7mm-08 with 150 + bullets

[LVJ76]

For 150gr and above, mine likes the Berger 150gr Classic Hunter, and my wife's love the 162 Amax. In my experience I would avoid bonded bullets at 7mm-08 speeds. 150gr Ballistic Tip is a great bullet for this cartridge as well.

 

[crazymonkey]

The 7-08 is a very capable round with the right load . With a short barrel and heavier bullets there going to be slow . There's not enough case capacity to really get them moving. If you went copper mono like a barns ttsx you could come down on weight and they hit hard . I'm currently pushing a ttsx 140 at 3055 with 51.3 gr staball6.5 and the 120 will do 3260 at 53 gr . Now I'm running them thru a 26 inch brux and you will loose some due to the short barrel.

 

[Weaver93]

I have good luck with HH 146s and HHT 153s with Superformance

 

[MagnumManiac]

With mine, 8" twist, I loaded 120g and 150g Ballistic Tips for the ex-wife, and I was using either the 150g BT or 168g ABLR. I was very impressed with the performance of both using Varget or H4350.

Cheers.

 

[Weaselthis]

9 twist, 4 groove. 26" Brux. Stiller Predator action.
162g ELDM, 46-47g H4350
2750fps
This was my target load for years....VERY accurate to 1K.
Haven't killed anything w/ it yet.....just sold the comp chassis and put on a beautiful, classic BDL wood stock. Still shoots into .75 MOA at 300y after 4000+ rounds.
YMVMV

 

[FireFlyFishing]

The 7-08 is a very capable round with the right load . With a short barrel and heavier bullets there going to be slow . There's not enough case capacity to really get them moving. If you went copper mono like a barns ttsx you could come down on weight and they hit hard . I'm currently pushing a ttsx 140 at 3055 with 51.3 gr staball6.5 and the 120 will do 3260 at 53 gr . Now I'm running them thru a 26 inch brux and you will loose some due to the short barrel.

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[Frank in the Laurels]

..no need to go heavier, a real Barnes X-bullet or Nosler Partition in 150 will handle everything you can hit...

 

[Catskills]

In a 22" tube, I'm getting 2800fps with 160g SGK and RL26. I think the these bullets would meet your expectations at the velocity you are likely to achieve.

 

[Hudge76]

I'm using 150 gr. ELD-X's with Varget in mine.

 

[highcaliber]

7mm08 one of my favorites. I would look at one of the flat base bullets in 160gr. Class if you are not seeking long range.
They are a little shorter in length and load well in this cartridge.

 

[highbrow]

I use 175 Hornady flat base with Reloder 26 in my 7-08 for the rams at 500 meters. Accurate and so far they have all gone down when hit.