Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Is the 7X57 mouser the campfire cartridge of 2016?

Hard to beat a nice 1A.

Will give you that!

But as the gents said above, for the 7x57, a SR Mauser. They feed the 57 case like a dream and the action is always short and long enough...:)

I was being facetious. Ray Atkinson told us he could get 7x57 AI ballistics out of his Brno's and beat the 7mm Rem Mag.

Great fan...if someone would make brass I'd order a barrel tomorrow.

Remember what JOC wrote...an old timer told him if you (we) had a 22lr, a 12 ga, and a 3006 we'd do just fine.

Check Nosler and Grafs; it's in stock, all you want.

I had not seen that one, he must shoot different 7x57's than I have.

In point of fact my last 7x57 model 21 got 2700 fps out of 50 grains of ar2209 and 150 grain corelokts, up it to 51 grains of '09 and I couldn't hold the little bugger in my left hand.

Shocked the living crap out of a couple of 7mm rem shooters locally, it didn't up the speed much but by Christ it made the rifle lively.

Anyone that thinks they are going to jet-pack a 21 stock is in for one heck of an experience.

I never understood hot rodding a 7x57 I thought it's best attribute was being mild yet effective as is.

I'm happier with a .280 or a 7mm-08. And I love to read Corbett and Bell but I don't feel any need to gun the exact same cartridge. I used to get caught up in that sort of thing but as I get older I'm about what I like andnostalgia isn't much of a factor.

It is hardly nostalgic for me.

The 98 mauser is my first choice for a hunting action for all conditions. The 57mm case is native to that action.

You can make other cases work great and talented smiths do stuff others can't. None the less, the design favors the 57 case.

Same here. With it's slight tapper it was designed to feed. Throw it in a magazine box that was purpose built for that cartridge and it's amazing. Put that in an action designed specifically for that case and becomes a total package and a peach of a rifle

Beauty work on that Mex, Terry

Mousers and Mausers are both timeless:


My Mouser:








My Mauser:











... and it's even a 7x57!

FC

I am a fan and have been for a bit. My Swede.





Youngest son is too. His Walther Mauser.

To each his own.

I never understood why the 7x57 should languish in SAAMI pressure limits because of the weakness of the Mauser Models 1892, '93 and '95. I don't consider exceeding those limits "hot rodding", rather using it's potential.

While there is no arguing that point there is nothing better than making a very good cartridge better. If the 7x57 had been loaded to it's full potential, there would have been no need for the 7-08. Based on one experiment there probably would have been no need for the .280 Remington as well.
Admittedly, the only reason would be to increase the range for reliable hit at longer range.
The 140 gr. factory ammo is advertised at 2600 FPS. My pet load for that weight bullet is 2800 FPS which is safe even at the 100+ degrees here in our summers. Matter of fact we're forecast to be about 90 today.
Paul B.

Must have been using much better Brno model 21's in 7x57 than I have.

[quote=Zs84]I never understood hot rodding a 7x57 I thought it's best attribute was being mild yet effective as is. [/quote

This ^^^^

As I have stated elsewhere I always chuckle when one claims that " with proper loads the 7x57 can approach the 270 ballistically". Well if that's what you are looking for I can think of a lot easier way to get there.