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The Sako 7x57 Mannlicher now on Gunbroker
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Sako Collectors Club Discussion Forum
It's nice to see a fine Sako used as intended instead of shut away in a safe ("gun jail") just because it is scarce, and valuable in monetary terms. More power to you, Spaher!
icebear
Sako-addicted
Thanks.
misako50
Sako-addicted
Not my place to answer the question on the 7x57, however the program I use for my PC has a grammar feature that corrects most of my mistakes on both spelling and punctuation. On your main page most of us use Bing or Google and there is a search engine spot that all you have to do is type in a WAG at the word and it usually gets it right and has the meaning also.
GreyFox
Well-Known Member
Bucktote, The 7X57 is a VERY old cartridge (like most of us!!) German design, Paul Mauser, etc... It is the base case for 257 Roberts and 6mm Remington. Mr. John Rigby renamed it a 275.
Ballistically, it's a 7-08.
I bought a very used and abused barreled action that will be a winter project (after hunting season) Mauser action, Not a SAKO, that I will use to create a truck gun. Just what I need, another deer rifle!!!!
How's your season going? I keep meaning to call, always at the wrong time,
I took a 6 point management buck last weekend. Not using a SAKO wither, I used my other truck gun, Mossberg 350 Legend..
Ballistically, it's a 7-08.
I bought a very used and abused barreled action that will be a winter project (after hunting season) Mauser action, Not a SAKO, that I will use to create a truck gun. Just what I need, another deer rifle!!!!
How's your season going? I keep meaning to call, always at the wrong time,
I took a 6 point management buck last weekend. Not using a SAKO wither, I used my other truck gun, Mossberg 350 Legend..
The main difference ballistically in the 7x57 ("7mm Mauser") and the 7mm/08 is that the slightly smaller case of the 7mm-08 can achieve similar velocities due to being allowed higher pressures (in factory loads) than the 7x57, which is held to modest pressure under SAAMI standards due to there being plenty of rifles out there that are over a century and a quarter old chambered for the round.
Also, the 7mm-08 generally uses lighter bullets at higher velocities while the 7x57 typically uses heavier bullets at lower velocities. For many years the only American ammunition for the 7x57 used a 170 grain bullet at a real world velocity of probably around 2200 fps. That has changed somewhat, but American factory ammunition for the 7x57 is still held to a lower SAMMI max pressure. Handloaded in a Sako or other modern turnbolt, the 7x57 can be as flexible as you wish in terms of bullet weight and boosting pressures to higher, but still reasonable, levels.
It has always been a popular cartridge in Europe, both for hunting and for military rifles, and in South America it was chambered in lots of military rifles. The later European 7mm, the 7x64 Brenneke, is basically a necked-down .30-06, which is in turn almost identical to a .280 Remington. The 7x64's larger case (and higher SAMMI pressure standards) allows a bit higher velocities than the 7x57, but what one can do so can the other. (Don't believe me? Just watch Spaher's posts of the outstanding whitetails he takes with both calibers and at similar distances.)
Also, the 7mm-08 generally uses lighter bullets at higher velocities while the 7x57 typically uses heavier bullets at lower velocities. For many years the only American ammunition for the 7x57 used a 170 grain bullet at a real world velocity of probably around 2200 fps. That has changed somewhat, but American factory ammunition for the 7x57 is still held to a lower SAMMI max pressure. Handloaded in a Sako or other modern turnbolt, the 7x57 can be as flexible as you wish in terms of bullet weight and boosting pressures to higher, but still reasonable, levels.
It has always been a popular cartridge in Europe, both for hunting and for military rifles, and in South America it was chambered in lots of military rifles. The later European 7mm, the 7x64 Brenneke, is basically a necked-down .30-06, which is in turn almost identical to a .280 Remington. The 7x64's larger case (and higher SAMMI pressure standards) allows a bit higher velocities than the 7x57, but what one can do so can the other. (Don't believe me? Just watch Spaher's posts of the outstanding whitetails he takes with both calibers and at similar distances.)
icebear
Sako-addicted
The 7x57 is also the parent case for the 6.5x57, which can be phenomenally accurate in a good rifle. I once had a Sauer 200 in 6.5x57 that shot half-inch groups all day with factory ammo. That was a standard-grade hunting rifle. Performance is on par with the 6.5x55 Swedish. Both the 7x57 and the 6.5x57 also come in rimmed versions for doubles, drillings, combination guns, and single-shots.
