Originally Posted by lovemy99
don, just a guess, but that barrel was probably made before the super long bullets became popular ...


The 7x57s have always pretty much had the same twist rates for the last 100 years-all made to stabilize the military 173d RN slugs. Hard to get a bullet much longer than that.

Last edited by jim62; 04/11/11.
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