Thread: 7mm Rem Mag Reloading troubles...

Just bought a 7mm RM t3x. How'd you end up going @Dev?

Hi there, Just been down this track with my 7mm RM which I bought 2nd hand, Tikka T3x Lite ss, not the fluted barrel model. It came with what I am told was a cracker load using the 180 Berger Hybrids, but quite slow at 2780 (or similar), havent tried them as I wanted a lighter load. Sooo started with RL26 and 150Eldx, 0.75 on a good day, ok but wanted better, 150 Nosler partitions were also good at 0.65 odd. I found RL26 a little inconsistent over the chronograph, so switched to RL22 which showed more consistency.150 Berger classic hunter showed some promise at about 0.5/0.6 with a load of 67.5 and 3155fps (START WELL BELOW THIS AND WORK UP IN YOUR RIFLE IF YOU TRY THIS LOAD). From there I tweaked seating depth 5 thou at a time and hit the sweet spot. This is a mag load and I believe the tikkas are built that true that touching the lands is not a must to get the most accurate load. Just my 2 cents worth. Another thing that really tidied my groups up (by about 0.3/0.4) was shooting technique. I now shoot prone over a Bipod with spiked feet. This is a good Youtube vid on a good technique that may help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7rdoJNufk

THAT IS 67 GRAINS ABOVE (NOT 67.5). JUST REALISED MY MISTAKE WHEN READING THE TARGET> START WELL BELOW THIS AND WORK UP!