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I love accurate rifles as much as the next guy, but how small are the pigs and deer you plan on shooting ?
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Fantastic, love when old rifles shoot like that.
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Yeah, but he's now shooting 150-grain Ballistic Tips, so.... Yeah...but I'm shooting them in a .275 Rigby...made for lighter bullets and Red Deer.... Ingwe did that?! Me thinks someone has some explaining to do! 
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You'll have something if it repeats even close to that performance. I'll probably never know because it's only once in a blue moon that I can repeat it myself!
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No need to tweak anything with that load! Exactly - you do NOT fix what ain't broke... Lee, that MRC that you adjusted the trigger on will do it too - and this is a factory 158-grain Prvi Grom. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/JdL2u3Xm.jpg)
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I love accurate rifles as much as the next guy, but how small are the pigs and deer you plan on shooting ? Florida deer are pretty small. Florida pigs not so much. (BTW, that's the old Ingwe Special in that pic) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/bo006Lim.jpg)
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Yeah, but he's now shooting 150-grain Ballistic Tips, so.... Yeah...but I'm shooting them in a .275 Rigby...made for lighter bullets and Red Deer.... Ingwe did that?! Me thinks someone has some explaining to do! He did 😂
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Yeah, but he's now shooting 150-grain Ballistic Tips, so.... Yeah...but I'm shooting them in a .275 Rigby...made for lighter bullets and Red Deer.... Gotta back Ingwe on this one. I have killed Red deer with my John Rigby .275, handloaded with 140 grain bullets at 2900fps. One shot drops too, even though my bullets didn't have a lead tip. John
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I think I'm going to stop right there. Ja think???? 
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Yeah, but he's now shooting 150-grain Ballistic Tips, so.... Yeah...but I'm shooting them in a .275 Rigby...made for lighter bullets and Red Deer.... Ingwe did that?! Me thinks someone has some explaining to do! He did 😂 Yeah, but that was back in the day when NBTs were thin jacketed and explosive. Besides, I say again, that was a 7x57.. Mine is a .275 Rigby 
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I love accurate rifles as much as the next guy, but how small are the pigs and deer you plan on shooting ? Florida deer are pretty small. Florida pigs not so much. (BTW, that's the old Ingwe Special in that pic) Beautiful one of a kind rifle!
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Well done. Who was your smith?
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Beautiful one of a kind rifle! It actually is. And I think the addition of the sights and barrel band swivel makes it balance about perfect.
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I love accurate rifles as much as the next guy, but how small are the pigs and deer you plan on shooting ? Florida deer are pretty small. Florida pigs not so much. (BTW, that's the old Ingwe Special in that pic) I got to look that rifle over and really liked it. I bought my own 7x57 Featherweight after that.
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Just out of curiosity, where did you find a 1909 Belgium mauser chambered in 7X57?
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My Ruger 77 Mk2 in 7 x 57, new out of the box threw shoot gun groups...
I was pretty frustrated with both of the ones I had.. got two for the price of one...
nothing worked.... UNTIL... I tried one last load.... 175 grain RN Hornady... with 40 grains of 3031..
half inch group....worked the same in BOTH Ruger 7 X 57s...
same charge with 139 to 175 grain bullets pretty much the same thing...
Hornady lied about one thing... with the 175 it claimed 2400 fps...
for some reason, both Rugers plus my Model 70 Featherweight, the MV was 2650 fps instead... in ALL 3 rifles...
no complaints.. I use what works...
the Featherweight, using Speer 160s SP, or the Nosler 140 grain B/Tips.... those I run 44 grains of IMR 4895 or 4064.. the 140s, give me an MV of 2800 fps, out of its 22 inch barrel....it works so why change..
the Ruger is fed 40 grains of 3031, regardless of bullet weight...
Blue Dot with Speer varmint bullets, gives me 100 yd, ONE hole groups... but that is a story for a different day....
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Just out of curiosity, where did you find a 1909 Belgium mauser chambered in 7X57? It's a M1909 Argentine. The barrel was obviously a rebarrel as, as I said, it had a really heavy profile - .655 at the muzzle. Less rings and bases it weighed 7lbs 15.7 oz. on my postal scale, and that was with a 30 oz Carbelite stock. After I got it back, the barrel had really been put on a diet and the entire rifle, including bases, weighed 7lbs 2 oz. As I said in the opening post, rings and scope bring it to right about 8lbs. M1909s aren't known for being particularly light to begin with, but I'm pretty pleased the way this one turned out.
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Yeah, but he's now shooting 150-grain Ballistic Tips, so.... Yeah...but I'm shooting them in a .275 Rigby...made for lighter bullets and Red Deer.... Ingwe did that?! Me thinks someone has some explaining to do! He did 😂 Yeah, but that was back in the day when NBTs were thin jacketed and explosive. Besides, I say again, that was a 7x57.. Mine is a .275 Rigby Tamato or Tomato.
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