Thread: 7mm PRC

Be interesting to see what platforms chamber it. Looks very impressive though, hard to beat 7mm’s. Would love to see a few factory offerings that are reliably available for it. I’d say it will take a couple years to get a solid and reliable place in nz markets

Does not do anything that the 7mm Blaser mag doesn’t already offer. Hornady marketing hype.

Brass and die availability will be the only plus

Originally Posted by wayno

Wonder when we find out when we will see any ?

Apparently Hornady factory ammo early next year, and Hardys are taking orders for their rifles ( will also have dies and components available to rifle purchasers).

Originally Posted by chainsaw

Does not do anything that the 7mm Blaser mag doesn’t already offer. Hornady marketing hype.

The best part of the 7mm PRC is it will do what the Blaser mag does but we will see more than one brand of brass, dies etc as no doubt it will end up like the other two PRC's with being able to get Lapua, ADG, Norma brass also and even factory ammo for those that want it.

Originally Posted by Nick-D

The trend and best use case for magnums is long heavy for caliber bullets. In 7mm this is 180's. This is right at the edge of magazine length for a S/A. Combine this with a very fat case to get enough powder in to the short magazine and you have a cartridge that needs to be individually tuned for feeding, and even then can be unreliable. Not ideal in a factory chambering.

The long action makes way more sense imo. Better form factor for feeding, way more mag space and only a small sacrifice of weight/length.

These new cartridges are less about making something new and more about improving on an existing formula, then making it readily available with a bit of good old fashioned marketing.

Cant argue with your logic, the only counter point would be the better inherent accuracy of the short fat type cases

This is a 30-06 length cartridge (OAL 3.340”) with base the same as 300WSM ( 0.535”).
So it not a modernised 7mm Rem Mag. Wont match its ballistics but it doesn't need a H&H sized action.
A solid step up from 284win and the WSMs and SAUMs. An extra half inch of case will go a long way.
This could position itself as a grunty all rounder for NZ hunting.
Are any factory actions made for this combination of bolt face and length yet ?

Originally Posted by Bagheera

This is a 30-06 length cartridge (OAL 3.340”) with base the same as 300WSM ( 0.535”).
So it not a modernised 7mm Rem Mag. Wont match its ballistics but it doesn't need a H&H sized action.
A solid step up from 284win and the WSMs and SAUMs. An extra half inch of case will go a long way.
This could position itself as a grunty all rounder for NZ hunting.
Are any factory actions made for this combination of bolt face and length yet ?

It should better the ballistics can a rem mag push a 180 3000fps out of a 24” tube? I suppose it probably can with the right combo I ran 175s pretty fast once but it was way over pressure cases were one and done I typically used the 162amax and 2225 for 3030fps

I’m also not sure about that action bolt face combo but these designs more have standard mag box’s in mind no actually action legnth I thought no one’s ever moaning about action legnth being to short but mag box’s continue to let people down . Will make it a hit on a factory magnum action with a standard magnum mag box seated way out

Cool, there will be some REM Mags & WSM’s coming up for sale here soon

3000fps seems optimistic

@SPEARONZ That more or less matches the blaser mag powder charge vs velocity With rl26 so I’d believe it the blaser mag was a little faster though I ran 67 or 68gns can’t remember for 3060fps with 180 vld and eldm with a 26” tube and I believe this is designed around a 24” tube like the 7LRM 180s at 3000 was the goal

Bang on @Kelton. My BM running 180VLDs with 67-68gn RL26 for 3050fps from 26in bbl . And just north of 3100fps with RL26 & 175ELDx. Case capacities must be very similar. I got a decent supply of BM brass but one wonders if the PRC case can be re-sized or fire formed to BM ?

Even with the magic of Hornady Hype, I doubt it will overtake the 7 Rem Mag...

Funny how Hornady's offerings, even before the 6.5 CM, have basically been, do what Remington did, but change it a little so people will need new rifles/brass/dies/barrels

Almost as if Remington had competent engineers but shitty management... who would have thought!

I can see the attraction of 7mm prc.

But I think it's marketing hype and I'd be alot happier if companies started making more projectiles, cases etc etc of what we already have calibre wise than bringing out new whizbang calibres that existing calibres already fulfill the role of.


The one calibre that has however caught my eye is the 277 sig fury and how cases are made up of multiple metals. That has got my interest indeed