Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What is your longest Range Kill with a 8x57 ?

I'm sorry, it was a 175gr Sierra with a load of varget. I was working kinda toward the top of the book. I never Chronied it but I doubt I was getting 2700fps. A couple of 100# deer with pass through shots. No major bones hit, just ribs. Didn't pay too much attention to the wound channel but the exit hole was about quarter size. IIRC

75 yards. One morning in the early '60's, Dad was heading for work but, came back in and told me to go run the crows out of our corn field. I grabbed the only "varmint" rifle I had, a 1944 bcd Mauser, planning to sneak and snipe them. Load was Remington 170 factory.
I was spotted and they flew whereupon, I snapped off a shot. The crow folded like he had been hit with a one and a quarter oz. load of 7 1/2 and when I found him, his head had been almost completely severed.
Unlucky crow? Probably but it sure did boost the confidence of a 15 year old boy.

Medium sized wt doe at about 80 yards through some thick stuff. She made the mistake while leaving of pausing in an open spot. Speer 170 gr went in at the back of the rib cage and exited between her front shoulders. Very effective!

Keep em coming guys ,love hearing about what this old cartridge
Can do !
Craig

Nothing to brag about, 80 yards is about it for me too...shot a nice Kudu Bull at that range with the 8x57.

230yds with a Oberndorf DSB 8x57S. 196gr factory Norma.

Nice deer.

Cull buck, 168yds DRT, 200gr accubond, Brno 21F, steel tube weaver K4

great !
Lot more people hunt with this grand old cartridge than I imagined !

It,s like asking how far I could spit a sunfower shell. Good rounds need no asking.

My first cow elk was at appx 425 yds shot with 185 gr rem core-lokt out of my turkish mauser at appx 2650 fps. Perfect lung shot,went about 75 yards leaving a blood trail in the snow a blind man could've followed.

125 yds. 7 pt. I think it was a Speer 170 gr. The Buck disappeared. Didn't see it drop or run off, So I went down to check it out. Shot thru the neck. I was aiming for the lungs.

Neat thread.

I'm pleasantly surprised at how many folks have hunted the 8mm.

I've never even fired an 8x57 in it's original chambering. Don't confuse that with not having fired a Mauser - I own, and hunt with several - just never in original chambering.

*note* A simple rebore, and chamering has turned many ol' K98 Mausers to 35 Whelen*

'Nother Mauser I've longed for but never fired, is a pre-war Kurz. The original "light" rifle, with no question as to quality, strength, or function. Most were turned into high end customs, and sell for BIG money nowdays. I've handled several, two of which were customized here, in the US, back in the late-twenties, or early thirties. Simply amazing craftsmanship. I'm talkin' a bolt so smooth in it's working, it's as if the rifle were on auto-run. Wood with fit, finish, and checkering that just says "LOOK", and engraving that stirs the selfishness of anyone who sees it.

You want "best" - the Kurz is my entry.

Good luck.