Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Europe Anybody have a modern 7.5 x 55 Hunting rifle?

I have decided my next rifle will be a 7.5X55 using the GP11 version of the cartridge. Do any of you folks have, use, or know anything useful about this caliber and are there any affordable rifles chambered for it? Thanks for your kind responses.

Flower Child

Never seen any but the Swiss military rifles. They are usually very accurate. I'm sure the "story" behind why you picked this is interesting as it will do nothing a 308 won't with a lot less effort.

My K31 is probably the most accurate rifle I have ever fired. There is a company in Virginia that deals in collector military and classic sporting rifles. I noticed while surfing for sporter Mausers several weeks ago, they had in their Mauser listing a 7.5 x 55 sporter on a 98 action. Nice rifle!

Check it out!

http://www.collectiblefirearms.com/RiflesMauser.html

Scroll down to the rifle. It's down the list a bit! They have many nice sporter Mausers on their site!

Bob

Bob

link is NG

Hmmmmm? Works for me. Try this & see if it works;


http://www.collectiblefirearms.com/index.html

Steyr made a match rifle in 7.5x55. You might look around, when Sig imported their Swiss-made 970 they may have offered it in 7.5x55. This was, as I recall, a switch-barrel rifle so if you were really driven you could get a 970 in a similar sized caliber and then buy a 7.5x55 barrel (if they make it) from Switzerland.

I put a Lothar Walther 7.5x55 Swiss Ord. barrel on a 'tween the wars FN built 24/30 and it is a good shooter. 7.5x55 feeds through the FN's magazine without any troube, the FN was built for Venezualia as a 7x57.

Jeff

http://www.blaser.de/R8-calibers-barrel-lengths.1565.0.html?&L=1

http://www.blaser.de/Calibers-Standard-Imperial.129.0.html?&L=1

I suspect stumbling upon one in the US will not be so easy.

Folks,
Well it just came down to what rifle I could find chambered for the 7.5x55 Swiss. I had to settle for a very heavy Swiss military K31, which sure isn't my idea of a hunting rifle. Would have preferred an Xbolt or Abolt or model 700 or 70.
Just about anything, but here in America we don't have anybody chambering for many of the European calibers and we are told that our cartridges duplicate the European ones which I don't believe at all.
However, the K31 is at least an accurate rifle by all reports, so maybe things will turn out okay for hunting next fall as long as I don't have to lug it around a lot and can keep my shots under 200 meters for our deer. I will let you know how things turn out and thanks for the help.

Flower Child

@all

Well I'm using the cartridge 7,5x55 Schmidt&Rubin in a K31 Hunting version as well as with the R93

http://www.collani.ch/Karabiner-K-31-Jagd-Main-e.htm

With the modern rifles I'm using leadfree copper bullets called "Gian-Marchet".

Here the translation of their webpage

http://translate.google.ch/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gian-marchet.ch%2FGM-Geschosse-Laborierung-GM-7555-d.htm&sl=de&tl=en&swap=1

Please copy the URL into a new browser window.

Good shooting and good hunting
Collani

collani, I was a little surprised to see such a high comb on that sporter. Very interesting mix of California Monte Carlo and German styling. Thanks for sharing.

Google Altius guns in West Yellowstone. Marc has a custom K31 that looks pretty neat on his web site for sale.