It was a superbly-accurate cartridge with mild recoil for comfortable shooting, but propelled bullets owning higher ballistic coefficients with enough retained energy to topple those stubborn rams with ease. The 7mm TCU immediately dominated the Production Class in NRA and International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association (IHMSA) competition. The 7mm TCU was the most popular of Wes Ugalde’s wildcats (including 6mm and 6.5mm versions) and once one of Thompson/Center’s (T/C) top-selling barrel options.

While the 7mm TCU generally lacks the velocity for violent expansion on smaller varmints such as ground squirrels, lighter hollowpoint bullets do a nice job on larger varmints like rockchucks and coyotes. Only targets tipped from their bases counted against final score. 221 Remington Fireball in the Remington XP-100) often failed to dislodge. It was the rams that inspired the 7mm TCU, a cartridge devised to provide more reliable knockdown of those 50-pound/200-meter targets, which less potent bottlenecked pistol cartridges (like the popular. The high-power pistol class of silhouette shooting involves 13-inch chickens placed at 50 meters, 22-inch pigs at 100 meters, 19-inch turkeys at 150 meters and 32-inch rams at 200 meters. The modern version of this pastime spawned in Nogales, Arizona, features animal silhouettes cut from 3⁄8- or ½-inch steel plate.

Silhouette shooting descended from a Mexican sport dating back to the early 1900s. It quickly became the nation’s fastest-growing shooting sport by the mid-1980s. This would prove to be a reliable deer or hog load.The shooting sport blossomed in the early 1970s, particularly after the National Rifle Association (NRA) became involved in organizing shoots. Barnes monolithic 110-grain TTSX FB bullets performed well with 25.5 grains of Accurate 2015, producing a.

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