What Have You Killed with the 7x57

[steve white]

My 7x57 is a sporter made in 1894. Ive only ever taken a single muledeer with it, but my grandfather took countless deer, elk, and pronghorn with it.

1894---pictures!

 

[PCC600]

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Yesterday in Sweden: Mauser 66, 7x57, full stock version, Swarovski 1,5 - 6x42. And the chief of all Dachshunds!View attachment 707591

A very proud looking little dog .

 

[roklok]

Took my Paul Jaeger custom 7×57 on its first trip since I owned it. Killed 4 blacktails on POW island. Worked splendidly, but the oil finished stock wasnt the best for hunting in a week if near constant rain.

 

[KoedoePoesPienk]

Did the rain damage the finish, or did the stock warp?
Couldn’t you just put a few new coats of oil on the stock?

 

[roklok]

The stock didnt warp, but it raised the grain and darkened the wood near its interface with steel parts due to gun oil leaching into the stock finish. I had to wipe all steel parts down daily with oily rag. I am currently in the process of renewing oil finish, carefully knocked down raised grain with 320 sandpaper, have TimberLuxe oil finish on order.

 

[steve white]

The stock didnt warp, but it raised the grain and darkened the wood near its interface with steel parts due to gun oil leaching into the stock finish. I had to wipe all steel parts down daily with oily rag. I am currently in the process of renewing oil finish, carefully knocked down raised grain with 320 sandpaper, have TimberLuxe oil finish on order.

If I lived where you hunt, I would possibly thin Acraglas liquid 50% with acetone and let it soak into the wood like water. Then when you finish over that it WILL be waterproof. And I would for sure do it in the inletting. They use this method sometimes in Alaska.

 

[Arac]

I used a Brno 21H with 162 gr Kegelspitz RWS factory ammo on a nice bull moose. Range was about 200 yards, broadside. He jumped at the first shot and moved forward about 10 yards. I hit him again and a fell over. Both shots were behind the shoulder and through both lungs. I recovered the bullets from under the hide.

Picture perfect performance from the bullet:

 

[KoedoePoesPienk]

I used a Brno 21H with 162 gr Kegelspitz RWS factory ammo on a nice bull moose. Range was about 200 yards, broadside. He jumped at the first shot and moved forward about 10 yards. I hit him again and a fell over. Both shots were behind the shoulder and through both lungs. I recovered the bullets from under the hide.

Picture perfect performance from the bullet:
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I think the Brno 21 was the best rifle Brno ever made!
We need pictures of your moose too!

 

[Arac]

I think the Brno 21 was the best rifle Brno ever made!
We need pictures of your moose too!

Yes, the Brno 21 and 22 are simply excellent. I had one in 7x57 and another in 8x57, and as I have often done in the past, sold them in a fit of stupidity. I don't have any pictures of them. I purchased the 7x57 from the original owner and kept the 2 boxes of ammo that came with the rifle.

I also don't have a good picture of the moose - it was pre-smartphone times. Here is a picture of where it fell and back at camp, packed up and ready to go. I had used the modified Suzuki Samurai (Toyota 19R engine swap) to get back up onto a plateau. I slept in it and it was my blind for the morning.

 

[Sika98k]

I was on a driven boar hunt last week in Czech. I shot this keiler with my Rigby.

 

[Ruraldoc]

Just found this old thread. I have used a couple of custom 98 mausers with light contour barrels in synthetic stocks for deer hunting with handloads using 139 grain hornady bullets as well as 140 ballistic tips.

Never lost a deer with this set up.

Have a CZ 550 classic in 7x57 that I want to take to Africa with a twin rifle in 9.3x62.

That pair seems about perfect for anything up to buffalo.

 

[Fatback]

I’ve shot a couple of whitetails this year with my new to me 7x57. It a LH Winchester M70. I was using 150 grain norma whitetail factory ammo to great effect.

 

[KoedoePoesPienk]

I was on a driven boar hunt last week in Czech. I shot this keiler with my Rigby. View attachment 732737View attachment 732738View attachment 732739

What bullet did you use 175gr?

 

[Sika98k]

What bullet did you use 175gr?

Yes, Nosler Partitions. Great medicine on any game within reason.

 

[Daryl S]

Mule Deer only, in Northern B.C. 175gr. Euro Blue Nose (large round lead nose). Bullet broke in 1/2
with the rear portion leaving a rectagonal shaped hole on exit out the off side shoulder, right beside the leg bone.