I shot a deer a couple years back with a swedish 6.5x55 rifle loaded with hornady 160 gr. RN bullets and hit the deer right in the front of the chest at around 80 yards out and the bullet exitted the rear flank as the deer staggered around like he had lost his sense of direction and then flopped over to not twitch again and I was fairly impressed with the lil swede and if you stand a 7x57 case next to a swede case they are very close in actual size except for the .020 difference in bullet diameter and so if you neck the 7x57 down .020 in all reality arent we just turning it into a swede to some degree,just my $.02 worth.
