A little more about my mother's 7x57. It was (still, because it is on display at the Jack O'Connor Center in Lewiston, ID) on a M98 action,22-inch barrel, stocked by Russ Leonard and wearing a 3x Leupold scope. Mother took dozens of big-game animals, including her 44 1/2-inch Dall ram, usually with one shot each.
Thank you for posting about your Mother.
That is great information for all of us here.
She had the wisdom to use both a 7x57, and a Leupold 3x scope. Many of us here appreciate, and use that same scope, and truly wish Leupold would re-introduce a new 3x scope in that same long tube configuration, only with the latest glass and coatings.
My sons and I all have used 7x57's for the last 30 years, since they were in their early teens. I just checked zero on two of my 7x57's yesterday, preparing for our Deer season.
