7x75

[Leec6.5]

Well finally she is home, the calibre of my dreams!

Originally i bought my 270win to re-barrel 7x57 but the bastard thing being a Ruger M77 refuses to die!

The rifle of choice is another Ruger M77 MK2 LA re-barreled 7x57 by who i have no idea, but i have just had the rifle cerakoted and had custom hand load development done, and she shoots just bloody lovely with 120gn barnes TTSX over N140 at 100yds off sticks.

Now of a lovely summer of Roe buck stalking before the winter madness.

 

[HandB]

Congrats - I have a 1955 BSA in 7x57 and it is a great mild recoiling but hard hitting and accurate cartridge.

 

[sh1kar]

Rigby knew what they were doing
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[Pine Marten]

I'm disappointed, I thought this thread was going to be about the 7x75R Super Express vom Hofe.

 

[Heym SR20]

Mauser got it right first time in the early 1890’s with the 7x57 and 6.5x55 with mild recoil, ballistically efficient and hard hitting bullets. And they both are more than a decade older than the 30-06, and it’s contemporaries such as the 303 are pretty much obsolete.

Loaded to their original loadings they were perfectly capable of taking man sized targets at 1000 yards with a well trained marksman and will take pretty much any animal that walks.

you can question whether all the time and effort in developing all the later cartridges was worth it.

 

[JohnSmith]

I just bought a K95 in 7x57R! Looking forward to seeing what this caliber is all about.

 

[NP435]

Mauser got it right first time in the early 1890’s with the 7x57 and 6.5x55 with mild recoil, ballistically efficient and hard hitting bullets. And they both are more than a decade older than the 30-06, and it’s contemporaries such as the 303 are pretty much obsolete.

Loaded to their original loadings they were perfectly capable of taking man sized targets at 1000 yards with a well trained marksman and will take pretty much any animal that walks.

you can question whether all the time and effort in developing all the later cartridges was worth it.

Well said sir.

 

[Leec6.5]

I'm disappointed, I thought this thread was going to be about the 7x75R Super Express vom Hofe.

There is a lovely 7x57R in Germany with my name on it!

 

[Dunwaters]

Rigby knew what they were doing
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Rigby???

 

[sh1kar]

Rigby???

Adopting a perfect chambering and action and giving it a new name
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[devon deer stalker]

I wish you and @big ears would stop banging on about the 7x57 and 6.5x55!
I might, just might sell the .308 and get one
Cheers
Richard

 

[sh1kar]

I wish you and @big ears would stop banging on about the 7x57 and 6.5x55!
I might, just might sell the .308 and get one
Cheers
Richard

First two chambering I bought. Both seen service in a number of countries and not let me down
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[Cranborne]

If ever a calibre deserves to be more popular for UK stalking, it's the 7x57.

 

[Heym SR20]

The Rigby 275 was the result of Rigby forming an alliance with Mauser who sent across barreled actions which were then stocked and finished in the British style.

Many other British Makers did the same with Mannlicher Schoeneur in their 6.5x54 or 256 as it was referred to.

This was done in the same manner as many British makers bow have shotguns built for them by Italian makers such as Rizzini.

Rigby’s and the Mannlichers were expensive rifles and were the rifles of “Sportsmen”. They were much cheaper than double rifles, but significantly more than the Lee actioned rifles in 303. The vast majority of hunting rifles across the British Empire were 303’s of some description. The Lee Speed were purpose built sporting rifles with elegant styled stocks and being sold to officers and gentlemen. But there were plenty of pretty much close to standard issue military rifles also in circulation. The 7x57 was the better cartridge, but the 303 was the workhorse in UK, Africa, Canada, New Zealand etc

 

[SDC7x57]

Nice to read this thread! I suspect that some, at least, of the posters will be 'of an age'..... but it's still a superb calibre. I'm on my fourth 7x57 - a modern S&L this time, which I can load for, and get a quick(ish) round for non-lead bullets. Perfect for what I need, and I can teach kids to shoot with centrefire because it's so soft to shoot. I still have my beloved Dan'l Fraser with its 1903 butterknife action, which gets a run out when the weather's good....a bit like me, really.

 

[Stalker62]

The 7×57mm Mauser (designated as the 7 mm Mauser or 7×57mm by the SAAMI and 7 × 57 by the C.I.P.) is a first-generation smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is known as . 275 Rigby in the United Kingdom.

Whilst I have never owned (nor fired) a .275 Rigby - we are off to Africa in October.

I am 'half-gunning' with a mate and he is taking his .275.

Let's see how we get on with the little darling.

Jim Corbett seemed to manage OK with it...

 

[SDC7x57]

Not to mention a certain Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell....

 

[sh1kar]

You will no doubt recognise this

 

[Stalker62]

You will no doubt recognise this

Indeed I do.

 

[Heym SR20]

I must admit I am not sure why the 7x57 / 275 Rigby has always remained an exclusive rifle / calibre, and everybody keeps trying to reinvet the wheel.

Bullet weight - will shoot from a 123 gn, through 140, 156 to 173 gn bullets, and has always had a 1 in 8 or 8.5" twist rate that allows it to stabilise long bullets.

The original "high velocity 275" loading was a 140 gn bullet at 2800 fps. The military was a solid 173 gn at 2300 fps - a long, high BC bullet that enabled the Boers to pick off British soldiers at 1,000 yds with open sights, and Bell to shoot plenty of elephants much closer than that.

Some of the American loads are pretty anaemic, but European Norma and RWS has always been full throttle ammo. And given the case volume you can get good velocities out of most loads, but with mild recoil. And also pressures are lower, which tends to give a much kinder and less jabby recoil.

I am currently using the factory Fox ammo with 130 gn bullet. Zeroed 1" high at 100 its bang at 200 and everything I have shot with it has fallen over on the spot.

The 7x57 is truly a good all round cartridge - it just plain works.