Still no scope mount yet, only iron sights .. at 50 and 100 yards with the S&B 173grs.

she''s showing ya she can shoot, good on you!very nice rifle thanks 4 shareing jjmp

Does anyone have a good picture with the 7X64,7x57, 06, and 9.3x64? Sounds like a good study.

Brenneke's children all
7x64 8x64 9.3x64

7x57 7x64 3006 9.3x62 9.3x64 375 H&H

Thanks guys. A feast for the eyes. To the 9.3X62 - that particular bullet looks like an energy transferring fool. Packy

Excellent Euro cartridge, American knockoff is .270Win.
Here is another nice looking 7x64:
Euro ".270"

Forgot to mention that that 9.3x62 is an A Square Dead Tough lion load.

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Originally posted by Paolo9,5x73:
Excellent Euro cartridge, American knockoff is .270Win.
Here is another nice looking 7x64:
Euro ".270"

Ahem. Don't you mean .280 Remington?

I love the 7x64mm, and it is ancient, when compared to the .280, even the .270!!! Got a real thrill shooting an old FN Supreme(circa 1955) in 7x64 last month. The old rifle slipped right into an inch with Federal 160 grain Nosler loads. Now I need to go out an zap another deer!
LLS

Beautiful old rifle and a great cartridge. You should be able to pick up a suitable period scope and mounts for sensible money from ebay in europe.

Check out this one: 6625152148. Plug that number into ebay. It's a kahles with claws attached.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but something about that target doesn't look right to me. The holes do not look like bullet holes from any rifle I've ever shot or seen shot at a paper target. They look like they were made with a paper punch, or maybe with wadcutter bullets from a handgun. Every bullet hole I've ever seen made by a rifle bullet in a paper target has an inner hole with an outer black, or darkened, ring around it.

Lloyd

I'm shooting the equivelent of SWC rifle bullets.. They're 7x64's from S&B.

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Originally posted by richj:
Lloyd

I'm shooting the equivelent of SWC rifle bullets.. They're 7x64's from S&B.

OK. That explains the clean holes in the paper. I had never seen such a bullet for rifle cartridges until I saw your photograph.

That "ring" on those SWC 7x64 Brenneke bullets is a "Scharfrand" which litterally tranlslates to "Sharp Edge" but I figure you could also interpret it a as "Cutting Edge".

Those neat, clean target holes are caused by the Scharfrand which is meant to cut hair whent he bullet enters a game animal. If you know what you are looking for and can judge where the beast was standing when shot - you can easily find the hairs on the ground.

Another advantage of the "Scharfrand" is a wadcutter-style entry wound, which stays open and bleeds more profusely than a mere puncture.

André,

Yup, you're right, the bleeding, sorry forgot that one!

Wildcat Junkie,

Actually, Paolo is correct. While the 7x64 is a true .284" caliber and you would imagine it's immediate next-of-kin to be the .280 Remington; in Europe the 7x64 fills the niche occupied in North America by the .270 Winchester.

It is very popular here in Europe, as an all round cartridge and when coupled with some of the lighter weight bullets manufactered here is a flat shooting number. I have heard it referred to here as the "European .270". I also think it is a pretty spiffy-looking cartridge with a more oprtimzed shape/volume than either the .270 Win. or .280 Rem. which are simply .30/06 derivatives.

Having said that, the 7x64, .270 Win., 280 Rem. & 284 Win. are pretty much to my way of thinking - very similar performing cartridges.

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Originally posted by Gerry:

While the 7x64 is a true .284" caliber and you would imagine it's immediate next-of-kin to be the .280 Remington...

Here in the US, some loading manuals treat the 280 Remington and the 7X64 as identical for loading purposes, i.e. the same loading data is given for both.

Lloyd,

Yup, correctomundo on the changable loading data - I've seen this constellation before also.

I wasn't exactly refering to the cartridge similariites but rather the way the chambering is perceived here together with the .270 Win.

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Originally posted by Gerry:

I wasn't exactly refering to the cartridge similariites but rather the way the chambering is perceived here together with the .270 Win.

In the US, the 280 Remington was, I understand, originally intended for and offered in Remington's slide (pump) action and autoloader rifles, and it was always underloaded a bit, compared to the .270 Winchester, which, from the beginning, was loaded to higher pressures and velocities because it was first introduced in Winchester's bolt action rifles. That trend continued for a long time, even after the .280 was offered in Remington and other bolt action rifles -- .270 rifles and loads were usually "hotter" here than .280 Remington loads.

Before introduction of the .280 by Remington in 1957, there was a common wildcat called the 7mm-06. That one seems to have disappeared.

In any case, for handloaders, loading data (except possibly case trim length) for the .280 Remington, 7mm Express Remington (another name Remington used for some time for the same cartridge -- the name change only succeeded in introducing more confusion), the 7mm-06, and the 7x64 is completely interchangeable.

Those S&B "wadcutters" really work too! My Steyr 7x64 really likes them, and the bullets performed perfectly on plains game in Africa.

LLS

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
Forgot to mention that that 9.3x62 is an A Square Dead Tough lion load.

Dead Tough or Lion Load?!

For me it looks like the Dead Tough!