Sorry, I had forgotten about this thread. The rifle is finished. I used a Forester 7 PRC FL bushing die. I ordered a Wilsom 7 PRC inline seating die then contacted Wilson to see if they could make a 6.5 seater stem for the 7MM die. They said they couldn't, so I seated a couple of rounds and had no runout issues. I used 147 ELD's and H1000. Highest velocity achieved (with a 22" barrel) was 3150 fps with 69.2 gr H1000 which shot a .949 5 shot group with 4 into .351 and SD of 11.2. Final load is 68.2 H1000 OAL of 3.327". Velocity for 3 shots was 3099.9 ES of 1.7 and SD of .7 into .267. Loaded 50 rounds and am waiting for a buddy to get some fields cleared so we can shoot 500 to 800 yards. The barrel has 166 rounds on it, I have babied it and would like to get 800 rounds from it. I have some 156 Bergers I would like to play with. Maybe find a load in 20 rounds.
Jay Cutwright has the reamer and built my rifle. He does excellent work.
If anyone would be interested in putting a few rifle pics in this thread I could text you the pics. My Puter Fu is weak.
