7 PRC accuracy, myths broken?

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Like most of you, I probably tweak too many things on my rifle but it makes me happy. My last tweak was to dial in my eye relief vs my length of pull. I think this tweak was a game changer.

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To me, this proves that the 7PRC can be accurate in a moderately weighted rifle ~10lbs loaded.

Center Target are all cold/warming bore shots: .625” 5 shot grp. Did it again at the lower left but just 3 shots.

This is the best this rifle has ever shot. Bergara Crest Carbon.

The rest were at 9 zoomies so I could see where I would be hitting in a hot bore hunting scenario. Not fully zoomed in.

Set aside the rest of this box on ammo for my Oct elk hunt :grin:

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PS

I finally got a athlon Rangecraft. That federal eldx, 2 boxes different lots, average fps: 2975 over roughly 12 shots. 22” barrel with Ultradyne Apollo LR break.

I’ll take that all day long.

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Good job!

Handloads or factory?

Took mine out of the safe, been sitting there since end of last season.

First 3 shots, cold and clean bore

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I may have to keep this thing cleaned. Next 3 groups opened up a bit

Edit: just saw where you posted the ammo info

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Yes. in the image. But Federal Premium ELDx 175 gr. Also shot Federal Fusion 175gr with same result.

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Yeah that Fed ELDX load is scarce right now. Fusion is pretty available.

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Glad I bought few extra boxes in the spring then.

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I finally took my 7prc to the range yesterday in the DREADED Ruger American Go-Wild. According to everyone’s reports, I should have had a terrible day full of jamming, shoulder pain, and accuracy issues. It’s stock except the recoil pad and I threw a can on it. Took 4 different kinds of box ammo and shot off a bipod with a rear bag. Shot three 3-shot groups at 100yrds with a little cooling in between (probably not enough).

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The Ferderal Terminal Acesnt was lights out. This was the average group size.

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Next was Hornady Precision Hunter. I had one group shoot .45”, this was the middle, and .72” when it was hot.

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This was the Hornady Outfitter. I cannot get this to shoot in any gun or cartridge. Not sure if it’s the nickel case or the CX bullet, but I had to try a couple more shots just to see where they land.

I wasn’t really expecting anything out of this gun. I paid about $600 for it on sale at a retail box store just to mess around with. I have plenty of other (smaller) caliber guns that are my go to for hunting. I’m not an expert shooter by any means and I have no allegiance to 7prc. Not sure why it gets such a bad rap.

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Yeah, I too have never had good accuracy with the Hornady Outfitter line. Seems like if you want to get that bullet to work you’ve got to hand load it.

Congratulations on a good day at the range!

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I can’t get the Cx to shoot well in the outfitter line, but I’ve had good luck with it in the superformance loads

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Same here. Outfitter CX will not group in several caliburs that I have. Have not tried the Superformance CX factory ammo though.

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I’ve got an alert set for when this ammo becomes available and it hasn’t rung off in over a couple of months now. Have to wonder what’s going on

  1. Everyone stocked up on it right before hunting season and depleted all the stores
  2. Federal can’t get the eldx bullet from Hornady
  3. Federal is just trying to push everyone to their 175 grain Fusion tipped instead of their competitor’s bullets
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Saw this as a highlighted article in my MDT marketing email just now:

https://mdttac.com/us/blog/why-is-the-7mm-prc-not-more-popular

This is weird to me because from what I’ve been seeing, the 7PRC is one of the hottest calibers in terms of new rifle pruchases. Anyone agree with this guy?

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Errrrrr

  1. The 7 PRC is not a necked down 300PRC. This was discussed on the Hornady podcast itself. A lot of people wanted that, and I’m pretty sure someone has actually created a wildcat that does exactly that. But Jaden and the crew said that the internal ballistics just was better with the current case size and not necking down a 300.
  2. More than one gunsmith, rifle Builder has said on a variety of podcasts that I’ve heard that they’re most frequently asked for new rifle or new Barrel is the 7prc. So I agree, I don’t know how you could call it not popular

I certainly don’t think it will ever become the most popular caliber ever. And good chance not even the most popular 7 mm Magnum Style cartridge ever.

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Quick look at Sportsman’s online

In terms of availability

7PRC falls behind 308, 6.5CM, 6.5PRC, and 300WM. It beats 30-06, 270Win, 7RM, and pretty much all other centerfire offerings