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Reloading
Longer barrel, slower powder?
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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 2394516" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>Try working up to max pressure in your rifle with a Hornady 139gr SST, WW760 powder and a magnum primer. Chrono it and get back with me. You will be both surprised and enlightened. I once had a 24" one that liked 50grs. This is over max in the newer books, but was fine in that old gun. The surprise came when I was playing with it and the chrono. My FIL came out with a 7rem mag and some 140 grain bullets in green and yellow boxes. It chronoed 2950fps. My handloads in the 7-08 just broke 3k. He went straight to the store for dies.... I had a good laugh. Of course the mag will do 3300, but his wasn't..... Try that bullet/powder combo, and work it up in YOUR rifle. 7-08 is one of the best deer cartridges ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 2394516, member: 92702"] Try working up to max pressure in your rifle with a Hornady 139gr SST, WW760 powder and a magnum primer. Chrono it and get back with me. You will be both surprised and enlightened. I once had a 24" one that liked 50grs. This is over max in the newer books, but was fine in that old gun. The surprise came when I was playing with it and the chrono. My FIL came out with a 7rem mag and some 140 grain bullets in green and yellow boxes. It chronoed 2950fps. My handloads in the 7-08 just broke 3k. He went straight to the store for dies.... I had a good laugh. Of course the mag will do 3300, but his wasn't..... Try that bullet/powder combo, and work it up in YOUR rifle. 7-08 is one of the best deer cartridges ever. [/QUOTE]
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