bladeracer wrote:Rod_outbak wrote:Bladeracer,
What charge do you have behind the 100gn loads for the 7mm-08?
I've some 100gn HP loads I need to test out in the next few days, but wondered what you drive the 100gn pills with.
Cheers,
Rod.
I'm running them on AR2206H, 43.5gn to 44.5gn all stay within 0.7MoA to 100m. They run 3120fps on 43.5gn up to 3220fps on 44.5gn. I prefer the 145gn HotCor SP for subsonic loads. 8.5gn of Trailboss runs them around 940fps, but drops them on the fourth holdover dot in my scope (when zeroed for the 100gn HP at 150m).
deanp100 wrote:bladeracer wrote:Into completely unknown, but tightly-packed terrain, if there's any possibility of pigs, I'd probably carry a shotgun with buck loads, but have a rifle hung at my side, probably the 7mm-08. I can drop the shotgun and bring the rifle up in seconds if I need to, and if I find I didn't need the shotgun I can break it down and toss it in my pack. Reduced loads with 100gn bullets work great on smaller game, and if I see goats, pigs or deer, I can take any of those with full-power loads at longer ranges.
Ideally though, I'd reconnoiter before going in. Use GoogleEarth to find the high spots with decent lines of site, any water catchments, trails, diggings, etc. Then get a good feel for wind direction, fill up on food and water and go exploring. Even if there's nothing in there it still sounds like a few days of good fun
It’s 2 square km. That should be good for a couple of hours.
Stix wrote:Blade...what distance they trailboss loads hit terra firma (the forth holdover dot doesnt tell us much) & what height are you shooting from...? (ie 900mm high bench/standing/prone etc..?)
Rod_outbak wrote:Thanks also for the Trailboss recipe; another project I've been thinking about... Think I have a couple of flavours of 140 & 150gn pills I can use for the subsonic loads.
Cheers,
Rod.
bladeracer wrote:Stix wrote:Blade...what distance they trailboss loads hit terra firma (the forth holdover dot doesnt tell us much) & what height are you shooting from...? (ie 900mm high bench/standing/prone etc..?)
I wasn't trying to tell you what the drop was, merely explaining why I settled on that velocity
The dot is 11.4MoA, plus 1.5MoA high for the 100gn at 100m we're looking at 14MoA drop between the two loads.
What would height matter?
I'd have to do some calculation. If you holdover 14MoA to hit the target at 100m you need to aim upwards 2.5 degrees.
If you were shooting across a still lake, one meter above the surface, I would guess the bullet will the water around the 250m mark, maybe.
If you have the rifle sitting horizontally though, I'm not sure the bullet would go much beyond 100m before touching down.