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mchughcb said:
Understand but getting close to 3200ftlb is right up there with a hot load on a 30-06 with a 165gr projectile and given it has a small diameter, I'd expect the pressures to be pretty darn high.
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Oh it's getting up there but the 7x64 will do it.

Scrummy
 
To be honest, I loaded this purely for driven boar, so shots will be limited.

Based on the initial testing, the lowest load may well be the most accurate, even though the ES, & SD improve with speed.

I will always go with the most accurate load, mostly !
 
Lateral said:
Depending on how quickly I need it, from whoever has it, and that's not easy.

What are you looking for ? I may have some spare, because the boar season appears to be "closed for business" this year !
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Ah, don't need any right now, just wondering if you'd found a regular supplier as when my Sako Arrowhead Factory (Swift Scirrocco by another name) give out, I wouldn't mind a boar / large deer load and Norma Oryx crossed my mind. Also tempted to try the 175gr Partition but the cost is fearful. Sierra 175gr SBT and Speer Grandslam seem a bit cheaper. Looks like Hornady are discontinuing their spire point, sadly.

Scrummy
 
For Boar I use the 173gn H-Mantle which I get from Germany. They kill very well, but do make a bit of a mess. But I shot a 100kg Keiler with a 150gn Fox monolithic. Slightly quartering away at 70 odd metres, at 3am in the morning. At the shot, an almighty squeal and ran and was found dead with a big blood trail 20 odd yards from where it was shot.

German friends who have the 7x64 shoot most of their Boar with bog standard Geco 165gn softpoint. And most boar shot are not the very large 200 kg Keilers, but the 50kg meat animals. And on the smaller ones the hard tough bullets can go straight through.
 
I use two 7x64 load Norma Oryx with rl26 from a 26"barrel and Eld X with RS 60 from a 22 inch barrel. Both work close on pigs including giants and long range on all alpine type animals.
 
Heym SR20 said:
I have the rimmed version 7x65R - lovely calibre. And very versitile. You can use a 173gn bullet that is more than capable for thumping big large animals. I have shot 100kg Boar with mine without any fuss or bother.

Just read the article you referenced Heym, very interesting indeed thank you.

With a streamlined 140 to 156 grain bullet it has a high ballistic coefficient and enough case capacity to push it fast and flat. I have some RWS loaded with their non-toxic HIT Bullet at 2,900 fps. Normal inch high at 100 zero, I am hitting a 5" gong on the range at 230 metres in the centre with cross hairs in the centre.

Yet you can also load a 140 gn at a mild 2600 fps and good for Roe etc. - I have used such a load - a 139gn Hornady softpoint over IMR 4831 to take lost of Roe from 20 yards out to 200. They have all fallen over without much fuss. And also taken lots of foxes with the same load. And out of a 26" barrel its pretty quiet.

I have taken one Chamois, but not with my rifle, but no reason why it should n't work very well.

I am very surprised that the 7x64 / 65r are not more popular in the UK. They don't have the high pressure crack of the 270, and don't have the recoil of the 30-06 and mostly very smooth shooting. Yes with big bullets and fast loads they have a bit of recoil, but in my combination gun I reckon the 16 bore barrel probably has more. And yet they are very well balanced and a god all rounder. Any better than the 7x57 - possibly - but not at the smaller bullet weights, albeit a lot of 7x57 ammo is not loaded to its full potential. But it does have quite more authority when you getting to the heavier bullet weights.

Ammo is available in the UK, and increasingly available. But it is not everywhere, and you do need to think ahead a wee bit. It helps if you have a reasonable quantity on your ticket so you can buy 100 rounds at a time. RWS is good ammo, but expensive. Geko is just as good, but much much more affordable, and look down at Sellier & Bellot and Prvi as they are very affordable and work well. Beauty of the 7x64 is you don't need expensive bullets to work well. And its straightforward to reload.

Here is a video of the 7x65R which I posted elsewhere:



and this is well worth a read

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Heym SR20 said:
For Boar I use the 173gn H-Mantle which I get from Germany. They kill very well, but do make a bit of a mess. But I shot a 100kg Keiler with a 150gn Fox monolithic. Slightly quartering away at 70 odd metres, at 3am in the morning. At the shot, an almighty squeal and ran and was found dead with a big blood trail 20 odd yards from where it was shot.

German friends who have the 7x64 shoot most of their Boar with bog standard Geco 165gn softpoint. And most boar shot are not the very large 200 kg Keilers, but the 50kg meat animals. And on the smaller ones the hard tough bullets can go straight through.
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I liked the geco and user with success but my new 7x64 doesn’t like them so having to explore other options
 
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