Alas, Friday evening passed, followed by Saturday morning and Saturday evening with no buck in sight. Hodgdon reloading data for the 7mm WSM shows that the 140 grain Nosler Partition spitzer bullet can be driven to a MV of 2979 fps in front of 58.0 grains of H4350 powder.
A half-century in the making, the new DGX Bonded is Hornady's best-ever dangerous-game bullet. Here's a shot of my playground. Quite a few years later my brother in Illinois happened on one at a dusty old gun shop in central Illinois and picked it up for a song.
©2020 Outdoor Sportsman Group. This simply isn't true. He had fired a 12-shot group that was about 1/2 MOA. Both rifles shoot exactly the same--same accuracy, same velocity, same trajectories. The 140-grain Fail Safe bullet in the .270 Winchester has a muzzle velocity of 2920 fps; the .270 WSM ramps this up to 3125 fps. popularity and ranks today among Winchester's five top-selling rifle cartridges. It was done by alternating shots between rifles. With the scope mounted it was time to see how the combination performed. Even the heavier 140-grain Fail Safe bullet was explosive on coyotes, no surprise given the enhanced velocity coming out of the WSM case. That's why he's able to shoot 1000 yards right in his "backyard". As you can see from the photo, the Ballistic Silvertip performed exactly as designed--full explosive upset and shed of the nose core, with the heel core behind the partition still intact.
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Search titles only . So many guys out there think that you have to shoot from a bench to get outstanding results.
Why this old classic and not a more modern cartridge like the popular 6.5mm Creedmoor? Thanks for the book.
The SE desert lands in the “big” counties can also be good if you know where to go and have a guide or a “friendly intro” to good mule deer habitat …. That caliber served me well until one early morning hunting near Hoback, Wyoming.
One thing I like about the Model 70’s bar ejector is it will fling cases if you want to, or raise them so you can pluck them out shooting from the bench. This consistency is what brings us to the final chapter in the saga of the Twins. I usually seat my bullets to touch the lands or seat just in a bit. Ric initally took delivery of the Twins to do break-in and load development. I very quietly picked up the Featherweight and looked through the Meopta. Seven does quickly gathered to snack on the cotton seed, but anything with antlers was still absent. The 7mm WSM is an effective and emphatic killer of medium game out to intermediate long ranges, producing best results inside 700 yards, much like the.280 Remington. In the hunting field it performed splendidly. In fact I was re-testing the 162gr A-Max and 175 gr SMK loads the day I shot the screamers at 1013 yards. Scepanski’s quest for the perfect lightweight hunting rifle led to Winchester’s Model 70 Featherweight chambered for 7mm-08 Rem. I'm staring at about a 5" group with less than 2" of vertical (That's .2 MOA of vertical). I thought there wasn't anything that could beat the 300 WSM for 800-yard accuracy. OK, close enough to my tables.
The heart of the newest Model 70 is, of course, its action. I heard the loud slap of the bullet impact immediately on top of the muzzle blast even before the muzzle had even reached its peak arc. — Chris Matthews. *Casing image above is an artist rendering and not a real photo of 7mm Winchester Short Magnum (WSM) Ballistics cartridge. Set out the bean bag and get comfortable. It also carries a tad more energy out to longer range and is … Well, if you choose to live in the "out of town" places you need to be well-prepared and tough. Finally, in 2015 Christensen Arms introduced their Summit Carbon Rifle chambered in the 270 WSM (more on that gun in a later post.) All of my desires seemingly packaged into one beautiful bolt-action rifle: the Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in 7mm-08 Rem. Match bullet. I couldn’t move fast enough, and I didn’t see him. In most guns, this can reduce magazine capacity by by one round compared to standard diameter magnum cartridges.
Finally I'll debur/champfer the inside and outside of the neck using a VLD chamferer. Just buy Lapua brass, and then test the excellent bullets in the 140gr class from Berger, Lapua, Hornady, Sierra, and maybe a boutique bullet-maker such as Clinch River. How to Sight in a Scope - Step by Step Guide. When load-testing, I try to get 100-yard groups to be half an inch or less (quarter-MOA is pretty good for me, but not something I can count on regularly.) On average you’ll need a heavier 7mm bullet which will produce more recoil IN AN ULTRALIGHT rifle like the one I’m putting together for this project. On paper the 7 WSM with the 162 A-Max or 175 SMK really out-performs both the 300 WM and the 300 WSM, two of my favorite calibers. The second three-shot group with the same loading and rifle measured 0.79 inch. I fell in love with the caliber and hunted nearly 25 years with the “Magnificent 7” as many writers have called her. Have you hunted over near Rye Valley at all? Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the targets of an unwarranted prosecution by an overzealous... Buckeye Firearms Association - August 24, 2020. Actually got them back through LaGuardia, too. I sat back in a in a huff and sent my husband and dad a rather bitter text letting them know that the shot they heard was me, but there was no deer to be seen. My three-group average with the same load through the same gun measured 0.95 inch.
Again, my methods are pretty simple. :p Someone else there told him that maybe the closest thing to that calibre was a .270 Roberts — ya think? But with the exception of the proprietary .270 Weatherby Magnum, the original .270 Winchester remains the only commercially available .270 cartridge. For a reticle I picked their BDC/a model which is located in the Rear Focal Plane and features additional elevation hold-over points. Our goals were simple--we wanted a tack-driver with long-range capabilities, from 400 to 1000 yards. Note that I don't do any shooting from a bench and rests except for the initial load work up. The deer staggered two steps sideways away from the impact and collapsed. The case is based off a .300 WSM with a narrowed neck to fit .284 inch bullets on a .321 inch neck and the parent case is the .404 Jeffery. The 130-grain Ballistic Silvertip bullet in the regular .270 Winchester has a muzzle velocity of 3050 fps. To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. (This McMillan stock design replicates the original M40A1 Marine Sniper Rifle stock.) The DNR ranch at Rand Creek is located in the heart of what Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed "the most scenic 50 miles in America". Topics: Precision rifle, hunting, 1000-yard, 1000 Yards, Wyoming, Cody, DnR Ranch, Yellowstone, 7mm, 7 WSM, Seven, Win Mag, Winchester Short Mag, LongShot Rifles, HTG stock, M40A1, elk, antelope, caribou, hunting. I found this Model 70 to be easy to cycle and load. The action’s recoil lug is bedded front and rear in the stock to enhance accuracy over the long haul. Tom Beckstrand and Neal Emery of Hornady highlight the 6MM Creedmoor ammo. Only a few minutes past sunrise, I was already getting antsy that I hadn’t seen a buck. That caliber served me well until one early morning hunting near Hoback, Wyoming. I've noted that the new brass usually shoots just as well as fire-formed cases. Several people told me that 6.5×55 Swede was just about the flattest trajectory ever — I don’t know. With the WSMs, Winchester has now taken this high-level competition design concept and translated it to field and sport-hunting applications (not unlike the way that successful high-end racecar technology eventually finds its way into your family minivan).
All in all it is a very pretty little bolt-action hunting rifle which is light, quick to the shoulder and balances well.
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It didn’t take long to get comfortable with the rifle and ready for the hunt. After firing the cases once, I clean them all up and make one pass on the neck turner just to "clean" the necks to a consistient diameter. Initial .270 WSM loadings will be available in the Winchester Supreme line with 130-grain Ballistic Silvertip and 140-grain Fail Safe bullets and in the Super-X category with 150-grain Power-Point bullets. Well Holy Moses. I'm tuning up a 7mm wsm mostly for the cool factor and my ego. I like the fast action and especially the looks of the rifle. For long-range, flat-country and mountain shooting, the new .270 "Short Magnum" is going to be an extremely versatile cartridge, in all its loadings.
It was classic styling mixed with the performance I was looking for. He figured, for me and what/when/how I hunted, that .25-06 was just ideal for me. And a new 7mm WSM is here, too.
Two weeks later, I, once again, made the 7-hour drive with high hopes of putting the Featherweight to use. I received my gun in mid-September and was pleased with the range performance of the 270 WSM, as I suspected all these years that I would be. Trigger system. Also, in theory, the sharp shoulder along with a rebated rim might cause feeding problems (not acceptable when hunting big mule deer where mere seconds often count.). I basically do Froggy's technique when shooting from a bipod. Prior to getting this rifle, my favorite calibers were the .308 Win and 300 WSM. The overwhelming favorites were, first, the .270 and, second, the 7mm. We considered a variety of calibers, but then Sierra announced their new 175gr (.284) MatchKing and that got our attention.