Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr Soft Point – Reliable 20 Round InterLock Box

Description

Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr, part number 80591AG, is a fast, flat shooting hunting load built on a projectile most American hunters already know. The bullet is a Hornady InterLock boat tail soft point leaving at a listed 3,140 feet per second for 3,043 foot-pounds at the muzzle, twenty rounds to the box on reloadable brass.

What 139 Grains Does in a 7mm Magnum

The 7mm Remington Magnum is a long range deer and antelope cartridge that will also take elk with the right bullet, and bullet weight is where those two jobs separate. At 139 grains Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr sits on the lighter, faster side of the range. It shoots very flat, it hits hard at distance, and it is a first rate open country load for deer sized game.

For elk, most people would rather have 160 or 175 grains of a bonded or partition style bullet. The InterLock is a conventional cup and core design with a mechanical ring holding the core to the jacket, and at 3,140 fps a light-for-calibre cup and core bullet at close range on heavy bone is asking a lot of it. That is not a criticism of the load, it is a statement about what it is for.

Used inside its lane, Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr is a lot of cartridge for the money. You are buying a recognised Hornady InterLock bullet in a value priced box rather than a house projectile nobody can find data on.

Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr Specifications

Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr is loaded by Aguila in Mexico on boxer primed brass. As always, the velocity figure comes from a long test barrel. A 22 inch hunting rifle will chronograph slower than 3,140 fps, often by 60 to 100 feet per second, and a short barrelled mountain rifle slower still.

Recoil from Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr is real and so is the muzzle blast. A 7mm magnum in a light rifle is not a pleasant bench gun, and the temptation is to sight in with a few rounds and stop. Resist it. Shoot enough to know where it prints and to be honest about whether you flinch, because a flinch developed at the bench does not stay at the bench.

Barrel life is the quiet cost of a magnum. Throat erosion at these velocities is faster than in a standard cartridge, and accuracy will start to fall off after a couple of thousand rounds of hard shooting. Most hunters will never reach that, but a competitive shooter or a heavy practiser should know it going in.

• Cartridge: 7mm Remington Magnum
• Bullet: 139 grain Hornady InterLock boat tail soft point
• Muzzle velocity: 3,140 fps
• Muzzle energy: 3,043 ft-lbs
• Case: brass, boxer primed, reloadable
• Manufacturer part number: 80591AG
• UPC: 640420012667
• Packaging: 20 rounds per box, 10 boxes per case
• Country of origin: Mexico

Practical Notes for a 7mm Rem Mag Hunting Load

Confirm zero with Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr specifically. Magnum loads vary more between brands than standard cartridges do, and a rifle zeroed with 160 grain ammunition will not be zeroed with this. Two or three rounds on paper before the season is the cheapest insurance there is.

Practise without burning the barrel or your shoulder. Dry fire does most of the work: our A-Zoom 7mm Rem Mag snap caps let you drill bolt work and trigger control at home, which is where a flinch gets fixed. Then verify with live rounds.

Keep the brass from every box of Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr. Belted magnum cases are worth reloading, and if you do load them, headspace on the shoulder rather than the belt once the case has been fired in your chamber. It gives better case life and usually better accuracy. An ammo box in this case family keeps fired brass and loaded rounds from mixing in the truck.

Think about the shot you will actually take. A 7mm magnum invites long shots because the trajectory allows them, but wind drift and your own field position are the limits, not the ballistic chart. Decide your maximum range from a field position on a windy day, not from a bench on a calm one.

If you hunt a second rifle in a smaller calibre, the same InterLock bullet family runs through the rest of this line. Our Aguila 243 Win 100 grain soft point is the same idea in a light recoiling deer cartridge.

Aguila 7mm Rem Mag 139gr suits the hunter who wants a flat shooting deer and antelope load with a known bullet and does not want to pay premium line prices to get one. Buy it for open country deer sized game, step up in bullet weight if elk are on the list, and shoot enough of it to trust it. Ships from our licensed inventory in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, with adult signature required on delivery.

A note on supply. Aguila centrefire rifle ammunition reaches the United States in batches rather than as a continuous flow, and the magnum hunting calibres tend to disappear from shelves in September and October. If a lot groups well in your rifle, buy enough of it for the season rather than counting on a restock.