LOOKING FOR 7TCU PET LOADS

[boneguru]

GOING TO USE THIS FOR JAVELINA, HAVE TAKEN 30-30 AND 223, THIS WOULD APPEAR TO FIT RIGHT ABOUT BETWEEN THEM, GOING TO USE 120GR NOSLERS OUT OF A 16" T/C AND THE BOOKS GIVE GREAT REFERENCE. JUST LOOKING FOR PET LOADS THAT MIGHT BE AROUND THE NIEGHBORHOOD. RAYMOND

[Double D]

139 gr.  Hornady
Fed 200 primer
28.5 grs H-335

Don't look at it throuuh the spotting scope if you think its shooting good until you fire all five shots.

Used it to take several deer including one big Fallow all one shot!  This load sucks prairie dogs out of their hole and tosses their  particulates through the air.

[Graycg]

I really like the 120 noslers as well as the Hornady 120 SSP.  You are a lot closer to the 30-30 with the TCU than you are the 223 when it comes to power.  I've had extremely good luck seemingly just dumping anything from H110 to 4895 into the case and seating bullets on top...there don't seem to be many bad TCU loads.  When my loads don't shoot well, I immediately look at the shoulders of the cases to see if maybe they collapesed a little during loading...that is usually the cause for inaccurate loads in my guns at least.  My hunting Barrel is a 12 inch Bellm made barrel and is throated for hunting bullets in the 120-140 range and is aces.  My factory 10 inch is also extremely accurate, but really shines with bullets that I consider too heavy for hunting...154s to 162s, though it is accurate enough with the lighter bullets for hunting.
   You will probably find the best velocity with something around h335 or 4895.  Good luck.

graycg

[Old Syko]

Double D has the bullet, 139 gr. Hornady but I prefer 26.5gr. of H322 over a CCI primer.  DD is also correct about leaving the spotting scope alone until you're done.  Nothing good ever comes of it.  My son and I have taken deer, coyotes, 2 hogs and countless smaller critters with this bullet and it just plain works!

[boneguru]

maybe I'll pick up some 139's
Raymond