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Fireformed vs Virgin Brass Accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 274109" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>The first AND ONLY 7mm Rem. Mag rifle rifle I ever or will ever own was a Rem-700 SS. I bought 100 new cases and started working up loads. I am a very experienced hand loader and have some friends that are also very experienced loaders of the 7mm mag. They pointed me toward loads that had worked great for them and these loads came to about the same conclusion. All the loads that I worked up were with the new cases only. I could not get this rifle to shoot better than about 2" groups no matter what load I tried. When I got to the end of the new cases I FL sized them and loaded up some of the load that had been the best out of all that I had tried. I was about to get rid of the rifle because it would not shoot up to my expectations. When I fired the first two shots @ 100 yards I looked through the spotting scope and could only find one hole in the target. I thought great, now I can't even hit the paper with this thing. I fired the third round. Looked in the spotting scope and still only one bullet hole. Tried a fourth shot. Looked through the spotting scope and that one bullet hole was still there. BUT! I looked just a little bit bigger for some reason. I fired the fifth shot and upon looking through the spotting scope I could tell that there was about half a bullet worth larger hole at the one o-clock position in that same bullet hole. To make a long story short. When using a case that had been fired and then FL sized it almost did not matter what load you tried in that rife it would shoot under 1 1/2" groups @100 yards. It really liked AA3100 powder. I got rid of that rifle because it really was too much rifle for the whitetail deer that I was shooting. They had a bad habit of taking a perfect shoulder or heart lung shot and would run a 100 yards or more into a very thick cut over before they went down. I traded that 7 mag for a 25-06 just like it and I don't have to trail a deer anymore. It is bang flop with that 25.</p><p>It goes to show you that strange things can happen when loading and shooting rifles. That is what I like about it. Going off into the unknown. Good luck I hope your groups shrink.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 274109, member: 10178"] The first AND ONLY 7mm Rem. Mag rifle rifle I ever or will ever own was a Rem-700 SS. I bought 100 new cases and started working up loads. I am a very experienced hand loader and have some friends that are also very experienced loaders of the 7mm mag. They pointed me toward loads that had worked great for them and these loads came to about the same conclusion. All the loads that I worked up were with the new cases only. I could not get this rifle to shoot better than about 2" groups no matter what load I tried. When I got to the end of the new cases I FL sized them and loaded up some of the load that had been the best out of all that I had tried. I was about to get rid of the rifle because it would not shoot up to my expectations. When I fired the first two shots @ 100 yards I looked through the spotting scope and could only find one hole in the target. I thought great, now I can't even hit the paper with this thing. I fired the third round. Looked in the spotting scope and still only one bullet hole. Tried a fourth shot. Looked through the spotting scope and that one bullet hole was still there. BUT! I looked just a little bit bigger for some reason. I fired the fifth shot and upon looking through the spotting scope I could tell that there was about half a bullet worth larger hole at the one o-clock position in that same bullet hole. To make a long story short. When using a case that had been fired and then FL sized it almost did not matter what load you tried in that rife it would shoot under 1 1/2" groups @100 yards. It really liked AA3100 powder. I got rid of that rifle because it really was too much rifle for the whitetail deer that I was shooting. They had a bad habit of taking a perfect shoulder or heart lung shot and would run a 100 yards or more into a very thick cut over before they went down. I traded that 7 mag for a 25-06 just like it and I don't have to trail a deer anymore. It is bang flop with that 25. It goes to show you that strange things can happen when loading and shooting rifles. That is what I like about it. Going off into the unknown. Good luck I hope your groups shrink. [/QUOTE]
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