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Ingwewife has GOOD luck hunting........





maybe NOT SO MUCH finding hubby!!

For the woods I always favored the .358 Win in a Featherweight. They weigh less than the .257R's that they made then. The larger round just suits that hunting in my view.

Then when the ranges get longer the little .257R does not have the stuff like the larger rounds do. To each his own on this however.

The 99F in the picture is a .358. Thats why I don't own or want a .257R. Too weak and heavy for the woods and too weak for the open.

Keeps on going

You mean Eileen and I have to resuscitate all the antelope and deer we've shot with various .257's at 300-400 yards?

Stunt shooter

When I ordered a new Ford convertible in 1969 I had a choice of a 6 or an 8. I got the 429 with air.

Yeah..., and funny how it wasn't "too heavy" for a woman.

For some men (strictly speaking gender here) there seems to be a need for bigger bores, and as seen, bigger engines... could be a 'compensation' issue I guess...


A girlfriend, when choosing her rifle, chose a 257 Roberts. She was able to bear the weight of that gun just fine, perhaps because she was a strapping 5'2" and 118lbs. It wasn't too weak of a cartridge in her hands, but then again she was shooting those screaming 117 grain factory loads.

Guessing you're still running an 8 track also. You've never figured out that [bleep] changes, but that's what makes you a complete frigging idiot.

And rightfully so. It is a great little cartridge.

Now that is some funny stuff right there.
"Too weak and heavy for the woods"
I feel like I am standing at the gun counter at Sportsman's Warehouse or something.

It's rather ironic that I chose THAT post to read when wondering whether you really oughta be on ignore !

Or trying to adopt a kid born from a brother/sister relationship.

Geez Don, do you always have to be Mr. Negative, Mr. Half-Full, Mr. Rain On The Parade? I know that hunting deer in VT is the very definition of frustration and can turn a person bitter, but do you have to drag all of your negative baggage with you to the campfire? If you never actually shoot an animal, the rifle/cartridge combination is pretty meaningless, regardless of bore size, don't you think?

Jeff

PS - If your Savage 99 is an "F", it appears to have a mis-matched "DL/M" stock on it.

You can't see me, Jeff, but I am standing to clap. Nice post.

Yes, we can see you. and pull your pants up and get that thing looked at...it ain't right.

Bahahahahaha!! Never mind that knot, I am hoping to get that burned off soon.

In a way the 257 Roberts is an ok round just like a hundred others. It's just that it's about dead.

It never caught on being a little too big as a varmint round and a little too small as a game round. It was designed by a famous and very good Schuetzen rifeman however.

The rifles the 257r. were chambered in back then were too big and heavy for game hunting with 26" barrels yet the round is light in a way and not really powerful enough. Most of us can shoot better guns.

The market has spoken and the little 257r. is dead.

The "market" is mostly about those of little knowledge and great opinion standing in line at Wally world the week before season opens to get junior his new wizbang deer rifle. Has little to do with deciding a cartridges worth for hunting.

But your 358 Win. is just burning up the sales charts, right?

Too-Shay.........