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Thread: 6,5x55 or 7x57
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05-08-2021, 22:35 #11
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06-08-2021, 07:52 #12
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
The market , that mysterious force called the market.
15 years ago you could find the odd new 7x57 in the gunshops. Ask for a 6.5 anything and you would have got a blank stare and then a "Oh ja...no the 6.5 Swede or 6.5x54...no no no they are obsolete...old clunkers"
Fast foreward back to today and the 6.5 Creed is here. This is now the best thing since cooked rice...can do anything. Oh,um the 6.5 Swede is ballistically the same , oh well lets bring that back too.
What does the gunshop say.....a 7x57...no no no they are obsolete old clunkers but i have the latest and greatest...the 6.5 Swede.
I have a 6.5 Swede , a 6.5 Creed , a 7x57 and had a 7mm08........so no favouritism here.
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06-08-2021, 08:54 #13
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
Treeman and TStone and Pre 64, that is exactly why I have hunted all my life everything that needs to be hunted with my 30-06. I have used anything from 130-220 gr bullets for different purposes. Never needed anything else. But now dad wants to spoil his girl (and himself in the meantime.)
A 6.5x55 is then what it would be. You all have made up my mind for me. Get what is available, load with decent bullets and shoot straight and all will be fine.
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06-08-2021, 09:24 #14
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
Either will do. My wife has expropriated my 7x57. I’ll be replacing it with a 7mm08 if I come across a Tikka or Sako.
The 7x57 will have a slight edge when hunting Wildebeest or Eland.
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06-08-2021, 09:26 #15
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
If the components are avail now I don’t see a problem with any choice.
Dies are bought once off, if you buy 200 Lapua brass with a good annealing process that be a once off as well.
Take the swede, owners now have lots of bullet choices because of the creed.
Just remember, that goes for the 7x57 as well, all local manufacturers make bullets for it, and dies and brass(not lapua) are still only a once off buy.
So get what is avail now sounds logical but if you yourself really wanted a 7x57 I say life is too short, buy one, source one if needs be, you would not have specifically asked about it if there wasn’t a little voice in your mind.
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06-08-2021, 10:48 #16
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
A 308 is no longer the cool kid on the block but it does everything the rest can do and more. More importantly it uses the same bullet as every 30 calibre cartridge out there.
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06-08-2021, 11:39 #17
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
Messor, that voice in my mind are very much with me.
The best solution would be to get both. 6,5x55 for dads girl and 7x57 later for dads boy. He loves the 30-06 (like all youngsters do. Dads gun is the best...). So later in life he can then take the 30-06 and myself will not feel under gunned at all with a 7x57. Or should he change his mind, he can have the 7x57
Thus, I must buy the Howa 6,5 Swede available locally and then over time keep on looking out for a good 7x57.
And then I am finished with this gun buying thing. Everytime is the "last time" I buy another gun. Until the next time arrives. Ai jai jai...
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06-08-2021, 22:07 #18
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
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07-08-2021, 14:30 #19
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Re: 6,5x55 or 7x57
The 7x57 and 7-08 are ballistic twins for all practical purposes. Both are scarce now, the 7-08 more scarce than the 7x57. 7x57 requires a standard action (30-06) length, the 7-08 work from a short action.
The 6.5CM, 260Rem and 6.5x55 are a set of ballistic triplets. The 6,5CM works well with a short action, while the other 2 work best from a standard length action.
The Impala will never know the difference between the lot of them. Choose the correct bullet for the job and place it where it matters and you will have biltong on the drier.
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08-08-2021, 16:19 #20
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The 260 Rem and the 7mm-08 use basically the same case as the 308Win or 243Win. So the 260Rem should also work well in a short action, or not?
Sabbati chambers rifles in 7x57 as well as Mauser. A few years back, CZ did a run in their now discontinued 550. Winchester also chambered their model 70 feather weight in 7x57 for a while. 7x57 or 6.5x55, either will do nicely.
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