers.....

Just waiting on a calm day for round two with the 180s.... Cant wait!

Djion,

Welcome to the group. Nice rifle definately a shooter. Please tell us which bullets you are interested in using and which powders are available to you in South Africa. It seems that the 7 STW isn't too difficult to load for, however, loading techniques depend on which bullets you are wanting to shoot and then the powder choices narrow.

We are all willing to help, so please ask....

Dan

Big Jake Duke · #**570** 05-11-2012, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by etisll40

I'm thinking my next will be 25" and maybe a #4 Broughton contour with fluting, mainly for carry ability and more for upright shooting off of sticks, kneeling. I'm thinking of just shooting a 140 grain bullet. How fast a twist rate and what speed could I expect?

I have had very good performance from IMR 7828. I normally use the 160 gr class bullet, but 7828 also,performed extremely well in the 300 Jarret that i owned. A 300 Jarret is an 8 mm mag necked down to 30 cal. It falls between a 300 mag and a 300 rum. I sold it after i bought my second stw and realized the value of high bc bullets at high velocity.

Reloadersnest.com has been a source of data for me. Realize most guys post their maximum loads only so use some caution. I have had the 162 SSTs running out the barrel at 3200 infront of 7828. This is also only a 24 inch barrel. 7828 will do better in a 26 or longer also.

7stw · #**571** 05-11-2012, 05:00 PM

Dano, thanks again for the reply. I replied directly to your comment, but it got lost is cyber space, so I am righting this one. The barrel is 26 long, and I am sure that it is a 1-9 twist. The barrel contour is sort of a straight taper, and is slightly heavier than a normal magnum contour. The owner of the gunshop assured me that it will shoot as well as my sendero, or semi custom. I believe him, he has shot it a few times, I have not. This thing was definitely a closet queen. I took the bolt apart, and it had the brown gooey looking grease in there. Also, I think the barrel had never been removed from the stock. I could tell by the way that the screws " broke" when I took it apart.
I am going to do some loading tonite, and want to go and put a few rounds through it tomorrow.
Now that the deal is done on this one, I can get back to getting the other one finished and built. I think I am going to experiment with the 180's in the new build. You talked me into it Dano, that's not such a bad thing!! Thanks again and take care! Will keep you posted.