What grain bullet to shoot out 7 mag

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Also, sell the browning and get a model 70

Mine shots the 165's better than the 140's, if you have time buy both and see which do better for your gun, both will phuck up a deer

I've seen more deer run LONG distances after being shot with a 7 mag than a .243.

I shoot the Hornady 154gr SSTs... dropped a good many deer in their tracks... trailed a couple too... one was trotting and I didn't make a good shot but still got her

When I rifle hunted I used 180 gr ballistics. I've never had to track a deer that I shot with my 7mag.

For whitetails, 165 in the 7mm Magnum is too heavy.

Step it down to 150 or lower and you won't regret it.

If it were me, I'd use a 130. But if you can't find that, or don't reload, then I'd go 140 in something that is not designed for 'penetration'. Whitetails are thin skinned and have a small cross section. You want that bullet fully mushroomed in about 3-5 inches at the most. So soft tips, or something that can do similar are necessary.

For a hunting round in most places, ballistic coefficient doesn't matter a whole lot. So longer bullets are irrelevant as long as you can get a two inch or so group at 200 yards or less. Four inches for a hunting rifle at 200 isn't a negative as long as terminal ballistics are really serious.

Heavier bullets just knock holes in whitetails and you end up trailing wounded deer that you may or may not get. Deer who's guts turn to goo on the other hand don't go far.

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Almost as bad as a .243

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right behind the shoulder and bullet under the hide on the other side

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According to one man on here, that's good, because he says he doesn't want the bullet to exit.

I like blood trails. I had a fellow bring a deer by earlier this week, shot with a 30-06 with Remington Whitetail Pro (or something like that) 150gr. The bullet broke into about 8 pieces after hitting a rib. Was a mess. I'd never recommend those. I've shot core-locts on and off for 30 years, and cannot make a specific complaint about them. I've shot deer with every bullet you can find, and sometimes they all just do strange things.