7mm PRC: A Deep Dive into the Newest Precision Rifle Cartridge
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Is the new 7mm PRC necessary? If so, why? Does it accomplish much that current 7mm's can't?
The answer is yes, profoundly. However, the devil is in the details. The 7mm PRC offers a series of small advantages that add up to a massive overall superiority. In short, it's potentially the best 7mm magnum cartridge ever designed.
This episode starts from a skeptical standpoint and explores the 7mm PRC's characteristics, and in the end outlines just why it's so profoundly good.
Characteristics:
- Balanced performance (easy accuracy)
- Fast-twist rifling (compatible with modern long-range bullets)
- Best in class ballistic performance at extreme range
- Optimal case design for maximum consistency
- Better barrel life than competitors
- Chamber and throat dimensions modeled after 6.5 Creedmoor for top-shelf accuracy with factory ammo
- Easy to reload
- Tons of rifle companies already on board
The result is a turn-key solution for shooters that want best-possible extreme-range capability without having a custom, fast-twist rifle built with extended magazine box and tuned handloads.
Potentially, the 7mm PRC is THE 7mm cartridge of the future. This episode details why.
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| 0:00.0 | Our cartridge scene is saturated with 7m-m-ms, yet Hornady is just announced another. |
| 0:08.0 | It's intriguing, but the question must be asked, does it deserve to live? |
| 0:14.7 | My initial response to listeners asking really last year and are there here in 2022. If Hornity would ever do a 7 MM PRC was that I highly doubted it |
| 0:27.1 | because there just wasn't a need for it, nor was there a significant gap in the cartridge performance world that a freshly designed cartridge could fill. |
| 0:37.0 | I was wrong on both counts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hornity has indeed introduced to 7-M-P-R-C, yes, and I'll be darned, it's cooler than a cucumber. |
| 0:49.1 | Before I dive into just why, let's briefly take a look at all the great 7m cartridges that already |
| 0:55.8 | exist. Then we'll be more adequately prepared to examine the 7m. PRC and |
| 1:02.0 | where it fits in the realm. |
| 1:04.0 | So first, as far as I'm concerned, we have the 7 MM 08. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's a great little cartridge, it's a short action cartridge. It's the one my son William has used on all of his big game so far in his life other than a muzzle-loader analog that he took. |
| 1:21.0 | Low recoil, high performance, works great. It's most comfortable with bullets |
| 1:26.9 | in 150 grain weight range and lower, although we'll shoot the 160's okay. Great little cartridge. Never going to be much of a long-range |
| 1:38.0 | cartridge. Next we have the 7 by 57. This one's legendary, it was the first of the Greats. |
| 1:45.4 | It was designed, of course, as a military cartridge was adopted by sportsmen and lives on to this |
| 1:50.8 | day as one of the great, the all-time great historic hunting |
| 1:56.9 | cartridges and of course military cartridges. Many hunters, especially over in Europe and Africa, lean on 175 grain bullets out of this |
| 2:07.1 | cartridge pushed relatively slow and it just has a ton of killing capability for what it is. It's a relatively small cartridge case. I consider it kind of a medium standard. It's smaller than a 30-06 case cases far as length. |
| 2:23.0 | It's got a lot of body taper, a long neck, and so forth. |
| 2:27.3 | Yet it still provides pretty effective killing capability to three or 400 yards. Now it's very similar in many ways to the 7 |
| 2:38.0 | m.08 in ballistic performance, a little bit different in terminal performance because typically of the projectile is chosen. |
| 2:46.1 | One difference though is that it won't fit in a short action rifle. |
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