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#378519 09/22/14 06:41 PM
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For those who get all puffed up from their 7 X 57s, I commend "The Bell Project" by Peter Ryan and Roger Pinckney in the current Gray's Sporting Journal.

They mention the BRNO Model 21 "among the most sought after in the world" which I have used on big and small for nearly 65 years.

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i have a 7x57 what is puffed up? i like 7x57 quite a bit mc

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I think many 7 X 57 owners think they are true cognoscente---puffed up, hiding their familiarity with a great calibre while the world goes crazy over higher velocity and late-comer poseurs like the 7mm-08. I'm one of them.

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I like my 7x57 a lot. I don't think a cartridge is fully mature if it isn't at least 75 years old. Puffed up are the latest and greatest super magnums - all plastic and stainless steel with scopes the size of astronomical instruments. The 7x57 is simple elegance.

Jerry Liles

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I like my 7x57 a lot. I don't think a cartridge is fully mature if it isn't at least 75 years old. Puffed up are the latest and greatest super magnums - all plastic and stainless steel with scopes the size of astronomical instruments. The 7x57 is simple elegance.

Jerry Liles

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i have a simple 7x57 built on a steyr action but i do like 257 270,3006,7x06 8x57 but if i were going on a epic hunt in bad weather and have to make really long difficult shots i wouldn't hesitate to use a rifle with plastic and stainless and a round with longer legs.

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This is a photo of my favorite 7x57 Lightweight Sporter built by Charles Black, it is now topped by a 3-9x33 Leupold Compact.




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Mauser with H M Pope barrel in 7 x 57, stock by Seymour Griffin. 1924 date as I recall.


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mc, you must be thinking heavy bullets when you mention lacking longer legs. There are no flies on the 7mm out to 300, a common shooting distance. O'Connor considered it a perfect mountain rifle. It's Queen Elizabeth's go-to for stags on her Scottish highlands. Handloaded: from moose to mice. I wouldn't think twice of using it on any undisturbed bear.

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Of course all the good guys have a 7 x 57 and what better than a stock standard Mauser from the twenties or thirties.
Though I did put a Tubb firing pin and a Canjar trigger on it.
The photo shows it with the new/old B Nickel 3 to 10 that I put on it a few years ago and the target when I sighted it in. (well one does tend to keep those targets when it all goes right doesn't one)
You can see the safety just clears the scope which is why I used this scope after the previous vintage German scope on it got water logged when I was away on a ten day hunt and is another reason why you should have iron sights on a hunting rifle.
Had this rifle for around forty years now and although I have sold other rifles and of course regretted selling them after the deed was done this one will be an estate sale.
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