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[geoffrey]

Hi ade8mm, at the moment i am loading 196gn hornady over 42gn of n140 with a fedral 210 primer, i am getting 1.5 inch groups at 100yds with each barrel and three inches between groups, i would like to try a lighter bullet but not easy to come by, cheers Geoff

 

[Ade8mm]

Hi Geoffrey

Have you tried to get any Sierra bullets?

Ade

 

[kimh]

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h leve hofbuck senmcher berlin hammer

 

[Greener Jim]

That's nice. What is it chambered in?

 

[kimh]

it came to me in 20G but it is away at the moment being reworked back to 9x57 Mauser

 

[Ade8mm]

Kimh

Nice piece. Any idea how old it is?

 

[kimh]

it's been in a few experts hands but nothing conclusive, I was told it was a capture rifle from the first world war where the villagers were told to lay their rifles out in the street only for a gun carriage to be pulled over them, this one obviously made it out of Germany some how
in a 20g it was great but I wanted a double rifle so I went this way, finding the right smith was the hard bit. I'll get there and can't wait for the Thames valley question of good reason...

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[mchughcb]

Very nice.

 

[8x57]

Top rifle a Unifrance Solitaire (Zoli Focus) in 8x57irs. Bottom rifle a Chapuis UGEX in 9.3x74r.

Top scope a Meopta 30mm 1.5-6x42 in Suhl quick release mounts.
Bottom scope a Leupold European 1.25-4x20 in Zeigler claw mounts.

 

[8x57]

Hi ade8mm, at the moment i am loading 196gn hornady over 42gn of n140 with a fedral 210 primer, i am getting 1.5 inch groups at 100yds with each barrel and three inches between groups, i would like to try a lighter bullet but not easy to come by, cheers Geoff

Geoffrey I don't know if you have seen this very useful reloading data that ejg kindly posted previously some time ago. http://www.thestalkingdirectory.co....8x57-Anybody-shoot-it/page2?highlight=8x57jrs Look at the pages towards the end of the posting rather than the data referring to the rimmed round and the older .318" cartridges.

I managed to pick up a box of Hornady 170 grn bullets some time ago and they seemed to shoot quite well through my 8x57irs, well certainly well enough to put a large fallow doe on the ground with minimum meat damage.