Good load for 7mm-08 120 gr BT in XP?

sambo3006 · #1 10-08-2009, 09:05 PM

I'm thinking of shooting some 120 gr BT's in my 7mm-08 XP 100. I have the following powders on hand. AA2520, Benchmark, IMR 3031, IMR 4064 (very little), H450, H414, W748, W760, IMR 4350. I'll be using Remington 9 1/2 primers and new Winchester brass. Suggestions?

Ernie · #2 10-09-2009, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by sambo3006

I'm thinking of shooting some 120 gr BT's in my 7mm-08 XP 100. I have the following powders on hand. AA2520, Benchmark, IMR 3031, IMR 4064 (very little), H450, H414, W748, W760, IMR 4350. I'll be using Remington 9 1/2 primers and new Winchester brass. Suggestions?

Not what you have, but I always used H-4895 with 140 NBT's and sometimes the 120 NBT's.

loaders_loft · #3 11-19-2009, 12:13 PM

sambo, what did you come up with? What kind of accuracy & speed did you get?

J E Custom · #4 11-19-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sambo3006

I'm thinking of shooting some 120 gr BT's in my 7mm-08 XP 100. I have the following powders on hand. AA2520, Benchmark, IMR 3031, IMR 4064 (very little), H450, H414, W748, W760, IMR 4350. I'll be using Remington 9 1/2 primers and new Winchester brass. Suggestions?

My best load has been 49.5grs H414, 120gr ballistic tip and a CCI BR2 primer.

My xp likes the 150gr Blist. Tip and h 4350.

J E CUSTOM

sambo3006 · #5 11-20-2009, 10:47 PM

I haven't tried any 120's yet. Thought I had some but I don't. I threw together a load with a moly coated 140 gt BT and Hodgdon Benchmark powder. So far 3 groups at 100 yds with an average around 0.65". Haven't chronographed but I'm guessing maybe 2500 fps. I still want to try the 120's, hopefully they will shoot as well as the 140's!