Thread: Pet Loads for the 7 mm SAUM Please.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings Tahr and Chainsaw,
Thanks for your suggestions Tahr. I will certainly look at Hybrid 100V and RL26 or RL23 if I can't, as seems likely, get up to a reasonable velocity with AR2217 and AR2213SC. I'm not looking for that last erosive foot per second, just a sound load at approaching factory velocity.
While I have not measured the twist I suspect it is the standard 1:9 or 1:9.25 used in the .280 and 7 mm Rem mag. I was a little leery of going to the 160 plus grains as I had found the 162 grain Amax less accurate than the lighter pills. This model Sendero is on the short 700 action and the max COAL is about 71 mm. I am not hard and fast on having the loads fit in the mag as long as I can some understudy loads that do. I think I will start with some 150 grain ELDX and pair them with some 150 grain Core-lokt projectiles. Long term arthritis and advancing are has limited my mobility and flexibility so my long range capability won't be limited by a lower B.C. of the projectile.
Many thanks,
Grandpamac.

@GWH is in the Bay and he has a lot of experience with this caliber.

Originally Posted by Tahr

@GWH is in the Bay and he has a lot of experience with this caliber.

Sorry missed this thread, havnt been on the forum as much of late.
@grandpamac I'll send you a pm, I've always used 2217 in my 7mm SAUM with good results, but have recently started testing with Re26.