7 mag bullet weights

[diamond10x]

Looking for some input from you gunsmith guys again. What grain bullets do y'all shoot out of your 7 mags? I'm gonna be getting one here soon and intend on shooting the max bullet weight it can handle probably, so that i can get the best longer range energy out of it. What do you guys load and how far most of y'all shoot?

[TravisMears.com]

Dad and I have been shooting 150 grain Boat Tail ballistic hand loads for years. It has put down power and shoots great on your long ditance shots. Killed 2 muleys over 300 yards this weekend in Nebraska

[tmurray]

One of the guys I used to hunt with hand loaded and tuned his 7 and 139 gr was his favorite. I shoot factory loads of 165 gr extremely accurate, in fact last year a rang a 4" gong at 300 yds with it.

[Coach W]

150's out of mine

[Free2Hunt]

mine likes the 165 grain. Don't do much long range, but I took the backside of a hogs head completly off at about 75 yards

[Huntin Addict]

Mine likes 165gr.

[Rather_B_Fishin]

Best thing to do is get you a few different weights of bullets and see what your gun likes. If you hand load maybe you can find someone who as a few of a each grain bullet and work some loads up vs buying a box of 50 and not being able to use them.

[Mayhem]

150's for me, but i shoot a 7mm wsm.

[Coach W]

Best thing to do is get you a few different weights of bullets and see what your gun likes. If you hand load maybe you can find someone who as a few of a each grain bullet and work some loads up vs buying a box of 50 and not being able to use them.

**** Where you getting boxes of 50?

[segbert]

168 Berger VLD's

[cattlelackranch]

I think this depends on the twist rate of your barrel as to what grain it will shoot best. Or at least give you a good starting point. You can determine the twist rate by inserting a cleaning rod with a brush, mark the rod where it enters, mark 12" up the rod. Push the rod in and count the revolutions until you hit the other marked spot on the rod. This will give you your twist rate. Example if the rod turns 10 times then you have a 10:1 barrel. Then you can look up the bullet manufacturer of what you want to shoot and they will give you an ideal twist rate for that weight bullet.

[chief longshaft]

I handload a 175 gr partition with max load its funny and you better hang.

[Rather_B_Fishin]

**** Where you getting boxes of 50?

From the gettin place ! Lol I'm talkin about the bullets coach not ammo! Gees some peoples kids I swear! Lol jk

[Farmdog]

the man I guided last weekend shot a nilgai bull at just over three hundred yards with a 7 mag using a 140 grain bullett...We never found blood and the animal managed to run about 80 yards...he made a solid shot though and I was confident we could find it...just before that I had him on the biggest, blueist bull ever standing at an estimated 120 yards...good thing he froze and couldnt get the shot off or we would still be there trying to load it

[Coach W]

From the gettin place ! Lol I'm talkin about the bullets coach not ammo! Gees some peoples kids I swear! Lol jk

Ya i figured... It was still funny though!

My 7mag is very picky in what it likes to shoot... It does like a dirty barrel though... Took a bit to figure that out. ...

And when you change Scopes make sure you remember to tighten the ring screws... Its shoots god aweful if you put them in there, get side tracked and then set it back in the safe... Theoretically speaking of course... No way id be that scatter brained...