How many have used/use the 7 mm mauser and how do you like it.Heard that Karamojo Bell of elephant hunting fame used the 275 Rigby which is basically the 7x57 for many of his elephants. How versatile is this round and what are your favourite loads for it.Thank you all for your input.
Raj My nefew has been using 7-08 with great results so for.It's pretty close to your 7-57.The rifle is my Dad's but i don't think he'll see it anytime soon.So far a couple of moose and one elk and several deer have been taken.I think with a smaller cal bullet construction and shot placement are everything.
Hi 280 Rem,rhino and grizzly with the 7x57!!!.That book sounds interesting.Can you please give the name of the book and the author's name.What would be the best place to buy it.Thank you.
I am buying my first 7x57 this weekend. A 7x57 Ruger 1A. I am gettting it from a guy in Washington Sate. I will be like a kid before Christmas waiting for it to arrive. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I will use it deer hunting this coming season here in PA. I'll bet it will do fine <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> The 139-160gr 7mm bullet at velocities this case can provide would easily be able to take anything in the lower 48. I know with the 160 & 175 grain bullets it would be able to take even the large bears.............but at that point I'd want a bigger cartridge. As for Elephants.............I'll leave that to Bell <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
IIRC, JO'C's wife Eleanor shot most of her game with a 7x57. JO'C's book THE HUNTING RIFLE devoted a chapter to the 7x57. Most 7x57 rifles are throated for the long 175 grain bullets, so accuracy from shorter/lighter bullets that have to jump to the rifling may not be the best. I currently have 5 rifles in 7x57, including the rare Rem 700 MR and Ruger 77 RSI, and have shot a few whitetails with this cartridge.
If you reload, I think that you could select a bullet that would make the 7x57 a good choice for any game that isn't too large, cape buffalo and elephant, or too dangerous, lions and tigers, and big bears. The next time I go to Africa, I'm planning to take a 7x57 and a 9.3x62 for plains game.
If I ever shoot the barrel out of my favorite 308, I'd seriously consider rebarreling to 7x57. Probably got about 3,000 rounds to go, though.
So . . . .
Order 2,000 rounds of milsurp and shoot that barrel out!
Should have that new barell on in no time . . . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I am really thinking about making my 308 into a 6x57.
I have 1,000 rounds through it, so I am about a 1/3 of the way there. . . . . . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif" alt="" />
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Finn Aagard's father shot out a 7x57 on game, not paper. On all manner of African game. It was one of Finn's favorite rounds, the other being the '06. Finn took elk with 160gr bullets. My buddy's wife used her 7-08 and a 154gr Hornady bullet to take her elk. For deer the 139gr Horndy can't be beat.
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Here is my sweet Steyr Mod M 1/2 stock, double set triggers chambered in 7x57. IMHO, good for anything in N. America. I read somewhere that more Elephants have been killed with a 7mm Mauser than any other cartridge. I reload 140 gr Noslers in mine....bad medicine for the WTD. Regards, Rick.
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I've killed deer with the Rem. 175gr rn and 140gr Nosler Part. and Hornaday Custom AND Hornaday Light Mag.139gr. Plus pigs(big pigs) and alligators, Its a great round .
I have used the 7x57mm on a variety of game. I used to own Rugers and now I own a CZ 550 American in 7x57mm. It is one sweetheart of a caliber and rifle. I shoot 162 grain Hornady SSTs and 160 grain Nosler Partitions. With my handloads, my rifle, I can get velocities past the 2,800 fps mark. My rifle will put three 162 grain SSTs into .481 inch groups quite often with sandbag rests and off a solid bench. The largest game I have taken with it has been elk. I remember one fairly respectable bull taken with a 160 gr. partition at 2,815 chronographed. He was 325 yards away standing perfectly broadside. At the shot, just behind the elbow, he took a couple of steps back and then sat on his butt like a huge puppy dog, then fell over without even a kick. I lasered him a 324 and change, closer to 325 than 324. I have taken cow elk with the caliber and the 162 grain Hornady. I also used it for antelope, whitetail deer, mule deer, wild hog, and even a wild turkey in Texas. The attachment shows my groups with the rifle. It is just the rifle I use. I am confident in it, I am confident in the caliber. I am confident in myself using this caliber and rifle. Tom Purdom
I really don't think there's anything a person can't take cleanly with the 7x57. It's probably about as close to a bangflopper elk cartridge as there is. I like the Hornady 154gr interloc spirepts, pushed by H414, shoot flat enough to dump antelope at near 400 yds, and will peforate both shoulders of elk at 200.
the most expensive bullet there is isn't worth a plug nickel if it don't go where its supposed to. www.historicshooting.com
But I will warn all of you ... 7x57 brass in MN anyway is rarer than Swede ... spent the last week scouring Gander Mountain, Cabelas, a couple Sportsman's Whorehouses (tho accidentally caught at 6x42 SII for 169 while at one of those ... which followed me home) but nobody stocks the brass ... feeling like I am wildcatting this classic ... not that there is anything wrong with cult followings
The Seven Times Fifty-seven Mouser,is simply Fred Flintstone's 7-08.
I couldn't formulate the persuasion to abandon a NATO fueled offering,for a nostalgic sample that dupes same,less those logistics and greater COAL requirements.
I'd not fret either bringing home the bacon,but the 7-08 is the path of least resistance...................
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