Light load for 7 mm

[oldschool]

Looking for light load for my son. Shooting 120 nosler ballistic tip. cant find anything under 3000 fps. Wanting to drop to around 2500. Thx

 

[Ctpa61]

Need to know what cartridge?

 

[KChunter71]

If it’s a 7mm rem mag your going to have to handlload to 7-08 power. If your trying to reduce recoil a break and new sims butt pad will help a lot. But you will need ear protection with the break. But it helps to know what call your talking about since all you say is 7mm

 

[oldschool]

Sorry should have stated 7mm rem mag. Older Ruger already has a sims and a break. Thx

 

[fraz01]

Hodgdon has a reduced load formula for H4895, it is 40% reduced load from the max powder charge. You can find the info on it on the Hodgdon site. It is under the reference data section. I used to load 6mm Rem and 30-06 loads for my son when he was starting out. Trick may be finding a H4895 load for the 7 mag. Hodgdon may be able to help you with that.

 

[Rob5589]

How big is your son? I took a quick look and couldn't find anything that slow out of the 7 mag. You could probably back off the charge some and get to 2800 but not sure how much help that would be.
For reference, my 13 year old daughter, 5'3" and ave weight, shoots a 7/08 with a 120 at 3150 and has no issues with recoil.
I would also look into fitment. A poor fitting gun will have more perceived recoil.

 

[oldschool]

thx for all the input I will look up h4895

 

[sljensen]

For practice, just getting him used to shooting you might consider cowboy action type loads with Trail Boss powder.

 

[vermeire]

Hodgdon has a reduced load formula for H4895, it is 40% reduced load from the max powder charge. You can find the info on it on the Hodgdon site. It is under the reference data section. I used to load 6mm Rem and 30-06 loads for my son when he was starting out. Trick may be finding a H4895 load for the 7 mag. Hodgdon may be able to help you with that.

Just to clarify the recommended reduced load is a 60% of max charge. That means a 50 grain max load in the book is reduced to a 30 grain charge.

When I first read the quoted post I read it as stating a 40% of max but it does say reduces so I don't know if it was a typo, error, or just expressing the charge from the other direction than all of the Hodgdon literature does. I only post this in hopes that it prevents someone from possibly getting hurt.

 

[fraz01]

Just to clarify the recommended reduced load is a 60% of max charge. That means a 50 grain max load in the book is reduced to a 30 grain charge.

When I first read the quoted post I read it as stating a 40% of max but it does say reduces so I don't know if it was a typo, error, or just expressing the charge from the other direction than all of the Hodgdon literature does. I only post this in hopes that it prevents someone from possibly getting hurt.

Good call, Thinking on this It would have been better to not put any percentage on the thread and just said where to find the information. Hodgdon does a good job of explaining the process. Hope everyone would go to the original source before using this data.