What is your favorite Light 7mm-08 load for white-tails?

[swampmaster]

If you run into a hassle or have a hard time finding the right powder, my wife has used the hornady factory-loaded low recoil loads with good success on deer sized game with a shorter barrel. They are shooting 120gr SST’s, and have all been bang/flops out to just over 200 yards which is the furthest she’s tried. Its a fairly similar bullet to a ballistic tip. Accuracy has been fine and recoil is noticeably less than the factory-loaded 120gr ttsx (which is at much higher velocity).

Good to know!! I think I have some 120 gr. .284 SST's in the cabinet also. I started buying them when supplies started getting hard to find.

 

[wyosam]

If you don’t need much range, put your favorite 120 grain bullet over 31-34 grains of h4895. Really mild recoil.


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[N2TRKYS]

What are you shooting with the partions? I used 140's in my .280 and quit because on broadside shots through the ribs they didn't expand hardly at all. On frontal shots under a 100yds they would literally end for end.

Whitetails. They expand like they’re designed to do and provide great blood trails on broadside shots for me.

Don’t know that I’ve ever heard anybody say that Partitions didn’t expand for them. For experience with them seems weird.

 

[swampmaster]

If you don’t need much range, put your favorite 120 grain bullet over 31-34 grains of h4895. Really mild recoil.


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Where did you get your data from for that load. I don't have 4895 In stock, but I found a sale on IMR4895 at $35/lb or 8# for #230