Originally Posted by Mule Deer
It's certainly my favorite for deer-sized game.

My present 7x57 will shoot any bullet in the 160-grain class to the same point of impact at 100 yards. I use the 160 GK for practice, sighting-in and most hunting, but switch to others on larger game. Have taken the rifle to Africa on a couple of long cull hunts, and aside from the 160 GK loads took ammo loaded with the 156 Norma Oryx, 160 TSX, 160 Partition and 160 North Fork. But the GameKing took more animals than any of the others.


Not to hijack this thread, but this raises a question I've been wondering about. If this is your Kilimanjaro you're talking about, I know you've written a lot about it and must have put quite a few rounds down the barrel by now. And it also doesn't sound as though you've tried to turn it into a 7RM; so my question is this: How many rounds did it have through it, or will it have through it, before starting to notice any accuracy degradation due to erosion and barrel wear? I'll never live long enough to shoot out any of mine, but I'm just wondering what sort of barrel life expectancy one can expect with a moderate cartridge like the 7x57, loaded within normal limits (again, not trying to make it something it isn't).

Thanks

RM

"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown