What Have You Killed with the 7x57

[mauser98]

Ill add my share of limited expirence with the 7x57. Mine was in a Ruger No.1 single shot (no longer have it, sold it to fund other rifles). 175gr Hornady Interlocks at 2600 fps. Recently bought a Brazilian Mauser 1935 long rifle to replace it.

 

[Frederik]

Still waiting for my license on my new CZ550 7x57 and then I will have to play catch up!!

 

[MS 9x56]

I hit an estate sale jackpot today I picked up 150 Hornady 154 grain roundnose soft points and 100 pieces of Hornady 175 grain round nose soft points.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

I hit an estate sale jackpot today I picked up 150 Hornady 154 grain roundnose soft points and 100 pieces of Hornady 175 grain round nose soft points.

Those 175 gr Hornaday RN bullets are my favorite For the 7X57.
One left a 2” exit hole in a nice Whitetail deer & a 2” hole through her heart, she went 30 yds. I was hunting from a blind & had ranged her at 130yds.

 

[MS 9x56]

Those 175 gr Hornaday RN bullets are my favorite For the 7X57.
One left a 2” exit hole in a nice Whitetail deer & a 2” hole through her heart, she went 30 yds. I was hunting from a blind & had ranged her at 130yds.

Do you load your own or shoot commercial ammo? If commercial what brands? I only ask because I have several boxes of Remington 175 grain corelocs.

 

[spike.t]

As per posts header...nothing yet but working on it.....as @Kevin Peacocke said you have to name your rifle after the first animal it takes....am trying to get it right....

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Do you load your own or shoot commercial ammo? If commercial what brands? I only ask because I have several boxes of Remington 175 grain corelocs.

I load my own.
The Rem. Corelocs are a fantastic bullet & at 7x57 velocities perform as well as most premium bullets.

 

[MS 9x56]

I intend to test them on deer and hogs this fall.

 

[Jon Glajchen]

Those 175 gr Hornaday RN bullets are my favorite For the 7X57.
One left a 2” exit hole in a nice Whitetail deer & a 2” hole through her heart, she went 30 yds. I was hunting from a blind & had ranged her at 130yds.

I use them loaded to about 2550 fps for bushveld shooting in my FN 7X57. I have shot game up to Kudu,Blue Wildebeest and Waterbuck with them and have found them to be good performers. I think that at that speed they have good penetration and they expand quite well. I recovered this one from a frontal shot on a large Waterbuck bull. The bull dropped immediately to the shot.
I didn’t weigh it but it looks like it retained much of its weight.

 

[F. Vaccaro]

I hunt our Elk with them, put one in the right spot & sharpen your knife

 

[spike.t]

As per posts header...nothing yet but working on it.....as @Kevin Peacocke said you have to name your rifle after the first animal it takes....am trying to get it right....

Well as I just put on Kevin's new thread about gun names and titles....i think I got it right today....not big.. but a really old sable bull ..used norma 156 grn Oryx...very impressed...smashed shoulder..through heart and was found on other side in the meat after passing through the ribs...and feels like retained most of its weight ...tried loading bullet photos but on go slow..so will try other time

 

[F. Vaccaro]

Very nice!

 

[gcbailey]

I was quite impressed with the performance on my .275 Rigby. They are well pretty much one shot kills, other than the insurance shot on the gemsbok and crocodile. Not too shabby for a 1927 rifle!

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Well as I just put on Kevin's new thread about gun names and titles....i think I got it right today....not big.. but a really old sable bull ..used norma 156 grn Oryx...very impressed...smashed shoulder..through heart and was found on other side in the meat after passing through the ribs...and feels like retained most of its weight ...tried loading bullet photos but on go slow..so will try other time

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Nice one! Here’s my best one. But I didn’t own my 7x57mm when I took him. I used my white hunter’s BRNO ZKK600 in .30-06 Springfield and a 220Gr Remington Core Lokt.

 

[spike.t]

Well as I just put on Kevin's new thread about gun names and titles....i think I got it right today....not big.. but a really old sable bull ..used norma 156 grn Oryx...very impressed...smashed shoulder..through heart and was found on other side in the meat after passing through the ribs...and feels like retained most of its weight ...tried loading bullet photos but on go slow..so will try other time

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Bullet photos

 

[yumastepside]

.....nothing as exotic as some of our members. I started with a BRNO u/o 7x57R-12G combination that I bought for my father ( he would sit with it on the bank of the river while my mother was fishing in the far north with buffalo behind him and crocs in the water ... just in case ) which he shot camels, donkeys and quite a few goats with. I used it for goats and pigs and then I converted a No.1 Lee Enfield to the 7x57R for goats, pigs and a couple of fallow...all with some very old S&B 140gr softpoints......my rough and ready smellie !

Roger

 

[Gustav Snyman]

Still waiting for my competency to come through to apply for the licence of my CZ550 7x57. I think once all those formalities are sorted there is a Bushbuck or Vaalie waiting for it!!

 

[spike.t]

.....nothing as exotic as some of our members. I started with a BRNO u/o 7x57R-12G combination that I bought for my father ( he would sit with it on the bank of the river while my mother was fishing in the far north with buffalo behind him and crocs in the water ... just in case ) which he shot camels, donkeys and quite a few goats with. I used it for goats and pigs and then I converted a No.1 Lee Enfield to the 7x57R for goats, pigs and a couple of fallow...all with some very old S&B 140gr softpoints......my rough and ready smellie !

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Roger

Neat rifle

 

[Pole Pole]

While hunting in Wyoming my friend shot a moose with his 7X57 using 140 grain Sierra SP at an estimated 125 yards . Shot it three times; never flinched. We looked at each other with that “What the Heck” look. Didn’t know to what to do, reload and keep shooting or take the bolt out too see if the bullets were still in the barrel. Hahaha. Moose dropped dead in its tracks.

 

[mauser98]

Well after some consideration, i decided to take the plunge and bought the real deal. A mauser 98 expert w/ Grade 5 walnut in 7x57.