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LOL, from the front to the rear. I don’t think I’d try the other way.

I’m working up 145 and 139 LRX and preliminaries look promising. Hoping the 145 gr is the best shooter. Happy Trails

Here’s one I took with a 7x57. I think this one was with a 160 Partition though.

What I would have guessed--but had to ask!

That's a lot of good meat. Have killed and eaten nilgai from "trophy" bulls to medium-sized cows, and haven't chewed a bad one yet.....

Hard to beat the 160 Nosler Partition in a 7x57 in my opinion. Or a 7 Win Mag either. If I had to pick one gun and one bullet for everything, it would be one of those.

Lots of good eating there BRISTECD!

I agree, the meat is excellent. My favorite animal to hunt. Better have some help if you get one though.

Funny story. My co-worker and I took an older gentleman hunting one morning. Turned a corner and one was on the ranch road so the guy takes a shot and the bull takes off running. We drive down to where he was and nothing. So we get out and start slipping along, looking. All the sudden, the guy says “there he is” and throws his gun up and shoots, dropping the mature bull. I said “your bull is standing right there facing away from us”. About that time the first bull falls over and now we have two mature bulls on the ground about 30 ft apart. It was a long day.

OMG!

it should be 7Bellxkilled elephants57.

Was going to make a sarcastic reference to how trite that is.
But, you beat me to the draw.

Happy to see this...Im hunting Nilgai in May...with my .275 Rigby.

Mainly because of the query behind this thread...Ive killed a number of elk with the 7x57 and quite a number of like sized African game.

Soo, regardless of Texans thinking their animals are made of Kevlar...I'm taking the .275

Besides, its the biggest gun I own...

Good Deal Poobah! Hope you have a great Hunt! Which part of TX are you hunting in ?

I really like the 150 Nosler BT.

I’d happily use a 7x57 with them for elk.

No elk here, but I loaded some 160gr NPs in my 275Rigby for a NFLD moose hunt last fall.

Shot a smaller 6pt bull at 250yds broadside lung shot. No issues as was expected. ZERO meat loss. I'd use that load again for heavier game.

If you drop by I will lend you my .270 Ingwe.

I appreciate that Ken,but I'm too old and unattractive to turn gay at this late stage.

I see you like the 154 grain Interloc like I do. I found my load with R17 powder. No data, I started with max 7mm-08 data and worked up. 7x57 has around 8 more grains capacity than 7mm-8

I see you used the 170 gr. Sierra round nose Pro-Hunters. How well did they work for you? Did they hold together fairly well? The reason I'm asking is I came into a small sully of those bullets and would like to try them on game.
Paul B.

If you use this website as a reference, shot placement is ALL that matters so if a 22LR is good, that 7X57 is overkill....with proper shot placement of course...

Hyperbole much?

I have killed red stag and brumby, (wild horses) with my old John Rigby 275.
Carried it for elk too, by never punched a tag.

My last elk (and it was truly my last elk) I killed with a 150 grain Nosler Partition and 49 grains of IMR-4350 with a MV of slightly over 2700 fps. The cow went maybe 50 yards before dropping with both lungs out of action. No bullet found and it still may be going.