Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Good 7x57 Mauser loads

Started out using AA4350 under 160 grain Speers and Sierra bullets. Worked great and killed everything no problem! My barrel is only 19 inches long but throat length lets me load out to 3.16 with most bullets I used 46.0 grains. Then I starting buying 150 grain Ballistic Tips from the Shooters pro shop and came into a supply of WC852 surplus powder. Worked up to 48.0 grains and used this load under both the 140 gr. Partitions and the 150 gr. Ballistic Tips. My guess is that the velocity is somewhere between 2600 and 2700 fps but this load has taken many deer and far more feral hogs with ease. I built this rifle in 1993 and just this year put it on the backup rack so I could burn up some of the .308 diameter bullets I have. The rifle is still finely accurate and a pleasure to shoot. It will be back on line, I loaded every piece of brass I have for it before I put it into the safe.