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

I'm probably a generation before many of the ones who post here on the Gunwriter section of this forum. The truth is I have great respect for the ways of the older generation and I see a lot of the good slipping away in each new and upcoming generation. For this reason I decided to build a 7X57 and years from now whether hunting is allowed or not I will in honor of all the old-timers shoot some venison every now and then and enjoy the fruitage of my kill over a nice fire. Not only will I make honorary kills but I'll do it with an old cup and core bullets.



Shod

Shod -

I respect what you said.

By the same token the 270 Win, born 1925 ain't the youngster amongst cartridges. Being born here in the USA also deserves its rightful homage.

IMHO - there are several cartridges that have earned their place in our minds, hearts, and admiration.

Now back to our regular program.

Jerry

Jwall,

I appreciate the point you make. I can see a need to aquire a number of older rifles including a 270. My oldest rifle as of now would be an 1980 L61 Sako Finnbear in 270.

I just looked up the year of my Whitworth action and its 1984.

In my opinion I'm going to need something more along the lines of 1960. After around 1970 I feel it all started going to hell in a handbasket. I was only 2 years old in 1970. Though I didn't get to see the good old days I have been fortunate enouph to see the product of the good old days in the Men I grew up around and a few that are still hanging in there



Shod

Kind of fond of the 7X57 mouser myself.

This is mean-spirited...talking behind my back and all.


Then equating me with Shrap and his antiquated, underpowered deuce mag!

Worse yet, implying that we look alike!


Its easy to tell the difference...I am the mature,handsome one.




And heres another real 7x57 Mauser to go along with the many already posted...

Is that the rifle you used on the infamous zebra?

Do you really expect us to believe that someone of your "vintage" can see well enough to use irons?

Nice gun. Fine looking goat too!

It is.


And for frame of reference those two critters were the last I shot with open sights.

Continued to use aperture sights for a couple more years but eventually had to scope everything.

Ingwe is infamous. The zebra is merely notable.

Good point.

Just curious: Do you remember your age at the time? At 56 I'm afraid my iron sight days are long gone.

Yeah, that was on my 1999 Safari with JB and his wife. I was 47.


( FWIW Ive worn coke bottle glasses since I was 2 years old, so you may have more time...)

Salute'


Glad you made it home from the Messican Annex!


Jerry

Lots of nice Mausers from that era on GB between $600 and $1000. I've got all I need (for now,...I think), so have at 'em.

The FN Deluxes can often be found with good receiver sights, if irons are your bag. Most don't have open rear sights.

And since this is a thread about the 7x57 I'm damn glad thats what I had in my hands when I shot the zebra.

He was at about 140 yards, a tad more than quartering away, so I thought I'd slip a 175 gr. NPT behind his ribs, rake his vitals and be good.

He WAS indeed more than quartering away, and the shot hit his left hip, broke it, and went ahead to angle forward, rake his vitals and kill him.....roughly five feet of penetration .



The infamous part came when tracking him. My PH, Myself, and Gideon the tracker went after him, no small pool of experience there.....but we ALL missed the zebra taking a corner.
He only went about 200 yards, but it took us a couple hours to find him....and the corner we missed.

Pretty good penetration from that old cartridge! Do you remember the velocity?

Nope. Never clocked it out of that gun....it was going so fast I couldn't even see it though!

Unless I start shooting cattle, I expect they'd over-penetrate on pigs.

Let's see... 1999, 47..,

Good grief, I may actually be older than ingwe! Not good.


Every morning I check the obituaries. If I ever see my name, I'm going to lie down.

See....I'm not as old as you reprobates make me out to be! Theres lots of guys on the 'fire older than me.

But I do remember churning butter as a child, and waiting for the car radio to "warm up" before you could get any tunes......