Ruger#1 7STW Need load help....

[BKS]

 Since just about every company has stopped loading for my baby again, can anybody help me with any load suggestions for a #1 is 7 STW?
 
 I been thinking about the berger bullets, since it is almost mandatory to load for this cartridge.
 
 Just looking for suggestions
 
 
   

[Lloyd Smale]

Heres my take on it. Ill be honest ive never owned one so dont have data. I am starting a loading project for a 7 ultra mag which is close. My thoughts bullet wize are that you still dont need premium bullets. Ive shot enough deer with 7rem mags to know that in it a 140 cup and core still works. My thoughts with this ultra isnt to go premium but go a bit heavier. Something like a 160 sierra or nosler 150 bt. I will also try a 150 partition and hope they shoot. Partitions are the one premium bullet i will use as they just killed so well for me. Problem is many guns dont shoot them well. That brings up the problems with many of the premium bullets. Most are tough to get to shoot well. A 7stw is a very flat shooting gun and your going to want moa acuracy or better to take advange of it. Ive shot quite a few barnes tsx bullets in the last year and have shot 4 deer with them in various guns and they just dont put down deer like a cup and core bullet. Ive tried various bonded bullets in my guns and never found an accuracy combo that satisfied me. I also can say that ive shot hundreds of deer with cup and core bullets and have yet to loose one that wasnt my own fault using them. Believe it or not my favorite long range deer gun right now is a 264 mag shooting 120 bts. I shot a half a dozen deer this year with that combo out to 450 yards and none even twitched. If i was hunting game bigger then deer with your gun id consider stepping up to a premium bullet but to me that would mean a partition or maybe a speer grand slam. But dont by into all the internet commandos that maybe have shot 5 deer in there life telling you that you need some kind of majic high dollar bullet to put meat on the table.

Since just about every company has stopped loading for my baby again, can anybody help me with any load suggestions for a #1 is 7 STW?
 
 I been thinking about the berger bullets, since it is almost mandatory to load for this cartridge.
 
 Just looking for suggestions
 
 
 

[BKS]

 I appreciate the reply. I have killed deer with it in the past with 140 BST in the Winchester factory rounds, I have been accumulating some different bullets to try, I think I want to go heavier if they are more accurate for sure,
 
 Im just getting started into the reloading game so this will be interesting to say the least. 

[woods]

     I owned a model 70 larado in 7mmstw a few years back amazing rifle it was all set up for long range varmit hunting, I know alot of kick and blast for ground hogs but wow the thrill of makeing a clean kill at 640 yrds was a rush. My rifle absolutely loved 150 nosler balistic tips. I practiced and played with alot of different bullets but this one seemed the perfect one for accuracy in my rifle. Imr 7828 was my powder of choice filled the case up about 95% load density with fed magnum primers. I killed 3 deer total with this rifle with barnes tsx 150 gr couldn't get the same acuracy that the nosler was giving me but it was close. Longest shot for white tail was 170 yrds closest was 25yrds (this was a shockwave messed up doe, 3 exit wounds bullet ripped apart I think going to fast.) I lost my long range varmit hunting area to a new houseing developement so the rifle started to collect dust. I traded it off 3 years ago for a weatherby athenna 28 ga. that quickly became my favorite shotgun. Some load data for you at this web sight try the 150's with 70 gr of imr7828ssc. My rifle would hit pop cans filled with water at 300yrds with this load.
 
http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp
 
     woods