- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
If you handload, pick a lighter bullet for your 7 Mag, and load it to the same velocity as the bullet you normally shoot.
For example a 175 gr bullet with a MV of 2900 FPS (61.0 grs powder), generates 25 ft/lbs of recoil in an 8 lb. 7 mm Remington Magnum rifle. A 150 gr. bullet loaded to 2900 FPS (52.0 grs powder) is down to 18 Ft/lbs of recoil in the same rifle. Reducing velocity of the 150 gr bullet to 2700 FPS (45.0 grs of powder) reduces recoil to 15 ft/lbs, without loosing the ability to kill an elk.
These figures should not be used as loading data! These powder weights they were chosen to calculate the recoil of each bullet weight in this cartridge, and for that reason I have not identified the powders.
For example a 175 gr bullet with a MV of 2900 FPS (61.0 grs powder), generates 25 ft/lbs of recoil in an 8 lb. 7 mm Remington Magnum rifle. A 150 gr. bullet loaded to 2900 FPS (52.0 grs powder) is down to 18 Ft/lbs of recoil in the same rifle. Reducing velocity of the 150 gr bullet to 2700 FPS (45.0 grs of powder) reduces recoil to 15 ft/lbs, without loosing the ability to kill an elk.
These figures should not be used as loading data! These powder weights they were chosen to calculate the recoil of each bullet weight in this cartridge, and for that reason I have not identified the powders.
, I have one of those little pea shooters myself, the Ti version, haven't shot anything but the 140 TSX in it either.........so I guess if load the same bullet to 3150 out of my 280AI, I'd be overgunned for elk eh?
