Downloading 7PRC?

adk hunter said:
My buddy has a 7RM. What the 7PRC wants to twin with. Terrible choice!
Don't be the guy who over guns his kid and scares them out of the field.
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YUP,. THIS,.. ^^^^
Have any of You guys, EVER Wondered, WHY, the 6.5 Creedmoor IS,.. SO,.. Popular ???
Women and Kids,.. LOVE IT as, a "Step Up", Cartridge as would be, a 7MM-08 "Braked" with,.. 120 to 150's, in it.
A Braked, 7-08 with, a 150 gr. ELD-X stuffed in it, would be, a good Elk load
 
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Trying to "Down Load" a Big, Long, Cartridge case with, TOO LOW of, a Velocity, could be, asking for,. TROUBLE !
Ever Hear of,. DETONATION "Blow Up's" ( FROM, Reverse, Powder Burn ), IT,.. "Happens" !
"Could Be", a BAD,. "Idea", WITHOUT,.. "Good",.. SAFE, Minimum charge, Load Data !
 
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Good said:
Wow, great encouragement. Yeah, she's 90+lbs and pretty tough.

Remind me again why RSAUM over WSM?
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There's hardly any difference between the 7prc and 7wsm powder capacity. I'm a saum guy. It's a proven accurate tac driver a long ways away.

If she's use to guns then a 7saum braked is easy. Like a 243 win unbraked. Trust me she will be fine with it. I take kids hunting all the time other than my own and the inexperienced shooters I will put them in like a 6mm Creedmoor for deer. Foe elk a different story. You can load both way down to even 7mm-08 levels. Shooting lighter bullets will reduce the recoil quite a bit but then I would consider shooting like a 143 hammer bullet or a better constructed light bullet to reduce the recoil. Really my light weight kiddo handles it no problem. His buddies were over one day and they wanted to shoot so his two friends shot I bet 8 or 10 rounds a piece hitting 300 no problem and they don't shoot much. Each of their first shot they did both miss. But after they figured out it wasn't bad they hammered it every shot. Good luck. Don't let it scare ya.
 
Please note the starting loads recommended by Hodgdon. Very easily done and safe. Just don't go nuts lowering below that like trying to reach anything lower......then that's a different story and you can have a detonation effect because the volume of powder is so low that the powder can ignite first in front...then back then create an enormous amount of pressure leading to firearm failures, physical harm, lodged bullets, etc. and that is what Idaho Lefty is warning you about. Hodgdon use to have a powder they called Trailboss used in pistols. They may still have it I don't know. But it was a powder designed for very low velocity loads without the scare of detonations.



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I started my daughter on a tikka t3x compact 7mm-08. That thing smacked pretty hard even with light loads. We ended up getting rid of it and she has since killed many elk, deer, and some antelope over the past 5 years with a braked 7mm rem mag shooting moderate-power loads. It's a little heavier, but she won't be shooting without some kind of rest anyway. We always make sure to have the ear protection handy and she enjoys shooting that rifle much more over the light weight. She has also shot a couple of elk with my 300 win - full power 210 berger vld loads. Pretty much everything is shot prone or while sitting with a harris bipod. She never says anything about recoil. She's 16 now and maybe 120 lbs.

7 RM is versatile and easy to load for. I guess I'm old fashioned. I like the old-reliables.
 
trout004 said:
I started my daughter on a tikka t3x compact 7mm-08. That thing smacked pretty hard even with light loads. We ended up getting rid of it and she has since killed many elk, deer, and some antelope over the past 5 years with a braked 7mm rem mag shooting moderate-power loads. It's a little heavier, but she won't be shooting without some kind of rest anyway. We always make sure to have the ear protection handy and she enjoys shooting that rifle much more over the light weight. She has also shot a couple of elk with my 300 win - full power 210 berger vld loads. Pretty much everything is shot prone or while sitting with a harris bipod. She never says anything about recoil. She's 16 now and maybe 120 lbs.

7 RM is versatile and easy to load for. I guess I'm old fashioned. I like the old-reliables.
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Tikkas have a lot of recoil because of that stock design. Amazing the difference when you drop a tikka in an AG composite alpine hunter.
 
If it were me - and it's not, but if it was, my first priority would be to find a platform (stock angle, length of pull, etc) that fit her properly. After that problem was solved, then I'd worry about the chambering. Set her up with a platform that fits and you'll likely have a shooting/hunting partner for a long time. Set her up with something that kicks the snot out of her and you might end up dropping her off at the mall or her new boyfriend's house on your way to the range...
 
Ucsdryder said:
Tikkas have a lot of recoil because of that stock design. Amazing the difference when you drop a tikka in an AG composite alpine hunter.
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Yeah, you probably have a good point there about the stock design. She is shooting a tikka veil now with a TI pro 4-port brake and recoil is honestly next to nothing shooting 162 eldx. I do have an AG Alpine on my Defiance build and love it.

To emphasize my point though, I wouldn't hesitate to go 7PRC. Load with some light bullets with a moderate charge, and add a brake or a can, and have some fun hauling pack-fulls of meat that weigh more than you kid.
 
got 7 PRC so I could have a 7-08( one of my favs) and a 7 mag (less favorite) all in one gun.
Figure on loading 150s for WT and 175s for western big stuff.
Sticking with recipes straight from manual for now.
Range work ahead.
 

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