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Determine if Barrel is "Shot" . . . ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty7mmstw" data-source="post: 739624" data-attributes="member: 48043"><p>First of all, the 7 rum is a heck of a round, but it can also be troublesome accuracy wise and your barrel life may be under 1000 rounds even if you treat it with kit gloves. I'm rather nice to my rifles and my 7rum's accuracy started to fall off at 600 shots. You should have well defined rifling without an area at the origin(right in front where the bullet hits first) that looks like it's been hazed or is nearly flat( little or no rifling is bad here). </p><p>That said, dump the rem factory load and load up some 140 nos a-bonds or sierra 140's with rl25 or retumbo and shoot them for accuracy(assuming you have a good throat and your chamber is good). If you want to go heavy use a well put together 175 and H50 bmg powder(or I 5010 if you can find any).</p><p> </p><p>I eventually traded my 7 rum for a lh 300 rum and I'm still using the brass in that rifle. I'm thinking of re-visiting the 7rum though as that rifle was simply the easiest to kill with I've seen at over 1/4 mile. I only got 4 kills on the rifle before I retired it but they were at 600, 700+(the next morning), 400 and 200. Three of the 4 were running/trotting animals and none required more than two shots. Two were in rather stiff cross winds too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty7mmstw, post: 739624, member: 48043"] First of all, the 7 rum is a heck of a round, but it can also be troublesome accuracy wise and your barrel life may be under 1000 rounds even if you treat it with kit gloves. I'm rather nice to my rifles and my 7rum's accuracy started to fall off at 600 shots. You should have well defined rifling without an area at the origin(right in front where the bullet hits first) that looks like it's been hazed or is nearly flat( little or no rifling is bad here). That said, dump the rem factory load and load up some 140 nos a-bonds or sierra 140's with rl25 or retumbo and shoot them for accuracy(assuming you have a good throat and your chamber is good). If you want to go heavy use a well put together 175 and H50 bmg powder(or I 5010 if you can find any). I eventually traded my 7 rum for a lh 300 rum and I'm still using the brass in that rifle. I'm thinking of re-visiting the 7rum though as that rifle was simply the easiest to kill with I've seen at over 1/4 mile. I only got 4 kills on the rifle before I retired it but they were at 600, 700+(the next morning), 400 and 200. Three of the 4 were running/trotting animals and none required more than two shots. Two were in rather stiff cross winds too. [/QUOTE]
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