The 7x57 is an extremely high performance cartridge.

It achieves this by providing a good trajectory, uses bullets of superior performance for the majority of game hunted, demonstes penetration levels out of proportion to its paper ballistics and is one of the easiest to shoot, low recoiling cartridges with moderate muzzle blast that can be put into a lightweight mountain or plains rifle configuration.

Now if you bed it into a nice chunk of walnut, add a buffalo horn forend tip, red rubber recoil pad, some express sights to help contribute to upfront balance and a the now mandatory barrel band sling swivel and it has no peer for coolness.

No .270 or .280 can match that, and worse still, no rifle manufacturer has the marketing skills to put it all together. They just don't have the manufacturing capability to meet the demand that would be created.

There are just so many Corvettes and trophy wives a seasoned hunter can use, but a nice 7x57, that is something else.

JW

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