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Yes Mathman.14" twist. Perfect for 87 gr Speer's , old Barnes 75gr X bullets and 90gr Sierra's.

It seems all my quarter bores have been Rugers. Not by design, it just worked out that way.

Had a mid-70's Ruger #1B .25-06, it would turn jackrabbits in a snowy field into real Jackson Pollack artwork. Sold at a gunshow for some other long forgotten plaything.

Got a heavy barreled 77V .25-06 in the early 80's, it wouldn't shoot worth a damn, at least not up to my exacting standards. Sold it to a guy in upstate NY where 2" groups were plenty enough for him to shoot deer.

Got a left handed stainless 77 Hawkeye .25-06 with the unnecessarily heavy magnum contour barrel, but it was a good shooter. Sold it locally.


Finally broke the .25-06 streak with this #1A in .250 Savage, which is a very well behaved little number that I feel is much underappreciated by the unwashed these days. Still here and likely will be for my remaining lifetime.

257 Roberts...

Ruger No.1B and 1A 257 Roberts

Ruger Hawkeye UL, 257 Roberts long action.

Savage AXIS 24", long action 257 Roberts.


Rem 700 SPS 26", 257 Weatherby Mag.

Hard to say as some are "farmed out" to succeeding family generations, but to my knowledge: (2) M700s in 250 Sav, (1) M7 in 250 Sav (1) Mauser 95 in 250 Sav & (1) M700 in 250 Sav AI. In the pase, I've let others talk me out of (1) Sav M1920 in 250 Sav, (1) M700 in 250 Sav & another M700 in 250 Sav AI. So yeah, I think you could say I'm a quarter-bore fan.

With a few minor dimensional changes, that would basically be a .250 AI, which people have built for decades.

That I remember, I've had a .257 Roberts, a couple of .257 Weatherbys and a couple of .25-06s. For my favored hunting (on foot and under 400 yards in open country), they work really well. Flat trajectory and pretty much point and click to 400 or so with the right zero. Of the three, I like the .25-06, though the Weatherby can be impressive.

I had a Kimber Montana .25-06 that was the only rifle I hunted with for a year or two. I did a lot of hunting during that time and killed a dozen or more animals ranging in size from coyotes to elk with the rifle. The Kimber was about perfect and had the whole package of balance, accuracy, light recoil and reliability. I had a long string of one shot kills with that rifle, including a few running shots. My streak was broken when I missed a coyote with it 6-8 times at about 75 yards. Though, to my credit the coyote was at the base of a mesa I was sitting on and the wind was hitting the mesa and turning straight up so hard it would blow you over if you got close to the edge. With the wind, the gun was shooting about 6 feet high at that range.

Despite the one coyote episode, that Kimber .25-06 is still one of my favorite rifles I have ever owned. Wish I still had it.

I just remembered a Ruger No. 1 .257 Weatherby I once had. The rifle was fairly accurate and was a limited run with 28" barrels, which on the short No. 1 action wasn't much longer than a 24" bolt action. I never hunted with it, but that rifle would shoot Weatherby factory loaded 100-grain bullets at 3900 fps. I didn't believe my chronograph so got my Oehler out and confirmed the results on my next range trip. It would do that with factory TSXs and one other load, 100-grain Hornadys I believe.

Ruger no 1 in 25/06 with a canjar single set trigger and hicks accurizer 24 power Leopold. It's one of the 1st guns I bought and will be the last one I would ever let go.

I’ve got a Bob in a Ruger Hawkeye. I absolutely love it, as does everyone that shoots it.

Any of you have a rifle chambered for the .297-250? H&H cartridge of bottleneck design using a .250” diameter bullet. Parent case was the .297-230 Morris.

I've got one. I used to have a really good friend down at the farm. O.T. ran the mower shop over on the next ridge, and I was always bringing him stuff to work on. O.T. had grown up here and hunted all over this end of the county. His big thing was grouse, but he hunted turkeys and deer as well. O.T. always bragged about his deer rifle, a custom Mauser 25-06. I even heard about it from his friends. It was sort of a small legend.

O.T. went blind in his 80s. It was a sudden thing. One night he was watching TV and it all went dark. Shortly after that I came to visit, and he was fretting on having enough money to stay in his house. I offered to buy his rifle. O.T. cried when he went to the safe and got it out. He died over the next winter.



I have to say that up until now, I haven't had that great of an experience with the rifle. I tried to shoot 117 Hornadys, and they grouped okay. It just didn't have such a great effect on the deer. I put it aside and brought it back out this year with 100 grain Speers. Yesterday, I shot a great group with it, and it's coming back out with me this November.

The stock has all sorts of little scratches and indentations from O.T. holding it against fenceposts for a solid rest.

Currently:

2-M700 BDL 25-06
Custom M700 25-06 AI
Custom M700 25-284

Had:
M700 classic 25-06
Kimber Montana 25-06
Kimber select 257 R
Custom M70 257 AI

I’m a big fan.

3 currently......

700 BDL in .25-06 ... First centerfire rifle I bought with my own money. First cartridge I learned to reload for.

700 .25-06 that belonged to my FiL. Technically belongs to my wife since he passed.

Barrett Fieldcraft ..25-06

Have dies for a .25 Super and .257 Roberts.... Just no gun, yet....... missed out on a Kimber .257 Roberts

Burt2506

My 257 Robert’s looks like yours. 03a3 action and a Herters stock, oh and a Douglas barrel.


I also have 2 99’s in 250.

1 - 250 Savage
1 - 257 Creedmoor Brux barrel
9 - 257 Roberts 2 have Brux barrels
2 - 25-06
5 - 257 Weatherby mags. 3 have Brux barrels 1 a Lilja barrel

> i only own 1 of these 25 caliber rifles in a Remington its a 30 Express Brux barrel 257 Roberts , i am not much of a Remington fan , many are Ruger #1`s . Pete53

I love quarter bores.
My first was a Remington 722 in a 257 Roberts. It shot great but was heavy and had too much drop in the stock. I traded it long ago.
I also had an 1894 Marlin 25-20 that I traded for something. I wish I would have kept it.
I have a NULA 250 AI and a Kimber 257 Roberts. Both are incredibly light, very accurate, and are a pleasure to shoot. On varmints and deer sized game they bunch above their weight class.

A marlin lever matic would be neat for the collection.

Ruger M77RL-MKII Ultralight in .257 Roberts
Ruger M77ST Tang Safety in .25-06 Remington

Started with the 250 savage then the 22-250,then the 25-06,257 Roberts,really liked a wildcat we did 25-39 and finally the 25-45 Sharps.

The sharps shoots like the 250 Savage does in an Ar-15.

They just plain work .

I am new to this 1/4 bore stuff. I eased into it with a Ruger M77 257 Roberts. The first range session shows promise.

Anybody consider the fact that the 243/6mm is as close to being a true “quarter bore” as the 257/25-06,etc…