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Heck my LGS has 5/6 boxes on the shelf.

Doc

My 257 Roberts shoots the 100gr BT the best and do they every kill deer!!!

I'm new to the whole .257 Roberts thing, having won a Browning A-Bolt II Medallion in that caliber as a raffle prize early last October and just in time for huntin' season.

I did all of my larger game hunting with it from October to the end of last month. I used plain old cup and core 117 gr. Hornady Interlock BTSP's over 40 grains of IMR 4350 in Nosler brass. So far, that's the only load I've shot out of the rifle. It's sub-M.O.A. and seemed to work fine on the mule deer, cow elk, whitetails, and feral hogs I've shot with it thus far.

But I'm not surprised. I might be new to the .257 Roberts but I have a three-decade long relationship with the .250 Savage via the Ruger M77RL Ultralight I bought new in that caliber back in 1985. They seem like "peas in a pod" so far, too me.

I used to use the Sierra 120 grain GameKing HPBT but for the first several years that I had my .250 Savage Ultralight, I lived fairly close to Sierra's former Santa Fe Springs, CA plant and used to buy them (and other bullets for other firearms) by the pound in paper sacks. It took me decades to shoot through all of my 120 gr. GK's. I tried the Hornady 117 gr. BTSP Interlock in the .250 Savage when I ran out of 120 gr. GK's and couldn't find any locally to me. They worked just as well as the 120 gr. GK's had for me, so I wound up using them in my Roberts.

I really like these little quarter-bores because they seem to provide me "everything I need" in terms of effective range, accuracy, and game-taking thump and penetration, but "nothing I don't" like harsh recoil and ear-splitting report.

Being such a long time .250 Savage fanboy, it pains me to admit it but I think if I could only have one rifle, the Roberts has just that little bit extra "oomph" to psyche me in to thinking that I could kill everything I want to hunt from bull elk on down with one, if it was all I had.

100 grain TTSX over 46 grain H4350, it it does not die you missed.

I like my 257bob, 722 Remington. It handles 100gr Hornady's over IMR4831 very well. The Hornady bullets handle whitey very well.

Whitey ain't that tough an animal. You put any decent bullet where it's suppose to be and whitey is gonna die.

I've started working with this Kimber Classic Select in .257. So far it shoots well with 110gr Accubonds and Reloader 22. I have some Hybrid 100v and will be trying it over the course of the summer, and will probably use it this fall. I also have a few of the rare "+P" cases.



Last season I used a .25-06 of uncertain parentage and a mild load of the 110 AB, running 3000 fps or so, and it did an impressive job on a doe, so I am looking forward to running it in the .257.

You don't need 60 grains of powder in the case to kill a deer

I have pretty much settled on the 100 gr Hornady SP in my .257 Rbts at about 3000 fps

There's one of these Kimber Select in my future.....lovely lightweight package...perfect for the Roberts.

I have one in the safe that has never been shot. One of these days, I will try it.

donsm70

As good as that rifle looks in that picture, it is even more handsome in person.

I was afraid to touch it, lest I have an overwhelming urge to take a fourth job and buy one for myself.

Guess I'll be the first to kill a critter with it. I loaned it to Carl and I think he was afraid to take it out

Tex....tax time is here.

You should sell me that Roberts!

You guys and your Kimber Selects - it's you all's fault I was forced to snag this 257 R sitting lonely on the used gun rack. Just now getting ready to work on some loads to see how it shoots...

I got one of these...they are pretty danged cute!

Is there suppose to be something special about the +p cases?

The wood on that kimber is fantastic

(edit- BOTH of them)

Good looking Knife

Mike Miller

My latest project is a early 50's mod 70 target in the 257 BOB, It sat in the corner in a zip up gun bag for many years after the owner passed, I would make a grown man ,mod 70 loon cry ,most was fuzz but trigger bow and a few spots on out side of barrel had a few pits, some way the bore escaped all rust and is fantastic SOOO , Its going in a high comb MC stock, The crown get single pointed to fresh metal, stock gets refinished and pillar bedded, free floated.I have no option but midnight blue ceracoat, just a few to many outside pits for rust blue... Im a huge 110 accubond, 115 gr BT's and if it likes em the 115 Berger VLD's. Im calling it my old man Whitetail ear shooter! If it comes close to my 53' mod 70 shilen barreled Pacific Rimrock /Borden stocked 25-06 or a very early 25 wssm Coyote lite it will be a pure WT hammer! Photos will follow after work is done and range time happens, I love the 3000 fps, 110 gr combo!!! very best and long live the old 70's and the BOB! very best WinPoor