130 gr speer hot cor

Anyone have a load for this bullet in 7MMSTW?

I killed a couple deer last year with a 120 gr TTSX, running just over 3800 fps out of my STW'S, over my magneto chrono got 3800 FPS out of my 700 DM and just shy of 3900 FPS out of my sendero. Only a couple shots at range and 3 at deer. All bang flopped out to 343 yards.

I prefer to shoot 160 gr weight range of bullets. Bought a box of the Speer 130 for my 7MM-08 and thought I might load a couple for STW if I could find a load. Can't find any published data.

This is all I could find.

You could maybe interpolate from the upper end of their 145grn data:

Here are some load data. The Sierra is a 130grn and the Hornady is for 139grn. Both pics are max loads. So start a couple grains lower and work up. I will caution that Hornady max loads can be hot.

that would be a screamer for sure, be curious if it holds up in the event of close range shot?

txaggie1 said:

that would be a screamer for sure, be curious if it holds up in the event of close range shot?

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I watched a hunting show on TV one time. This guy went brown bear hunt with no on Kodiak island. He carried a 30-378 Wearherby using a 130grn TSX. His velocity was somewhere north of 4K fps. He shot a big ole bruin and it just flopped and done. Read a book about some guy that used a 220 swift exclusively for all hunting in PA. Using a 52 or 55 grain bullet at 3500-3800fps produced the same results. I'm convinced that speed is just as much a factor in quick kills as slow heavy bullets.

Thanks for the replies. Believe I will work with RL-22. Both my STW's love RL-22. Still waiting on gun to be shipped back from Jarrett Rifles. They said 3 to 4 weeks. Just so long it gets here before November.

liltank said:

I watched a hunting show on TV one time. This guy went brown bear hunt with no on Kodiak island. He carried a 30-378 Wearherby using a 130grn TSX. His velocity was somewhere north of 4K fps. He shot a big ole bruin and it just flopped and done. Read a book about some guy that used a 220 swift exclusively for all hunting in PA. Using a 52 or 55 grain bullet at 3500-3800fps produced the same results. I'm convinced that speed is just as much a factor in quick kills as slow heavy bullets.

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I have used the old Speer HotCors for years in 30 caliber rifles. In my experience they are extremely accurate but dead soft bullets. They have a tendency to separate from the jacket and fragment to pieces over 2900 fps impact so throwing them downrange at close to 4k will certainly be interesting. They will likely deliver a beautiful mushroom past 500 yards. 50 yards might be a mess.

I shot 120g Nosler ballistic tips and TTSX at 3850+ using IMR 7828 and R#22, fed 215s in Winchester cases, with accuracy being sub 3/8" groups in 25.5" barrels with short freebore.
My brother still has two of these short freebore barrels, one was a new Rem 7 Mag re chamber and the other is a 27" Pac Nor three groove.

We have no experience with the 130g Hot core in the 7 STW.

A cousin has shot nothing but Nosler 140g C/T bullets in his 7 STW, with no failures, massive load of IMR 7828 with 215s, using Win brass.

Speed kills with proper shot placement. We dress all our deer as a family. The internals of deer shot with these extremely high velocity loads are simply a blended mess. I have even shot deer in the back of the rib cage for effect, and they collapse at bullet impact.

Of course, if you like to eat right up to the hole, this kind of outfit is not your cup of tea. We want them dead in their tracks, period.

Several friends here that think the same way are shooting the 6 Gibbs with some very impressive results.

I have killed a few hundred deer with stw's.

Before I reloaded I shot the factory Remington 140 gr core lokt. They drop deer in their tracks but they make a mess.

Started reloading right after I got my STW in the late 1990's. Shot 140 nosler bt's for a couple years, killed a pile of deer. Where I live the limit has been 3 does a day for many years, where I hunt in KY there is no limit on does and I have assisted and do assist in culling does, I have been blessed in being able to kill a bunch of deer and still get to. If the core lokt's were destructive the ballistic tips were worse. It was a mess, I shot a doe about 140 yards behind the shoulder and exited in back of the other shoulder. When I gutted her, you would have swore I gut shot her.

I went to accubonds,, 140's, then 160's. In my experience, the accubonds perform great, exit no matter the distance and drop a deer in its tracks.

I have shot a good number of deer with a-frames, partitions, and tsx bullets. They perform great, but most of the deer run 40 to 50 yards, a couple have ran over 100 yards. One doe I shot with a partition at just under 100 yards, ran close to 200 yards across a cow pasture and into a woodlot about 30 yards. When my brother and me walked up to her, an entire lung was hanging out the exit hole, basically the whole lung. She still ran over 200 yards and we measured with a rangefinder.

For the 130 hot-cors, just wanted to give them a try on one of my doe killing hunts this year. I killed a couple with 120 TTSX (3800FPS out one stw and just under 3900 FPS out of the other) last year and they dropped deer in their tracks. The 8 pointer I killed at 343 yards dropped, never even flinched that I could see, nice buck, dressed 145 lbs.

I get to hunt with several different means, archery (traditional and compound), muzzleloader (cva accura and flintlock), savage 220, and not all I use, but 26 nosler, 7mm-08, 30-30, 6.5 creedmor and the 7MMSTW is my favorite and my go to.

I hunt almost all of the time when using my STW's with 160 accubonds and killed a few with LRAB's (168 and 175) last couple years and they have performed great also.

Hornady has load data for 120gr and 139gr, but no 130gr.

I run 140's out of mine right now, Nosler BT's at 3535fps.
This will be the first year to hunt with it. Hopefully they do bang flops