#10MinuteTalk - The 7mm STW — Live Fast and Die Young

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Bestowing lead-balloon status on the 7mm STW (Shooting Times Westerner) may have some folks wanting to sling lead at us. If that’s the case, we ask you download to rotten tomatoes. Born from the 8mm Remington Magnum (most certainly a lead balloon), the 7mm STW began life as a wildcat, gained popularity at a rate akin to the velocity it could push bullets, but fell off sharply. Why? Tune in to hear all about this super-fast 7mm. It’s still breathing, but for how long?

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0:00.0	What is up everybody? Mr. Jim, to my right, Mr. Ryan Muck and Hearn across from us right now.
0:08.0	Ryan, we are going to do one of our obligatory lead balloons today. This must make you so happy.
0:14.3	Yeah I'm pretty pleased about it. We got a couple cartridges here. One is for
0:19.6	comparison. One is the one we're actually going to talk about the 7 millimeter shooting times
0:28.2	Westerner commonly referred to as the 7 millimeter STW or 7 stew.
0:35.0	I like that one.
0:36.5	Old Stuart.
0:37.5	Stewie.
0:38.5	Oh he's got a 7 STW that.
0:41.5	Right. They had a little bit of powder, make it compelling to the reader.
0:47.0	This...
0:49.0	You know what?
0:51.0	Let's just use the rest of our time and do the Stewie impersonations.
0:55.2	This one came born from a wild cat as many cartridges are.
1:00.8	Yes.
1:01.8	Later became a commercial cartridge.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:06.0	It's a very fast cartridge.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:09.0	I feel like, and this is what I'm for, and I want you to shut some light on this. It started off like very fast and then did it end just as fast?
1:17.2	What was the 7mm STW just like a shooting star? Yeah. Oh wow in more ways than one. Yeah. Oh, wow. In more ways than one. Yeah, exactly. Kind of burned up on reentry. It's got some
1:30.8	favorable numbers attached to it.
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