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That looks great, Rev!

Thanks! I don't think I'll be dragging it through the marsh, though. The way it's built it probably ought to be on a sheep forum.

Well in practical terms the 7mm x 57mm is plenty for about 95 to 98% of the worlds big game that you can go and hunt these days. Plenty for pretty much everything here in NA! It might be questionable for Brown Bear, most would never even hunt those and the ones that get the chance, for the most part, it's once or twice in a lifetime. The hard part is going to be finding an Elk to shoot, then maybe getting close enough to get off a shot. Have fun, and expect to do a lot of walking and some long days.

Oh, heck no.... You need a 6.5 Creed...

My .260 bang flopped an elk at @ 150 yards, using a 140 gr. Corelokt factory bullet. As well as several caribou out to over 300 yard.

I don't see a problem.

If I get lucky and my outfitter gets a cancellation I'll probably take a 7x57 for a cow elk hunt. I have a decent load with the 150 gr. Partition and just a hair over 2700 FPS with groups slightly less than an inch. Re17 and that bullet seem to be made for each other. Probably test is a few times more to see if all that goodness holds up. Just too hot to get to the range these days. I used to go shoot when it was over 100* but these days I don't take to all the heat as well as I used to.
I've noticed that the O'Connors preferred 160 gr. bullets for all their hunts with the 7x57. Makes me wonder if I should give them a try as well?
Paul B.

The two I shot with a 150 gr. Core lokt at 2650 seemed pretty dead when I packed them out....... A 7x57 is my big gun.....

very cool story! makes me want to have one

as always way cool, is that one of the 7x57 you sold to the good rev?

150 ELDX, 7mm-08, 2790 FPS at the muzzle, 409 yards.



Your wife has plenty gun.





P

It was back in 1946-47, but my dad took an elk with a 7x57, 175 grain load from an iron-sighted, m98 Mauser, with a 20” barrel in the Leadville, Colorado area. Well under 100 yard shot, he stated.

I hunted with two friends for elk in Minturn ( right down the road a tad from Leadville) back in '82! One of the guys we stayed with ( my friends college friend had married a Forest Ranger) carried an exact copy of that 7x57! His had a scope mounted. I wonder if they were related? Small world!

My "do it all" 7X57 load for my push feed Model 70 Featherweight is a 140 grain Nosler Partition, IMR 4350 powder in a R-P case with WLR primer. When I say "do it all", I mean deer, antelope, black bear, elk and if I can ever draw a Utah moose tag, I'll take my 7X57. By the way, I'm a Utah resident with 19 moose bonus points and can't draw a blasted tag. Heck, it took me 13 years to draw my limited entry muzzleloader elk tag. That was worth the wait though as my elk scored 362 points on a public land hunt. Hunt with confidence with your 7X57.