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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 294293" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>Work up carefully to my load with H-870. I buy powder 5-10 kegs at a time with same lot numbers. H-870 can vary 10% lot to lot so keep that in mind. I have six 7mm STW's with different barrel lengths and twists for different bullets and applications. That load is out of a 28" Hart barrel on a Sako action. It was cut with a custom reamer that had some freebore in it but still allows me to seat the long 175 grain bullets near the lands if I want. My only stock one is a Weatherby MK 5 with a 26" barrel and it shoots just as good as the customs. It likes the 162 hornady Amax and shoots them 3385 fps with 83.5 grains of 7828. The STW and the 7mm-300 wby are my two favorite magnum 7mm's. I have two 7mm ultramags with 31" Hart custom barrels twisted for the longest, heaviest bullets out there and they shoot great also but barrel life really suffers once you go to that big a case. My son and I have 6 antelope tags between us and I like to see how far I can kill one each year with the 7mm's and the 264 STW. Fun to shoot in the wind with the high BC bullets. I shot a deer at almost 1300 yards with one on a calm fall evening with no thermals messing with me. My buddy got an antelope last year at 1100 yards with his STW and a heavy berger bullet. I got to top that this year to stay in the race here. Antelope are really small to shoot that far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 294293, member: 505"] Work up carefully to my load with H-870. I buy powder 5-10 kegs at a time with same lot numbers. H-870 can vary 10% lot to lot so keep that in mind. I have six 7mm STW's with different barrel lengths and twists for different bullets and applications. That load is out of a 28" Hart barrel on a Sako action. It was cut with a custom reamer that had some freebore in it but still allows me to seat the long 175 grain bullets near the lands if I want. My only stock one is a Weatherby MK 5 with a 26" barrel and it shoots just as good as the customs. It likes the 162 hornady Amax and shoots them 3385 fps with 83.5 grains of 7828. The STW and the 7mm-300 wby are my two favorite magnum 7mm's. I have two 7mm ultramags with 31" Hart custom barrels twisted for the longest, heaviest bullets out there and they shoot great also but barrel life really suffers once you go to that big a case. My son and I have 6 antelope tags between us and I like to see how far I can kill one each year with the 7mm's and the 264 STW. Fun to shoot in the wind with the high BC bullets. I shot a deer at almost 1300 yards with one on a calm fall evening with no thermals messing with me. My buddy got an antelope last year at 1100 yards with his STW and a heavy berger bullet. I got to top that this year to stay in the race here. Antelope are really small to shoot that far. [/QUOTE]
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