Thread: Sako 7mm rem mag and 168vlds

Originally Posted by Kelton

If its anything like that one of ours itll want abit of fouling bro if your half moa now chrony it give it to him tell him to start thrashing it he probably cant shot half noa anyway so no stress

yea will do mate only had 20 or so bombs through it now

Originally Posted by Jit

I had good results with 168s in Norma brass with 72g of 2217 using federal mag primers.
In my past RMs.

I also used Berger classic hunters with the same load. For game I anneal VLDs as per Nathan Foster method. This is In case a shot presents itself at the 2000fps range. And you want more reliable expansion. I used them to great effect to 250m bang flop. And match accuracy.

But
Shot a stag at 620m last year, but using ELDs. I would Have been worried about the VLD at the long range unless bone was struck.
Just my 2c

I anneal the 168’s for my SAUM, and have found they performed well. I understood they should open up better at longer ranges/lower impact velocity after annealing being softer?
As a side note, I load them to mag fit in the model 7, so the jump must be quite big, and they shoot into 1/2”, both when it had a 22” and now a 17 1/2” barrel. 180’s in my practical also have a 60thou jump and are very accurate, so maybe try a big jump and see what happens?
Cheers

They sweet as is shot a shit tonne of animals out past 700m with the 168vld and 180vlds without annealing. These 2 were shot couple days ago at 680m and 714m not a worry, ran 4 or 5 meters. 2 stags last week one at 610m another at 350 dead on their feet.
But yea hopefully have another play with the 7mm this weekend, last group was .3 moa so seems promising and that was with 70grns 2225.

Shit the marae must be loving you shag iv never scene so many retrieved animals from you in all the years anyone would think you were eating it HHO

Originally Posted by jono7

I anneal the 168’s for my SAUM, and have found they performed well. I understood they should open up better at longer ranges/lower impact velocity after annealing being softer?
As a side note, I load them to mag fit in the model 7, so the jump must be quite big, and they shoot into 1/2”, both when it had a 22” and now a 17 1/2” barrel. 180’s in my practical also have a 60thou jump and are very accurate, so maybe try a big jump and see what happens?
Cheers

Hell big job jono