Clickbait — but here you are 
Genuine question after watching the Tikka 7 PRC video — what makes it so hard for manufacturers to create an accurate 7 PRC? There are many examples of rifles that can shoot other large cartridges with high recoil, high chamber pressure, and big heavy bullets well that struggle with the 7 PRC.
Bonus question: will this be the demise of 7 PRC so that other older cartridges might continue to live on in their dominance?
Personal opinion
They can make an accurate 7PRC, but they just don’t in many cases
7PRC has been marketed to the lightweight rifle crowd as the ultimate cartridge, thus the rifles are too light for the recoil.
Put it in a slightly heavier gun, and don’t push it to the max and it’s great.
My question after watching: you didn’t get a 1:9 twist like the other forum member did you?
I consistently get .75-.8 grouping with factory federal eldx from my 7PRC. It weighs about 10lbs, no problem for me on my western hunt. The Crest Carbon has a thicker barrel and while it gets hot fast and doesn’t shoot great hot, it accurate when managed. In hunting scenarios, heat will never be an issue.
My post above with the Fierce Mountain Reaper, I shot 10 rounds. On the way home I notice Damn my shoulder is sore.
I’m wondering. If you switched out the tikka stock for a stiffer stock with better geometry, put in a lighter trigger spring, shot suppressed or with a brake, added the backstop recoil pad, and developed a load for it, then would the T3x 7 prc shoot? I’m tempted… lol
Shoot suppressed and groups and recoil seem to great better
I love the 7prc. Shoots softer than my 300wm and mine groups awesome w almost everything I’ve tried, chose to go w factory Norma Bondstrikes. Fierce reaper 22” barrel. Scythe Ti suppressor. 5 shot group
Is that the same one you were dealing with which had the 1:9 barrel ?
Yeah once I swapped to a 162 grain eldx it shot great largest group was a .6 moa but I think I had a bad powder charge because my sd and es went up on that group but after averaging 6 3 shot groups it’s a .36 moa rifle so a little better that a 3/8 average.
How much did it weigh when you got this group? Impressive, btw!
That’s very impressive indeed ! Congrats to you and the rifle’s owner.
Still quite odd how he ended up with that particular configuration
I use the norma bondstrike in my 6 5 prc.
And the golden target for playing … works awesome.
I wish they had the oryx in a factory load though
I’ve been curious about this topic myself.
I picked up a Ruger American Go-Wild chambered in 7 PRC a while back for a great price. It’s completely stock. With factory ammo, I’m getting around 0.65" groups with Hornady Match, about 0.71" with Hornady ELD-X, and roughly 0.85" with Federal. The only load it really doesn’t like is Hornady Outfitter, but none of my rifles shoot that one particularly well.
I know these aren’t “same-hole” groups, but for all the criticism the 7 PRC gets, I think it performs really well for a lightweight rifle, especially considering I’m just casually shooting it. I haven’t even tried it with a suppressor yet.
I think all larger magnum rifles really require some beef behind the scope, a really good approach to the rifle and a very steady/repeatable platform to shoot from. If you have these, the 7PRC in a good fun will perform as a hunting round. And I say hunting because that’s the round’s best use case. It is too much recoil for plinking, for ELR*, competition. Guys who just hunt typically are 1 MOA guys, this is what they want out of their rifles. For all ethical hunting ranges, 1 MOA kills. The 7PRC fits that description.
