5.6x57 experience ?
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Do a web search. Here, when you can find it, it's $56 to $75/20 for commercial ammo at it's cheapest. It is not the rifle for the non-reloader unless you have a serious ammo budget.~Muir
scrumbag
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Always thought it looked interesting especially with a fast twist and the heavier bullets but I think maybe a barrel burner and struggles with not being roe legal in England and Wales... Think it might well complement a 257 Roberts, 7x57, 8x57 and 9.3x57 as a battery though...
Back in the late fifties, early 60's there was a man named Clark in the US who was necking down 7x57 to .224 for 80 grain bullets using a 1-8" twist. He had lots of documentation of its effectiveness as a game killer but he was scoffed at and considered an eccentric. Seems he might have been ahead of his time.~Muir
Bavarianbrit
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I have a guy here who is dropping boar with one so it works for him.
This sounds a lot like the 224 Texas Trophy Hunter...AKA 22-6mm
There isn't much new out there. I had a customer come into my shop with a grand idea: He wanted to neck up a 284 Winchester to 30 caliber and have a short round with ballistics lying close to a 30-06. The "30-284". I reached into my reloading room and tossed him a 7.5x55 Swiss case I'd made from necking up 284 and told him he was only about 100 years late.
~Muir
scrumbag
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Nice battery!
I have a lovely Stutzen in 5,6x57 in our storage for a friend that you also know, I think ammo costs are the reason why it is hardly used on sika.
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straightpull6547
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I have a piece of the rws brass that a foreign client left for me, its very thick in the neck.
Glen of Imaal
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It's a great calibre but ammo is pricey. Then again the price of the RWS 74 grain means the barrel will last a while. To me it would seem an ideal calibre for Roe or Muntjac, as it is a .22 centrefire specifically designed for larger game, rather than a varmint round. It works on Sika too...
Bavarianbrit
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Hi Muir,There isn't much new out there. I had a customer come into my shop with a grand idea: He wanted to neck up a 284 Winchester to 30 caliber and have a short round with ballistics lying close to a 30-06. The "30-284". I reached into my reloading room and tossed him a 7.5x55 Swiss case I'd made from necking up 284 and told him he was only about 100 years late.
Would that then mean that the 7.5x55 case will also neck down to .284 Win? .284s are hard to get here in Germany and I have buckets of once fired 7.5x55 brass
There isn't much new out there. I had a customer come into my shop with a grand idea: He wanted to neck up a 284 Winchester to 30 caliber and have a short round with ballistics lying close to a 30-06. The "30-284". I reached into my reloading room and tossed him a 7.5x55 Swiss case I'd made from necking up 284 and told him he was only about 100 years late.
Ha ha,...how true, sounds like the guy who wanted neck the 35 Whelen to 30 cal......thought it would make a good fast non-magnum 30..
..I suggested he neck it to 25 cal.....
enfieldspares
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Muir, isn't this the .228 Savage re-invented, or somesuch this 5.6x57?
The reason for the thick neck brass is so a .22LR or .22 mag chamber converter can be used as they are popular on the continent for presumably practice and small game. I am sure the 57 uses standard size, heavier .22 CF bullets but the only factory ammo is the RWS 74gr KS design as G of I has noted.
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