7mm-08 for youth?

[camoman83]

Ok I am building a 7mm -08 fro a friend of mine son. he is about 10 and i am trying to figure up a load for him i was thinking somthing in the 100-120 grain bullet i have alot of varget on hand. Any ideas??

[california shooter]

I just got done working up a load for my two sons, 10 and 12. They shoot savage 16 weather warriors, one in right hand the other in left topped with matching VX-II scopes. I had excellent results using Hornady SST 139 and Accubond 140's. Varget did ok and I will actually play with it some more but my best results came from 44.7 grs of IMR 4350 and CCI 200 primers. With this recipe I can get sub inch 5-shot groups any day of the week, my best being 0.375 measured edge to edge. I did a lot of testing on various days to prove this load reliable, not just a one time fluke. I hope this helps a little and good luck with that young shooter.

[tammons]

120 gr pro hunters for a cheap bullet for deer or 110 gr barnes TTSX if you are hunting a tough animal like hogs etc.
Reduced load over H4895.
Keep the barnes bullet at about 2500 and it will be good to about 300 yards.
Try around 38 gr of H4895 for 2500 fps.
8# gun - 8# of recoil

That said I load my dads mini 14 6.8 spc with 110 gr TTSX bullets at about 2650
and it is a real hog whacker.
Every hog we have shot, if it does not DRT it runs about 20 yards and keels over dead.
Expensive bullets though.

[camoman83]

thanks guys I will see what i can do I just got a call from my friend and i had given his son a bow. J the son has a beagle and it treed a rat this morning so J went inside and got his bow and shot it. So I am realy going to have to get the gun shooting
Matt

[Smokey262]

120gr 7mm Nosler Ballistic Tip seconds are on sales for $10/50 at the Shooters Pro Shop

For a quicky load work up last year for me Varget was OK, but H4350 was more accurate. 3000 fps was easy

[CJ in WY]

Might want to give H414 and 120 grain Nosler BT a try, works great and is easy on the shoulder