Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Any reason to go 7x57 instead of 6.5x55?

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Rev,if you only knew about the bullet selection.

OP;

Your post title had promise, but your mention of going "either way" was bound to draw out mention of the .270, leopard thongs, and other embarrassing stuff.

I recommend the .308...

Hah! Didn't mean to get all you Bruce jenners horned up lol

It's actually a very easy case to make, if you want to get a reamer made. Just run a x57 case into a .257 Roberts sizer, then back into a .270 Win sizer.

A .257 AI Bob might be better though, give you a little more case capacity, to make a .270AI Ingwe. But I don't have one of the AI's, nor the dies...

But in fairness to Ingwe I doubt I'd mess with it, unless I had some intermediate action where it would fit well, somehow. So it's really not worthwhile. I'd best say that since Ingwe is a lot bigger than me, and I can't outrun his dog, neither...

You ought to KNOW that by now.

Velocibation = discussion.

Rule #1 = full freezer

If I had a 257 Rob, .270, and donor in 30-06 I'd sell the 270 for glass $ and make the 06 a 7x57, 280, or just leave it PERFECT?

That TC 270 is worth at least a couple M8 6x36s!?!?

The Mauser will be a swede and the 270 is gone just as you and I discussed.

A 7X57 and a M98 go together like peanut butter and jelly!

I would go 7x57 because I have about 300 150 gr. Remington Core-Lokt sitting. I will probably not use them as lead will be gone from California in 2 years.

Split the difference. That's what I did. Dave Kiff and I just finalized a reamer print several days back: 6.5x57BR. Print # 42299. It's Lapua 8x57 IS brass, necked down to 6.5 and the shoulder angle blown out to 30 deg. Not so much for extra volume, though it'll add a skootch, but to reduce the number of trips to the case neck trimmer. I sent 5 new, unfired cases to Dave for him to get accurate measurements.

Alan

I'm pleased that it only took 6 pages to settle this. A few observations if I may?

There is an limited supply of FPS on this planet. They should be used sparingly. All resources are finite and valuable.

There is an UNlimited supply of MPS (Meters per second for the dimwits amongst us) however. Zeus has so decreed.

Smaller mm dimensions denote, well, smaller mm. Bigger mm dims are more munificent. Be a man, but more importantly, be an interesting man. Eschew the silly mm and a half theory, it will serve you no good.

Live large.

PTO

Hey Dan !

You may very well be on to something 'right there'.

Jerry

But I wanna throw those long skinny 6.5mm bullets at a leisurely javelin like speed through ten feet of elk. Ain't this the way? Lol