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Exactly.

Mark,
Something like that would be perfect.
To me, the "7x57 vs 7-08" arguments remind me of the 6.5X55 vs the 260. Yes, they are very, very similar. Yet, to me, the old fashion "Metrics" just have a certain appeal that others do not.
YMMV.

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My little Mark X Mauser in 7x57 will shoot with any of them! Changed the scope , but that's all, loves 139's anything!

good looking rifle--mannlicher w/crossbolt

Thanks Tomk, but pad says "Winchester"

Looks like a Mark X Mauser to me.

No DSTs or butterknife bolt handles on a Winchester 70.

referring to the wood, Otis

I have both the 7X57 and the 7-08. I got a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle in 7-08 a few years ago, with the intention of making it into my go-to deer rifle. So far, it just hasn't happened. I'm sure it's a good cartridge, and I'm sure it is all I would ever need, but so far I've not been overwhelmed by what I've seen. I have a Winchester 70 in 7X57, that I've not shot in a good many years, but all this talk about the cartridge has gotten me to thinking about dragging it out of the safe. Performance wise, I wouldn't turn around for the difference between the two, and I do have to admit to liking that short action on the 7-08. But, the 7-08 can't come close to matching the history behind the 7mm Mauser.

Here's one of those Florida tigers Pappy was talking about on another thread.

That's quite an American "warty" there Rev!

Tomk, yes the stock is a Mannlicher my favorite stock on any rifle! Yes it started life as a mark X , barrel cut to 19" and custom stock, it shoots very good!

no sights, right?

where did you snag the barrel band?

? Barrel band, are you talking about mine?

Nice piggy, Parson!

Load?

For me, the attraction of the 7 is the nifty old rifles it's often found in. Regrettably, I havent run into the right one yet. Had a decent sporterized Mauser by Flaigs of PA back in the '70s, but it was kinda clubby and went down the road. My other one was one of those Ruger Number 1s that couldn't put 3 shots in the same zip code. Gotta keep looking.

WDM Bell and Jim Corbett sure helped put 7x57 in lights, but Im Inclined to think more game has been brought down with
the .270win than 7x57. The more widespread affordability and availability of rifles in .27Owin since 1925 being one major factor.

The substantially more affordable M70 did the same for .375H&H sales (vs) having to purchase a premium bespoke
British magnum mauser.

About Jim Corbett and his Rigby .275 bore,
- he was given it as a gift after killing the Champawat tigress in 1907, for which he used a .500cal.
Corbett then in 1909 obtained a Jeffery .450/400 SxS ,being the rifle he actually used for the vast majority of his cat kills.
A gun later owned by Elmer Keith.


More interesting than Corbett (re: to .275 bore and big cats ) but relatively unknown, are the Sikh officer father and son
WDM Bell mentions in his writings....With one .275 bore rifle, they collected 90 bounty lions.

We like to tell the stories of Bell and Corbett, and their use of the 7X57 (275 Rigby), and they're good stories. Back in the early 1900's, there was an American missionary in China who was slaying man eating tigers over there with a 22 Savage High Power. Harry R. Caldwell was his name, and he wrote about his experiences, with one book being "Blue Tiger". Caldwell liked the Savage 99's, and also used the 250-3000 and the 303 Savage cartridges.

yes Otis--was interested in the band on front of the stock

James--thanks for the book tip on Caldwell

That's the Ingwe Special and I was using/experimenting with a factory load, the Prvi Grom, loaded with their 158 grain bullet at (factory specs) 2461 fps. It's mostly a copper bullet with a very thin lead core. Below right is a picture of a bullet I fired into a stack of dry newspaper (Mule Deer's preferred test medium). The one on the left was a Hornady 139 grain Interlock fired into the same stack. Big difference.

Anyway, the pig took two shots to drop. I pulled the first shot, and the pig made his way into the palmetto thicket out of which you can see the drag marks. The second shot went just behind his ear.

I never got an accurate weight since, on the camp cleaning rack, he was too long to lift completely off the ground; but with his head and shoulder still on the ground, the scale registered over 280 pounds. So he probably weighed a touch over 300.

Notice one thing about him though: he'd been cut. Several years ago, the rancher trapped a bunch of piglets, cut them, then let them go. Another rancher on the other side of the highway is always doing the same thing, so I don't know if this pig was one of the original group or one that migrated from the other property, but seeing that he was cut, he went to the game processor. He is one of six or eight cut pigs I've taken in the past few years, three or four of which have come in at about the same size. When they don't have anything to do but eat, sleep, and hide, they can really get big. Cut or not, though, as far as the table is concerned, I'd still rather have something in the 50-75 pound range.

Thanks. Those special glasses Pappy was talking about - you know, the ones that put stripes on everything I see - are hanging around my neck.

Nice one Rev bullet comparison too! I'm shooting the SST 139 gr. they seem to hold together better than the Interlocks!