Thread: Too fast and dangerous? 7mm Rem Mag, 180gr ELD-M, RL26

Originally Posted by Tentman

Hmmmm - Running this in Quickload (without all the variables solved esp case capacity) it says your velocity with 68.0gn is around 3030 fps from your 26" barrel and pressure is in the vicinity of 68,000 - 70,000psi. SAAMI limit for this cartridge is 61,000 so I'd say you are pushing the limits. A lot of loads posted on forums analyse to a similar or greater level of pressure - but you are betting that the very much improved contemporary manufacturing processes for every component save you from a catastrophic failure.

I'm with @grandpamac that its not real sensible to be operating at that sort of level - one little element in the process goes wrong and the results range from a hell of a fright to just about dead.

Hi Tentman, thanks so much for this input. Could you please send me the quickload results you got, I would be real keen to see what it says.
It makes me a bit nervous the Hornady are publishing load data of 67.3gr as the max.
https://press.hornady.com/assets/sit...-eld-match.pdf