Four+ rifles chambered with the zero freebore reamer in 7 STW, two rem Sendero re chambers, one Pac Nor 11T, all shoot tiny groups with the 140g C/T bullet and several Hart 9T shooting the 120g Nosler Solid base. We have never had a bullet failure.
I never shot any deer with the 120g Nosler ballistic tip or the 120g Barnes TTSX in the 7 STW. In the beginning, all we used was the 120g Nosler Solid base lead tip, I have only worked up a load for the 120g Ballistic tip and TTSX. It was simply amazing at the accuracy of the 120g Barnes ttsx, jumping .050 from the lands, with IMR 7828 and R#22. Groups were simply opening up a single bullet hole with no paper in between the bullets, group after group after group with the hotter the load, the better it shot!
When Lane Simpson came out with the 7 STW in Handloader magazine back around 1989, I ordered a reamer. There was no brass at all for the 7 STW. We formed brass while working up loads with R#22 with Nosler 120g Solid Base bullets.
While fire forming with 8 Rem mag brass and R#22, we started getting 1/2" accuracy around 3750 fps, and as the velocity went up to 3850, the accuracy just kept getting better. A gunsmith, Joe Wagner in Los Angles chambered these rifles and also installed one of his muzzle breaks on the barrel. We wanted to save our primer pockets, so we held the velocity to 3800, hunting while we were fire-forming the brass, why not? Those 120g Nosler Solid Base lead tip bullets sure do a job on deer, never a failure.
We sat up a tree stand, on a Power Line, and put out a great food plot for the deer exactly 500 yards from the tree stand, we killed many deer out of that stand with our 7 STW's. The scopes on our rifles at the time was the Burris black diamond 8x32, and we had the dial marked for the yardage. By this time, brother and I have been shooting the 140g C/T bullet exclusively. Brother killed a 365 lb white tail in Kansas at 550 yards, rattled in, he flopped at the bullet impact.
I never shot any deer with the 120g Nosler ballistic tip or the 120g Barnes TTSX in the 7 STW. In the beginning, all we used was the 120g Nosler Solid base lead tip, I have only worked up a load for the 120g Ballistic tip and TTSX. It was simply amazing at the accuracy of the 120g Barnes ttsx, jumping .050 from the lands, with IMR 7828 and R#22. Groups were simply opening up a single bullet hole with no paper in between the bullets, group after group after group with the hotter the load, the better it shot!
When Lane Simpson came out with the 7 STW in Handloader magazine back around 1989, I ordered a reamer. There was no brass at all for the 7 STW. We formed brass while working up loads with R#22 with Nosler 120g Solid Base bullets.
While fire forming with 8 Rem mag brass and R#22, we started getting 1/2" accuracy around 3750 fps, and as the velocity went up to 3850, the accuracy just kept getting better. A gunsmith, Joe Wagner in Los Angles chambered these rifles and also installed one of his muzzle breaks on the barrel. We wanted to save our primer pockets, so we held the velocity to 3800, hunting while we were fire-forming the brass, why not? Those 120g Nosler Solid Base lead tip bullets sure do a job on deer, never a failure.
We sat up a tree stand, on a Power Line, and put out a great food plot for the deer exactly 500 yards from the tree stand, we killed many deer out of that stand with our 7 STW's. The scopes on our rifles at the time was the Burris black diamond 8x32, and we had the dial marked for the yardage. By this time, brother and I have been shooting the 140g C/T bullet exclusively. Brother killed a 365 lb white tail in Kansas at 550 yards, rattled in, he flopped at the bullet impact.
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