I'll take my favorite woods walking carbine out for a few days while looking for deer. I bought it several years ago just for the purpose of using cast in it and find it is very accurate with a 165 grain bullet at 1900 fps. Here is a pic of it after action:

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"there are few better cartridges on Earth than the 7 x 57mm Mauser"
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