School me on the 7x57

two-dogs said:
lol, thx but no thx, someone lead me to believe and got my hopes up as high as hell that CZ just might have a rifle with a DM in 7x57. Know anything about that?
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If CZ made the 550 FS in a 7X57 DM, I would be all set... once I converted it back to a hinged floorplate.
 
hoytcanon said:
If CZ made the 550 FS in a 7X57 DM, I would be all set... once I converted it back to a hinged floorplate.
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That's only funny cuz it's true.
I once had a rifle with DM and I kept misplacing it only to find it after the season was over..... never again.
 
I have a nice old 1895 Ludwig Loewe action that was from an officers Orange Free State ( Boer War) 7x57 rifle. now don't get mad, the stock had long ago been replaced with a Swede Stock, and some feller started to cut the barrel almost threw below the stock line!!
My question is what twist rate do you fellows recommend for shooting 160 & 175 grainer's ?

Believe it or not I have never owned a 7x57, but will after I finish my 9.3x62 and my 22 Hornet! I think it will be a carbine?
Nice thread :)
Dale Z
 
The twist rate on the original rifles was 1-8 1/2", so I would use that or 1-9" would be close enough. My 7x57 was built with 1-10", and while it shoots 140's and 154's just fine, I can see the 175's fishtailing slightly through the target. If I were doing it again, I'd use 1-9.
 
Ardent said:
I have some unfortunate news. I've used the 7x57 a good deal, still do, and it is exactly the same cartridge as the,

.308 Winchester
.260 Remington
7mm-08
6.5x55
.303 Brit
.30-06
.280 Rem
.270 Winchester
.300 Savage
6.5 Creedmoor

…and on.

All can shoot bullets within about 10% of the weight of each other, within about 10% of the speed of each other, and no animal can tell the difference, and truthfully almost no hunter can either. We're simply spitting accelerated lumps of metal at speed, and those lumps are so similar it's even tighter than Ford / Chevy. :) Pick the one you feel nostalgia for or can find on your local shop's shelf, and off to the hunting fields. They are a whole bunch of options of the exact same thing, this said, I have a favourite too, and indeed it's the 7x57. Not many good reasons, but it has an illustrious history and well, I just like it. ;) In the end, suppose what good reasons do we need?
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Well, that absolutely astounding :sok2
 
zywina said:
I have a nice old 1895 Ludwig Loewe action that was from an officers Orange Free State ( Boer War) 7x57 rifle. now don't get mad, the stock had long ago been replaced with a Swede Stock, and some feller started to cut the barrel almost threw below the stock line!!
My question is what twist rate do you fellows recommend for shooting 160 & 175 grainer's ?

Believe it or not I have never owned a 7x57, but will after I finish my 9.3x62 and my 22 Hornet! I think it will be a carbine?
Nice thread :)
Dale Z
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I used 1-8 in my last build to shoot the Barnes 175gr, there is no downside going 1-8 instead of 1-9, but you could have a downside choosing the slower twist over the faster depending which projectiles you want to shoot. The faster the twist, the more versatility, the fast twists shoot light bullets just as well as the slower ones as well.
 
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