7MM Rem Mag Browning X-Bolt Accuracy test 

Its been fantastic.

I have only heard good things about Tikka accuracy, they look a little plain to me, but the accuracy has been touted well by people I know who have them.

It is fairy soft recoiling, I have a 22” barrel Xbolt 308, shooting 165 accubonds around 2750, and it feels about the same, the longer action 7mm and 26” barrel seem to tame some of the recoil. But, the loads I’m using are 160 gr at 2950 on average, so really they are middle of the road 7mm loads and the 308 are full loads so they shouldn’t feel much different. I don’t think it kicks any worse than a 270 Win.

Federal Premium ammo using a 160 Nosler Accubond.

I'll tell ya I have a hard time believing a 7Mag will get that velocity with a 160Gr bullet, 3000FPS is about the norm for a 160, and maybe, maybe 3100 if you really loaded it hot. To each their own, but if you're at nearly 3100 with that bullet I would feel uneasy about the pressures its creating. RL26 from their website shows a charge of 67 Gr RL26 produces 3014 FPS from a 24" tube. I'd think again if its a 7MM Rem mag. A 7mm Weatherby would do that much though.

I responded to your comment but it looks like it’s been removed.

@@fit4outside Not sure why.

Basically what I said was that my velocities are legitimate. Look up The Real Ginsmith video “reloading tips with 7mm Rem mag”. That will explain how I get those velocities.

I watched that video. I’ve always enjoyed his videos, here’s where I’m coming from. He talks about needing to throat out the chamber to allow the bullet to be seated longer and have a magazine box that allows that. Those two things right there eliminate uploading the seven mag in many factory rifles. if you’re interested in creating a custom rifle to maximize the cartridge that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that and that’s fine. if you’re going to use a factory rifle like I am and you’re gonna load for accuracy, you’re probably gonna end up between 2900-3050 ft./s with a 160 Accubond. Playing with slower burning powders you can push that number upwards but ultimately what’s the point? Anywhere in that range is a very effective hunting projectile. And at 200 300 400 and 500 yards. There’s no practical difference between a load at one end of that spectrum and another. Reliability is a key factor to me. Pushing pressure envelopes to obtain 50 or 100 more feet per second or even 150 ft./s. Ultimately gives me no tangible benefit. I’m gonna post a link to a video of someone whose life was nearly lost along with his sister because they had a hot load in a large magnum rifle. The primer blew out of the case and jammed the action. They were then left nearly defenseless to a large Alaskan brown bear. Thankfully, they found their pistol that they had a one point dropped and were able to stop the bear. I’m happy to sacrifice 100 or 200 ft./s to avoid a scenario like that. The primer in the rifle fell into the action in a way that jammed the Bolt. And they acknowledge that they were very hot loads. Most likely no one will ever encounter that scenario again. Or it’s so unlikely to that it’s not really a statistically significant issue. But not loading to the maximum pressures that are often above book numbers, helps you avoid that type of issue. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VyO5Vs2huhg.html&pp=ygUgQWxtb3N0IGRpZWQgYmVhciBzdHVjayBuIHR0ZSBydXQ%3D

I took it out the other day, and made 3 shots at 570 yards. It was just over a 2" group almost perfect left to right. This gun is crazy accurate.