Thread: 300 and 7mm Blaser Magnum

There is a good article in the latest Nz Hunter mag written by Jared at blackwatch reloading
Looks like the Blaser catriges are starting to grain some momentum and with good reason.
It was a good read although I found the reported velocity figures to be very mild. (or maybe I am running the 7 hot.!)

For those interested in the 7mm Blaser, I had a bit of time on my hands and found myself self at the reloading bench thinking about loading a mono into the 7BM.
I picked up a packet of barnes 145lrx and couldn't help but notice that behind the ballistic tip was quite a wide diameter hollow point.
Previously I have had great success with the TTSX 120 in a 7RM @3330 fps, it was a fantastic load zeroed at 300 yards and just point and shoot out to 400ish, it was a very impressive hunting round that I had taken 20 ish deer and 4 pigs with.
It got me wondering if I could get a flat shooting laser load going with the lrx in the 7BM.
3 loads later using rl22 and working up in 1 grain increments to find pressure then backed off wee bit a loaded up 3 rounds to run over the chrony. It was a blustery day do I didn't expect a great grouping but 3 shots easily achieved 0.5 moa and an average fps of 3411!!
Looking forward to getting out and zapping a big red now.
Anyway I thought 7BM fans may be interested in that load.
Cheers G