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I started with a 50 round bag of WW 25-06 brass I got off Randy.
All I really did to it was clean up and chamfer the case mouths.
Between zeroing up scopes and playing around at 500 yards I worked my way through all 50.
Then they went into the pins for cleaning and got an anneal job.
All ready to drop 54.5 of Reloader 23 into.

For some reason I didnt get a barrel stub on this one so I set the bullet seating depth with the Hornady lock and load tool.
The 115 Nosler ballistic tips are .010 off the lands.
After I got the S&B zeroed.
I did my two shot-er stuff to 300 yards.
At this point the fancy stuff was put away ... BR adapter was removed studs put back in....
Shot these off my regular set up for a deer rifle.

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Whens the last time you shot more than two rounds at a deer?
Might be a touch high but thats where I left it.
The reticle is heavy. I mean like really heavy.
But I get a pie shape on the big bull at 300.
Fit the target to the reticle you have .. Works like a charm.

dave

Nice rig looks like a shooter!

Thanks efw..
I ended up getting a buck the first Sunday of deer season.
The Pa. Game commission had decided to add Sunday hunting.
A one day thing ...first time in Pa. at least as far back as i can remember..
I had to wait untill the second Saturday before I could doe hunt.
First Saturday morning at 930.
It all happened pretty quick.

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Both of these were about 170 yards.
Both shoulder shots.
I remember taking a somewhat low hold.
Both did about a 35 yard lunge stumble death run.
My buddie DonKnows watched from 500 yards away....had more fun than I did..
No snow but both had exits.Both pumped blood all over, so following them was easy.
Inside the clock works were pretty messed up.
I have read guys saying these bullets dont exit.But here they did.
Looking at the internal damage these 115g bullets caused.
Its hard to imagine anything going very far when hit like these two were.
The tenderloins on the little one were excellent..

dave

trigger issues resolved.
Its back in the barn.

Scary slick action.
Lubed with TSI-301..
dave

Just a touch over 2 lb..


dave

Painted in black Duracoat.
The inside of the action and the bolt have the lubricating Duracoat
With the TSI-301 its one of the slickest M700 I have.
And I have a bunch of them..

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I may leave it.
And I might just put a alittle bigger scope on it.
Thinking the 7x50 fixed Schmidt & Bender with the A4.

dave

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I wanna see the 7x50.... jump in! Let me know how the water is.

. Very nice.

"By Burn's definition (one of them), the 7X57 is obsolete too, because I haven't been able to find factory ammo for mine."

I usually can find Federal 7x57 at my local big box store and Privi on line. Personally, I don't shoot factory ammo in my 7x57s, much preferring my much hotter handloads. Lucked out a few years ago at a gun show where a vendor was selling bulk brass and bullets literally by weight. I bought every single round of Winchester and Remington 7x57 brass he had on hand. I'll never live long enough to use it all up. I've match prepped most of it by resizing it to round off the necks trimming to the trim to length uniforming primer pockets ad clearing the flash hole. Still have a couple hundred or so to do. Some were primed before doing the prepping so may do load work up. I decided back in 2019 that I was going retro and working with that oh so obsolete 7x57 cartridge. between a bad car wreck and various medical problems I haven't been able to do much. I'll be trying for deer and elk tags this year and maybe an out of state elk hunt as well It's all in the luck of the draw.
PJ

Huh?