To you 7x57 users, what was the biggest/heaviest game animal you shot with the little/wonderful mauser cartrige? loads? rifles? comments?
Using 162 fmj pbt bullets at 2600 fps., I harvested a couple of waterbuffalo - adult males - without complains, frontal head shots just above the nostrils. Instant kills. distances: 80 yds ( careful stalk) and 20 yds ( not exactly a 'charging' one, because it was trotting towards me instead of galloping, while some females and calves run away).
Ah, rifle is a mauser 98 sporterized.

[ 12-26-2002, 18:37: Message edited by: graff ]

Cartridges are not as important as the man behind the gun. That's the primary factor.

After that I would rate bullets as most important and not the particular brass case.

wasn't it "karamojo" Bell that used the 275 rigby the ballistic twin of the 7x57 to take hundreds of elephants? don't also the inuit natives routinely use a 30-30 for walrus and polar bear? and they say the 223 is too small for deer! Put the right bullet in the right spot it'll surprize you, just the bigger the animal the smaller the spot is and the deeper ya gotta go to reach it
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I wouldn't try taking anything more dangerous than black bear or crocks!

It is enough gun to take eland if you have the 175 grain premium bullets.

Ridge Runner,

William Maitland Dalrymple (Karamojo) Bell hunted at a time when elephant were plentiful and unaccustomed to being hunted. He would work his way into the middle of a herd and try to down as many as he could. While he did survive to retire in Scotland, his last hunts were a series of hair raising escapes from much more wary elephants.

Frankly, I don't think there is any man alive who posses the marksmanship and field skills that Bell and his peers possessed.

The 7mm/.275 is an old friend in India and game as large as tiger has been shot here with it. I have never hunted tiger or any other dangerous game and can only say that I have a friend in Coorg who has an old Mauser rifle in this caliber that he regularly uses to hunt boar on his estate.

Good shooting!