7mm08 appreciation thread

[7mm tragic]

Greetings All,
Although I have never actually owned a 7mm-08 I have worked with a few. The first, shortly after introduction, was throwing fliers with the then go to powder W760. A bit of testing with the Dupont IMR4064 and IMR4895 I had on hand gave more consistent groups. Looking back on my loads they are all above current book max but were probably max at the time. More recently AR2208 was used in a different 7mm-08 with good results. Earlier this year my son leant me his target 7mm-08 for my F Class shooting. 6 rounds were used getting a rough zero and initial load development and a further 6 to get a final load using AR2206H. 2 more were used to get a 600 yard zero using a target at 200 metres marked with the calculated point of impact for 600 yards (550 metres). Job done.
All of this gives me the impression that the 7mm-08 is an easy cartridge to load for. Had I bought my first centre fire rifle just a few years later it might have been a 7mm-08 rather than a .308W.
Regards Grandpamac.

What flavor of projectile are you using? My M70 doesn't seem to like 140's so I'm trying to get mine to group 162 Eldm's. I'm not quite where I want to be and was considering a different powder

Cheers,