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I recently bought three rifles from an individual. 300 pieces of 7 mm RM brass came with and also 200 pieces of 6.5x55. I got around to running the 6.5 through the resizer today, when I discovered a few 257 Roberts in the batch.
One of those 257 cases was head stamped "Peters 7 mm". That is it. No designation of which 7 mm it was. I assume that would be because at the time of manufacture, there was only ONE 7mm available in the US, and possibly abroad.
Anyway, I thought it an interesting tidbit to stumble across.
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I recently bought three rifles from an individual. 300 pieces of 7 mm RM brass came with and also 200 pieces of 6.5x55. I got around to running the 6.5 through the resizer today, when I discovered a few 257 Roberts in the batch.
One of those 257 cases was head stamped "Peters 7 mm". That is it. No designation of which 7 mm it was. I assume that would be because at the time of manufacture, there was only ONE 7mm available in the US, and possibly abroad.
Anyway, I thought it an interesting tidbit to stumble across. Back when the 7x57 Mauser was about the only 7MM cartridge around, Remington and I now see Peters also also stamped their brass 7MM and nothing else except brand name because the 7mm Mauser was the only game in town. When I bought my M70 Featherweight at a gun show the guy selling threw in a bunch if fired brass which included a rather plain bright red box with Remington on the side, Remington 7mm Mauser on the end flaps and twenty brand new unprimed cases stamped REM 7MM. I keep it separate but have no idea of collector value. More like a reminder of when life was a hell of a lot simpler. If I were to guess a date, probably about the early to late forties. Cool conversation piece. PJ
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Back when the 7x57 Mauser was about the only 7MM cartridge around, Remington and I now see Peters also also stamped their brass 7MM and nothing else except brand name because the 7mm Mauser was the only game in town. When I bought my M70 Featherweight at a gun show the guy selling threw in a bunch if fired brass which included a rather plain bright red box with Remington on the side, Remington 7mm Mauser on the end flaps and twenty brand new unprimed cases stamped REM 7MM. I keep it separate but have no idea of collector value. More like a reminder of when life was a hell of a lot simpler. If I were to guess a date, probably about the early to late forties. Cool conversation piece.
PJ Cool!!!
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I will make an educated guess of mid to late 1930's. I don't know if any U.S. manufactured rifles were chambered in 7x57 Mauser prior to that. Win 70's were chambered in 7x57 Mauser and were caliber stamped 7MM.
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