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7mm WSM Seems to becoming obsolete ?
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<blockquote data-quote="loaders_loft" data-source="post: 1551239" data-attributes="member: 10540"><p>I've been shooting my 7wsm for about 15 years now. Search my posts for the evolution of this rifle. I'm on my third barrel and I think I have finally gotten it right this time. It's a Winchester controlled round feed action and you should really see the follower. It has a specially designed surface that must help in feeding because it feeds perfectly. The factory barrel never shot well but I burned it up in maybe 500 to 700 rounds trying, not to mention cleaning it to death, it fouled so badly. The pacnor button rifled barrel short well and cleaned up amazingly but wouldn't hold 2Moa at about 700 rounds as I recall. I blame this in part on the button rifling but the death knoll was a single f- class match where I didn't even complete the strings of fire but the barrel got extremely hot, so hot I could smell the tru- oil I had used for finishing the stock. No amount of chasing the lands could restore accuracy. Now the rifle wears a 27" brux cut rifled lite palma 9 twist with a muscle brake. It's Hunting only, no matches for this barrel. All this time, three barrels later and I'm still using the same few hundred pieces of Winchester brass. I've annealed it a couple times, I keep it weight sorted and I switched to CCI primers once the Winchesters got loose. I did make some 7wsm brass from norma 300wsm at one point and it worked fine but it was a hassle and in the end no better than my Winchester brass. Note that nearly all my kills have been bang flop out to 642 yards and my preferred bullet is the 162 A max at 2980fps with either retumbo or h1000. At this point the only things I would consider doing differently would be a 1 in 8 twist for the 168LRX (CA) and maybe a carbon wrapped cut rifled barrel for weight reduction (14lbs full up with bipod).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loaders_loft, post: 1551239, member: 10540"] I've been shooting my 7wsm for about 15 years now. Search my posts for the evolution of this rifle. I'm on my third barrel and I think I have finally gotten it right this time. It's a Winchester controlled round feed action and you should really see the follower. It has a specially designed surface that must help in feeding because it feeds perfectly. The factory barrel never shot well but I burned it up in maybe 500 to 700 rounds trying, not to mention cleaning it to death, it fouled so badly. The pacnor button rifled barrel short well and cleaned up amazingly but wouldn't hold 2Moa at about 700 rounds as I recall. I blame this in part on the button rifling but the death knoll was a single f- class match where I didn't even complete the strings of fire but the barrel got extremely hot, so hot I could smell the tru- oil I had used for finishing the stock. No amount of chasing the lands could restore accuracy. Now the rifle wears a 27" brux cut rifled lite palma 9 twist with a muscle brake. It's Hunting only, no matches for this barrel. All this time, three barrels later and I'm still using the same few hundred pieces of Winchester brass. I've annealed it a couple times, I keep it weight sorted and I switched to CCI primers once the Winchesters got loose. I did make some 7wsm brass from norma 300wsm at one point and it worked fine but it was a hassle and in the end no better than my Winchester brass. Note that nearly all my kills have been bang flop out to 642 yards and my preferred bullet is the 162 A max at 2980fps with either retumbo or h1000. At this point the only things I would consider doing differently would be a 1 in 8 twist for the 168LRX (CA) and maybe a carbon wrapped cut rifled barrel for weight reduction (14lbs full up with bipod). [/QUOTE]
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