Thread: Pet Loads for the 7 mm SAUM Please.

Greetings All,
I have just started some more load development for my 7 mm SAUM that has been a safe queen for rather too long.

The rifle is a Remington 700 Sendero aquired in 2004. Remington 150 grain factory loads shoot really well and deliver around 3,070 feet per second. Handloads to date using the 150 grain Remington Core-lokt projectiles have produced equal accuracy but slightly less velocity with AR 2217 and Hodgdon max load of 68 grains. Hornady 162 grain Amax projectiles were also tried but did not produce the same level of accuracy.
In the time the rifle has been confined to barracks a whole bunch off sexy new projectiles including the 150 grain Hornady ELDX so I am keen to try some of these. The 150 grain Core-lokt projectiles required some compression of the powder so longer projectiles will likely require more compression that I would be comfortable with so a faster or denser powder might be needed. Lower than those listed in the Hodgdon data for my initial loads with AR2213SC may have been due to the use of Winchester WLR primers, now changed to Federal 215 GM.

I am still rounding up all the data I can, mostly on line data from powder and projectile companies and thought I would ask if those 7 mm SAUM users on the Forum if they would be prepared to share their Pet Loads.

Any thoughts please,
Regards Grandpamac.