I just recently purchased my first 7mm magnum so I don’t have any expirience with magnums.
My experience has been with 280’s both rem and ai’s. The 140gr Barnes ttsx bullets performed good out to about 350yds then started to turn into pencil pokers. On deer out to 500yds the ballistic silvertips were absolute poison, I’ve only shot one elk with them and 2 moose and ithey had the same effect. Most of my bigger game like moose and elk I used either 140gr accubonds or 150gr long range accubonds.
Having a bit more powder capacity with the magnums I’d imagine the performance range of the ttsx would stretch out another 100yds or so. I’ve got some Berger 168gr Hunting VLD bullets I’m hoping will prove to be killers because they sure are good at paper punching.
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