7x57R and 6.5x57R????
Had somebody looking for these two today! I speak English!!! Found a lot of sites on the web that list them but don't have a clue what they said in their ads or posts!!! Where can I get some of the rounds? (Almost stopped the last question at where can I get some but thought that would invite a lot of crude comments!)[:D]GHD
0
-
I am not aware of a 6.5x57R, but the 7x57R is a rimmed version of the 7x57 Mauser and ammo should be available from S&B or Fiocchi. The 6.5x55 is the 6.5 Swedish but I have never encountered a 6.5x57R.
Love them Beavers
SUPPORT THE I.N.S. , THE COUNTRY THEY SAVE COULD BE YOUR OWN0 -
KJ, Neither had I until today!! The same guy that I got the shotgun loading stuff off of had a Drilling chambered for it!! No wonder he was selling his reloading stuff! If you can own those kind of guns, you can sip your Chardonay and admire them! To hell with reloading for em!!! GHD 0 -
Yep, I've only seen the 7x57R offered for drillings and OU shotgun/rifle combos. Seems more trouble than its worth.
Love them Beavers
SUPPORT THE I.N.S. , THE COUNTRY THEY SAVE COULD BE YOUR OWN0 -
S & B lists both cartridges on their web-site, if they are both available on this side of the pond, is another question?
http://www.sb-usa.com/rifle.htm
Believe the 6.5 x 57R is the rimmed version of the Portuguese military round. The body diameter is something like .007 in diameter smaller then the Swede 6.5 x 55, very very obscure here in the land of the big PX.0 -
Rufe,
Wasn't that the "Kropatchek" or something like that?
Love them Beavers
SUPPORT THE I.N.S. , THE COUNTRY THEY SAVE COULD BE YOUR OWN0 -
KJ, See what I mean? Now I've even got you trying to write in tongues!!! GHD 0 -
No, the Portuguese round was called the "VERGUEIRO". They really went off the deep end when they bought new rifles for their army back in the early 19 hundreds. Not only did they go with this Vergueiro round, that nobody else used, BUT they designed a bastard rifle ( Mauser only made it for this one Portuguese contract ) that was half Mauser and half Mannlicher ( split bridge receiver ), really really weird? 0 -
Thanks for the info, guess I got some new trivia to look into. Guess they just had to be different.[;)]
Love them Beavers
SUPPORT THE I.N.S. , THE COUNTRY THEY SAVE COULD BE YOUR OWN0 -
Rufe, the Portugese have always tended to take "the road less traveled" - much like the french, with equally impressive results. [:D]
KJ, the Kropatschek came in two flavors - the "short" (8x56R) and the standard (8x60R); these were used from 1899 until supplanted by the 6x58 Vergueiro in 1904. Interestingly, it is far easier to find the 8x60R than the 6x58!!!!!
Charlie, to address your original question, the 6.5x57R & 7x57R rounds are simply the rimmed versions of the 6.5x57 / 7x57 and used in various European (primarily German) weapons with break-open actions - whether doubles, singles, drillings or the even more exotic types. Not really all that unusual, but relatively hard to obtain this side of the Pond. The 7mm is usually easier to obtain than the 6.5. Norma, RWS, DWM all made it at one time and probably still do. The problem is finding it Stateside.0 -
Old Western Scrounger carries the 6.5 x 57R. It's a 7x57Rmm necked down. Cheap it ain't. $18 and up for brass. Over $100 for dies.
http://www.ows-ammunition.com/0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
10 comments