Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Sell me on the 7x57

Well, weather it matters to some "pickle lickin" jackass or not, I went ahead and put the gun on lay-a-way since I wouldn't make it to the shop for a while. The scope will come off is for no other reason than it's a glossy finish I just don't care for. Maybe it's my stroked ego that it offends, not sure, but the scope's coming off. Probably add a Burris atop it instead.
Again, to those helpful - THANX! And again, to those others...well, nevermind.

I agree. Let's not talk about anything. Don't you just love those forums where no one talks about anything.

Hmmm, let's see, "Oh there's an interesting looking thread."

"Woops. Last post July 13..............2009."

Perhaps I'm a "pickle licker" too????

Now go find an older M8 4x28 long tube and you'll have the perfect outfit.

I DO like that idea!

Well, I'm a bit late to add my nudge, so I'll just say that I'm heading home with a freezer full of antelope meat provided by just such a rifle as you've purchased. Mine does wear an M8 6x36 though.

You'll like it a lot.

I read the ignorant, insecure nonsense you post and I've just got to wonder how socially inept you really are. Instead of asking substantive questions like what reloading tips you'd need to know, what the availability of components or loaded ammo is, what the accuracy reputation for this chambering has been in the No. 1 or a WHOLE myriad of useful and objective data, you ask for complete internet strangers to "sell" you on the 7x57mm.

You're either capable of making decisions for yourself or you're not. And right now it's looking like you're not.

Are you into Judy Garland and guys in tight leather pants?

BlkHawk73, don't think the 7x57 needs selling to those who understand it ... or to those who need to be sold. As any other cartridge if you use it well, you'll sell yourself on it.

Seemed to kill as well for Eleanor O'Connor as it did for the Spaniards on San Juan Hill and the Boers. Still seems to do so, as JB points out. The more things change they more they stay the same.

Unless it's a a J. Rigby 275 in a bolt, it's hard to get more classical than a Ruger No. 1 in 7x57.

Get a 280.

I like cases with long necks. My experiences with the "dreaded donut" in the .308 back in my HP silhouette days were more than enough to convince me that I didn't want bullet heels extending down below the neck into the shoulder area.

Paul

What's to "sell" Rebed the foreend and you will have a sub MOA rifle that's hotter than a 7mm08, light, fast handling and has class beyond belief.

My first centerfire was a pre 64 Win 70 in 30-06, on which I really learned to shoot and reload. Dad won it for me in a sales contest and it was a nice high school graduation present that summer of '63.

In my later years I have learned to appreciate the 6.5x55 Swedes, having collected a few and lucked into a nice little Ruger red pad 1-A in 7x57 that needed quite a bit of refinishing on the wood. It turned out to have very good wood under a totally clouded ruined factory finish. While not my most accurate rifle it is surely one of the nicest sporters to shoot I have. Another nice mild round is a 9.3x57 in a pretty Husqvarna M46 sporter.

Everything you said about those old Mauser cartridges is so true!