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Posted: 6/8/2010 5:32:57 PM EDT
| I have a 7mm-08 with a 1:11.5 in twist. Will a 162 gr A-Max stabilize? The gun is still unfired so if it won't shoot these bullets I'm gonna get rid of it and get one with a 9-9.25 in twist. If anyone has any experience with this or just knows more than I do any help is greatly appreciated. |
| it's only a 500 dollar gun so I don't really want to rebarrel it. I would rather sell it and buy something different, I bought it by accident (no really it was an accident that's not just what I tell my wife) so I'm not really attached to it and if I'm gonna sell it I want to do so when it's still new and unfired. |
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It might. The calculation keeps coming back to around 8 to get them truly stable, but depending on the gun and the barrel and the load, it might work.
It'd be worth a box at least to find out, I'd say. You need 30 or so to do a good ladder test. Longer barrels don't hurt anything. Remington offers several models in 7mm-08 that have 24" barrels, and this is what I would try to get, if I wasn't going a custom route. |
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Remingtons are 1:9.25, is that enought twist? I know I'm in the minority but I like Savages, but I would have no problem with a Remington 
As long as I have a gun in my hand I won't complain! I shoot a Sendero in 7 RM and you'd be fine with the 162 AMAX and a 1:9.25. In a 1:11.25" referenced in the initial post, I don't know, probably not would be my guess. They're quite a long bullet, but slick as snot. Chris |
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