Proud of her as those were her first real shots thru a high power rifle. Me, I'm happier than a pig in slop. It's been a real battle, magnified by my ignorance of rifles and reloading.
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Proud of her as those were her first real shots thru a high power rifle. Me, I'm happier than a pig in slop. It's been a real battle, magnified by my ignorance of rifles and reloading.
etisll40
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Nice shooting, I think I'll order some 175 Accubond Long range. Awesome stats on that bullet. Next weekend whitetail open here. Yeah!
RobertB
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I cant wait to try em out. I use the factory 160 Accubond load in mine with great accuracy. It's one of a few guns I have where the factory load is just fine. I've shot mine out to 1k with great results and saw these new LR accubonds. I sure hope they put them out ina factory load that shoots as good as what I getting.
The numbers on em look really promising and if mag feeding is no issue and they perform like the old ones they will sell em no problem.
I'm loving my STW
The numbers on em look really promising and if mag feeding is no issue and they perform like the old ones they will sell em no problem.
I'm loving my STW
I finely got my 7mm stw load down in the teens a extreme spread of 19 and a sd of 6 . bye moveing the seating depth . I think some fps differents comes from my neck tension it seams to be different when I seating bullets I did anneal brass and I just trying out stm media to see if it cleans the in side of the brass just to see if it makes a differents . just used the stm media today for first time it does a great job on the out side of some cases that I found in a bucket of junk I just whated to try it out to see how good it did it did good but on the in side 3 hr was not enough to make it as shinney as the out side
Roll-Yur-Own
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7 STW is my absolute favorite caliber. I relate all the "but it has a belt" comments I get to a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue scotch....."Its not a single malt".......Whatever, great is great.
What North American game can't be taken with the stw? Maybe a coastal brown bear?
I sold my first stw - McMillian rem hunter stock, 26" #5 Krieger, trued rem 700 bdl action. I regret it ever since.
My current is a 700 adl action trued, 26" #6 lilja, bell & Carlson stock. I bought the barrel used 5 years earlier, bought a used ADL for $250 and bdl bottom metal. Gun shoots sub 1/2 moa. It likes 156 cauterucios with 80 grains of retumbo.
Saturday is our opening day of rifle and I hope to drop a nice whitetail.
What North American game can't be taken with the stw? Maybe a coastal brown bear?
I sold my first stw - McMillian rem hunter stock, 26" #5 Krieger, trued rem 700 bdl action. I regret it ever since.
My current is a 700 adl action trued, 26" #6 lilja, bell & Carlson stock. I bought the barrel used 5 years earlier, bought a used ADL for $250 and bdl bottom metal. Gun shoots sub 1/2 moa. It likes 156 cauterucios with 80 grains of retumbo.
Saturday is our opening day of rifle and I hope to drop a nice whitetail.
WildRose
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We all tend to suffer those afflictions when starting out. Look on the bright side, you are saving her from them. I had a great mentor, the same guy that coached me and gave me the confidence to shoot beyond 100yds, who helped me when I started reloading but I still made more than my own fair share of mistakes.
Congrats again.
JoeS1044
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Hello Guys,
I'm new to the site and have been looking around for awhile now for an amazing shooting round and I'm leaning towards the 7stw. My question for you guys is am I better off trying to find one factory produced since I sell firearms as my job or will it be easier to have a custom firearm built. Or another option would be buying a rifle in 7mag and rechamber it. I was wondering how you guys felt about these options and what may be the best route for me thanks!
I love some of the setups you guys have I've been looking through the previous pages.
I'm new to the site and have been looking around for awhile now for an amazing shooting round and I'm leaning towards the 7stw. My question for you guys is am I better off trying to find one factory produced since I sell firearms as my job or will it be easier to have a custom firearm built. Or another option would be buying a rifle in 7mag and rechamber it. I was wondering how you guys felt about these options and what may be the best route for me thanks!
I love some of the setups you guys have I've been looking through the previous pages.
RobertB
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Forgot to post my setup:
Rem 700 trued & glass bedded
26"shilen bbl heavy spotted
Vias break
H-S Precision stock
Rem 40x trigger
Dnz one piece base/rings
Bushnell elite 4200 6-24 mildot scope
I have a hamdload but now I just shoot factory nosler 160 ab in it. Shoots well out to 1k wheeeni stopped shooting it. At 0'DA I think its about 21 moa to 1k yds.
Gun is so powerful flat and light but has no kick to it. Its no problem for me or girlfriend to shoot. Bias does well.
Rem 700 trued & glass bedded
26"shilen bbl heavy spotted
Vias break
H-S Precision stock
Rem 40x trigger
Dnz one piece base/rings
Bushnell elite 4200 6-24 mildot scope
I have a hamdload but now I just shoot factory nosler 160 ab in it. Shoots well out to 1k wheeeni stopped shooting it. At 0'DA I think its about 21 moa to 1k yds.
Gun is so powerful flat and light but has no kick to it. Its no problem for me or girlfriend to shoot. Bias does well.
Catbird
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It all depends on how much you wish to invest.
I found a used Sendero that was in good shape to get me started.I can improve on that over time as I need without the big cost of a custom up front.
I would think how you intend to use it would be a factor.
Whatever you do it is a great caliber to own.
Check out RedHawk Rifles for an affordable semi-custom. Mine really shoots and I've not heard anyone say theirs shot over 1/2 MOA.
JoeS1044
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I own some Tikka T3 rifles and they are the best shooting smoothest actions for a factory gun imo and thats one reason I was considering buying one in 7mag and having it recharmbered so I can still have the action and the accuracy of a Tikka
gamehawker
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Well think I've got a load figured out this deer season for one of my twin Remington 700 Sendero SF 7mm STWs.
One of the twin Senderos really likes 140 grain bullets and I used it last year with a 140 grain Nosler Accubond and shot a deer in the neck at 230 yards DRT.
I wanted the other twin Sendero to eat this year and it likes 160 grain plus bullets.
So I was working a load up for that one.
Well I was up in West Virginia at my Parent's home this weekend and my Pop has a shooting lane to 300 yards and further.
Below is a 300 yard shot 3 shot group with a 168 grain VLD Matrix bullet / H1000 powder.
The grouping measures .729
The velocity averaged 3,192 fps.
I told my Pop I want to shoot a deer right below the ear at a 280 yard set-up by his treestand this year. And with this load I think I can do it!
One of the twin Senderos really likes 140 grain bullets and I used it last year with a 140 grain Nosler Accubond and shot a deer in the neck at 230 yards DRT.
I wanted the other twin Sendero to eat this year and it likes 160 grain plus bullets.
So I was working a load up for that one.
Well I was up in West Virginia at my Parent's home this weekend and my Pop has a shooting lane to 300 yards and further.
Below is a 300 yard shot 3 shot group with a 168 grain VLD Matrix bullet / H1000 powder.
The grouping measures .729
The velocity averaged 3,192 fps.
I told my Pop I want to shoot a deer right below the ear at a 280 yard set-up by his treestand this year. And with this load I think I can do it!
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Lefty7mmstw
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Sorry, you are out of luck with the stw on the t-3 action. The mags won't take the 7stw as it is too long. The highest performing 7mm's you can put in a t3 are either the 7 roy or the 7-300win. There may be other issues but the mag is a pretty big one. I've got a Tikka t-3 ss lh in 270; great rifle but it suffers from the same issues with action length as the ruger 77.
