Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles The perfect 7x57 load?

24 grains of Blue Dot will do that also....

but for my couple of 7 x 57s.... the best hunting load, involves bullet weights from 139 to 175 grains... but they all are fueled by 40 grains of 3031....

My Model 70 will shoot anything you feed it... the Ruger 77, will only shoot the 40 grains of 3031.. regardless of bullet weight..

those Ruger 7 x 57s in the 77 Mk 2, had to be one of the most finickly guns out there for that caliber...

I had two of them and both gave ya 5 inch groups at 100 yds with Anything but the 40 grains of 3031... and that gave you a half inch group... didn't question it... just smiled and went ahead and used it...