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It has a handsome stock. The figure is superb. The barrel looks like SS and a little heavy.
To me the 257R would be a coyote gun. Like my other game chambers it has too much bullet for chucks and I can shoot more gun at game. I am going hunting in an hour or so. My latest pet is a custom in 300 Win. Mag. Now that's really too much gun for here. Nice rifle however. Kind of wish it were a 257 R. in a way. On the other hand it does have more range.
I looked for factory ammo and all that WW listed was the 117gr?
Its just another cartridge that did not catch on. Otherwise it's the favorite of some and that's good.
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Here is a nice one in a Brno 22. Link
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I looked for factory ammo and all that WW listed was the 117gr? Look a little harder. Midway lists factory ammo from Winchester, Remington, Federal, Doubletap, Horandy, Norma, and HSM. Pertty hard to find, though. Had to go to Midwayusa.com, and click on ammunition. ![wink wink](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/wink.gif)
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Here is a nice one in a Brno 22. Link I'm gonna get fired for looking at porn if pics like this one keep getting posted...
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Never shot a whitetail with one but mine was a wonderful muley gun. Wish I had it back...it was a pf Winchester 70 Featherweight. The one I had was a bit picky on bullets but once I pushed heavy loads of 4350 with 117-120 gr. bullets it did just fine.
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I haven't been without a Roberts-chambered rifle in over 30 years. First high-power rifle purchase was when I was in high school - a push-feed M70 Fwt. Traded that for a Rem 700 Classic and it progressed from there. I can honestly say it was my first and it will definitely be my last. When I start whittling down, the Roberts will remain. Not sure which rifle it will be....but the Roberts will remain.
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My 9 yo son is excited to be receiving his first deer rifle... a 'campfire special' in 257 Roberts on a Turkish mauser action w/ an Apex take-off.
His oldest sister's boyfriend, a gifted artist, is helping him design a stencil for his rattle-canned (temporary) tupperware stock. Once he is full grown we'll get him a custom walnut stock, having made a few refinements along the way.
Can't wait to see my boy take down his first deer with HIS rifle... I have a feeling he'll take many, many heads of game with it.
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I can't imagine it not being anything but ideal for WT seeing that my Savage 99, 250-3000 smacks the piss out of them. That with a 87 gr hot cor. I also owned a 25-06 that was wicked on deer. Many a fine cartridge is out there that just didn't win the popularity contest due to poor or no representation by some big name blow hard. It will do anything a 243 will do and will just about duplicate a 6.5 Swede.
Keep your powder dry and stay frosty my friends.
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My 9 yo son is excited to be receiving his first deer rifle... a 'campfire special' in 257 Roberts on a Turkish mauser action w/ an Apex take-off.
His oldest sister's boyfriend, a gifted artist, is helping him design a stencil for his rattle-canned (temporary) tupperware stock. Once he is full grown we'll get him a custom walnut stock, having made a few refinements along the way.
Can't wait to see my boy take down his first deer with HIS rifle... I have a feeling he'll take many, many heads of game with it. Please allow me to tell a quick story and make a suggestion. When my son took his first whitetail with a Ruger 77mkII Ultralight, it was chambered for the .257 Roberts. After the whooping and celebrating was done, and he had put his hands on his deer, I asked him if he had a knife on him. His little 8 year old eyes looked sheepish, when he had to reply in the negative. I sat down on the ground beside him and that big old doe, then produced the small boker fixed blade that I had purchased for him. I told him that I couldn't give it to him and asked if he had any money. All he had was the penny I had given him for luck when we left to go hunting that morning. I took his penny and gave him that little knife, explaining that my Grandfather had taught me never to give or accept a knife from a friend. That I should always "buy" or "sell" with the purchase price of a coin. I got the hug I was looking for, and then borrowed his knife to show him how to dress his deer. He's finally doing his own now, but I'd do another if I could go back to that hunt. If you got him a .257 to hunt deer with, you would do well to make sure he has a knife, because he'll be needing it.
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis
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CT great idea; thanks for that! I'll do the "suprise" thing, too.
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I inherited my great grandmother's 722 in 257R. She killed a huge muley with it back in the good ol' days. When II was 14a I harvested my largest blacktail with that gun with 240 yard shot to the boiler room. I also killed my first buck with an old 30-30 that my grandfather handed down to my dad. Hopefully someday I can hand those rifles down to my kids.
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My 9 yo son is excited to be receiving his first deer rifle... a 'campfire special' in 257 Roberts on a Turkish mauser action w/ an Apex take-off.
His oldest sister's boyfriend, a gifted artist, is helping him design a stencil for his rattle-canned (temporary) tupperware stock. Once he is full grown we'll get him a custom walnut stock, having made a few refinements along the way.
Can't wait to see my boy take down his first deer with HIS rifle... I have a feeling he'll take many, many heads of game with it. Please allow me to tell a quick story and make a suggestion. When my son took his first whitetail with a Ruger 77mkII Ultralight, it was chambered for the .257 Roberts. After the whooping and celebrating was done, and he had put his hands on his deer, I asked him if he had a knife on him. His little 8 year old eyes looked sheepish, when he had to reply in the negative. I sat down on the ground beside him and that big old doe, then produced the small boker fixed blade that I had purchased for him. I told him that I couldn't give it to him and asked if he had any money. All he had was the penny I had given him for luck when we left to go hunting that morning. I took his penny and gave him that little knife, explaining that my Grandfather had taught me never to give or accept a knife from a friend. That I should always "buy" or "sell" with the purchase price of a coin. I got the hug I was looking for, and then borrowed his knife to show him how to dress his deer. He's finally doing his own now, but I'd do another if I could go back to that hunt. If you got him a .257 to hunt deer with, you would do well to make sure he has a knife, because he'll be needing it. Great story! I'm going to be stealing that with my boys! ![laugh laugh](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif)
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MADMAX,
I inherited my grandmother's 722 .257. She was mostly a meat hunter, so mostly shot deer, though did take one cow elk with the rifle, using the standard Remington factory load with a 117-grain roundnose at 2650 fps.
It's taken the first big game animal for several people in our family, and in my hands has taken a bunch of pronghorns, whitetails and mule deer, including a big buck muley. Oh, and a pile of chucks out to 500-600 yards.
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You know, Ingwe would consider it sacriledge to shoot a pile of chucks with anything that doesn't have "AI" after the numbers...
If you're fixin' to put a hole in something, make it a hole to remember.
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I bought one in 257 Roberts and 257 AI the same day from John Smith at the old Nashville gun show.
Shot both to fireform brass, and work up a "hunting" load.
I loaned it to friends, but in 20 years I never carried it into the woods.
Dang, shoulda shot a deer with it so I had an opinion to grumble over.
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I,m really like to shoot my 257R model 70. Also have a Remington 760 in the safe in 257R. Got 3 boxes of shell with the model 70 when I bought it one was a box of 100 winchester silver tips, ran the them thru my cronogragh and got 2944FPS. May still have part of the box. Box said 1951 same year as the rifle. How do you tell what year a Remington 760 was made?
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Bought mine in 1987/8, sweet shooting lil A-Bolt ...
Sierra 117gr., Sierra 100gr., Nosler 100gr. all equal bang flop..
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Bottom line on the 257Bob as is the same for all 6mm,and all 25 Cal. Use an adequate big game bullet, do your part and it WILL do theirs [bleep] Period. Every time, all the time. It's not the cartridge that's inadequate, it's the [bleep] idiot jerking the trigger.
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Since I have been shooting my new Ruger #1 in 257 Roberts, ifind myself sincerely wishing it would have been in consideration for my older son while he was in his teens. Since he is a lefty, the choices were limited. Instead, I started him with a Savage 110 LH '06, which had more recoil than he could shoot accurately. He has since become a great rifle shot, but I'm guessing it could have been so much easier.
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