7 x 57 users out there.

[1st Pattern Paul]

Very interesting. I was looking for something different a couple of months back and decided on a 7 x 57 as a trophy gun. I usually use a Blaser for my day to day shooting but wanted something different for when I treated myself to a "special stalk or trophy". I found and bought a Ruger No1 in 7 x 57, love it to bits. Attatched is a pic of it's first outing from last week, a highland goat for the wall. Will do a write up as and when I get time.View attachment 19972

 

[9.3x64]

Hi, I have owned a Left handed Heym SN20 for nearly 20 years in 7x57. Wonderful rifle and calibre. Great for any deer. Build quality on the Heym is wonderful and probally the best bluing I have ever seen on a production rifle. Mine will comfortably shoot factory Norma 156 grain Oryx under the inch. You will never regret buying a Heym but you will regret seling one.

 

[jb7x57]

Used a 7x57 for years Blaser do a 7x57 barrel, Mine is a sako trgs with a fluted cut border barrel, rws do a 123 grain load shoots sub 1 inch in my gun,

 

[bullet chucker]

Hi, I have a 7x57 left hand SR20 Heym for sale with Apel swing off mounts and 30mm and 25mm rings fitted to a Swarovski 4-12x50 Innova scope. Threaded and fitted with a T8 moderator,proof marked.There is also plenty of ammo available as well. Anyone interested please PM me.

Heym rifles are beautifully built. Seem to be hewn from a solid block of steel and walnut. No tinniness at all and a class above many other production rifles in my view. They are hand built and it shows. I prefer the older SR20 to the SR21 as it has a fixed magazine as opposed to the drop mag of the later. If you find a good one snap it up - they don't come up very often - they are definately keepers in my view.

 

[MountainStalker2]

The 7/08 is the "new" 7x57 , more easily loaded for peak performance, rifles and ammo more widely available. Very hard to find a new 7x57 or ammo and brass for one here also. resale on them is not good if you do spend big $.

 

[Wingers243]

Have a look in Holts auction. There are half a dozen in every sale.

 

[schultz and larsen]

I have singleshot Merkel K1 in 7x57R....very nice weapon and cartridge. One custom rifle(manlicher=stutzen), rimles 7x57, build on FN comercial actinon is under building....I just love 7mm rounds...Have 7x64, 7x65R too....lovely..

 

[scrumbag]

I have singleshot Merkel K1 in 7x57R....very nice weapon and cartridge. One custom rifle(manlicher=stutzen), rimles 7x57, build on FN comercial actinon is under building....I just love 7mm rounds...Have 7x64, 7x65R too....lovely..

Sounds quite a collection! I have a 7x64 on order and very excited. Think a 7x65r drilling would complement it very nicely!

ATB,

Scrummy

 

[Code4]

I love my custom Mauser '98 in 7x57. I am surprised a supply of rifles and ammo is a problem for you in the EU. Add Zastava and Voere to the manufacturers of rifles in 7x57.

I have taken an Imperial Red Stag in NZ and countless feral camels in our outback with my rifle and now use exclusively the 173 H-Mantle from RWS as it is the most accurate in my rifle. The tip sheers off instantly on impact leaving a cylinder, approx 150 grains weight to penetrate.

 

[ejg]

Get a 7-08, 7x57 is great but.... 7-08 is the better cartridge .
edi

 

[Penyard]

Get a 7-08, 7x57 is great but.... 7-08 is the better cartridge .
edi

+1 for 7mm-08. Ballistic twin, more selection of ammo and rifles. Nothing against 7x57 and know many satisfied users but get same performance out of my 7-08

 

[The deer man]

Ruger No.1 International is still produced in 7x57. A friend has one, very nice rifle and accurate. My rifle of choice is the virtually identical 7mm-08, just an updated more efficient 7mm package available from most rifle makers. Very smooth to shoot and ammo now easy to get.

 

[Kalahari]

Some 7 x 57s in both Holt's London and Norwich sealed bid auctions. Some of them really reasonably priced/estimated.

David.

 

[Tikka 260]

+1 for 7mm-08. Ballistic twin, more selection of ammo and rifles. Nothing against 7x57 and know many satisfied users but get same performance out of my 7-08

Have and had both...... I must be ol fashioned but the 7x57 is my preference. Bang, Gentle shove and then Flop at the other end. The 7 x 57 appears to be more forgiving of a wide range of bullet weights, but heck....... no arguments, they both work just fine.

 

[tahoe2]

On your side of the pond, do they still make the 275 Rigby (7x57) ? I have two 7x57 Spanish mausers and love em, but I handload them to lower pressures (44,000cup),
like a 30-30, cause my guns are older (1931,1932). They will kill anything I will ever hunt, Antelope, Deer, Black Bear, & Elk.

 

[Drag1]

I used a cz in 7x57 for a few years caliber did everything i ever wanted and you can see things drop in the scope when i up graded to my Blaser 10 years ago it was the first barrel i chose
its a super round have shot it over here and in Africa on plains game and none of the animals minded that its not the flattest round in the world even the springbok i shot at 347yds
If you get one you won't regret it its been around for a long time !!!

 

[shbangsteve]

Get a 7-08, 7x57 is great but.... 7-08 is the better cartridge .
edi

Please explain ? if you hand load the 7x57, it holds more powder and is far better than the 7-08 with heavy bullets. How could it possibly be better ?

 

[tahoe2]

7-08? it's modern of course ! LOL Sorry couldn't help myself. new rounds are just doing the same thing as older ones, albeit in newer platforms...just sayin !

 

[Southern]

I only have a 7x57R in an O/U combination gun, for which I traded last year.
I love it. I am still trying to find and develop the best loads.

In a bolt action, it is the same as the 7mm-08, the ideal cartridge for game up to 300 lbs. Accept it for what it is. Don't try to overload it. You have a .30-06 for heavy work.

120-gr Ballistic Tip Nosler at 3,000 fps is like a .270 with less recoil.
140-gr is ideal for it.

 

[deerwarden]

I have a BSA hunter in 7x57, it has taken plains game up to a 65" Kudu with one shot and black wildebeest as well, no issues at all, as said bang and watch the flop. Always use 140gn partition for everything, have used 160's, but the 140gn have been faultless to date. A week on hinds, sika and red in Scotland produced 42 hinds and a roe, all dropped to the shot except the roe, less body mass maybe for the bullet to expand, but she only went 10 yards. The BSA will easily shoot into an inch all day at 100 yards, I will never sell my BSA rifle as it is a classic rifle and round, and a joy to shoot. deerwarden