Thread: 257 roberts

Originally Posted by gimp

also .257 Roberts has a certain intangible factor of being "neat". Bye for real this time

Indeed it does, it has a certain old school cachet.

Whenever I write something its always about killing deer, and with a 6.5 and 120's, I found that the 120's killed deer better in the 6.5x55 than the 140's. I thought there was a definite difference.

Your comment about the .243 having more potential than a .25/06, I don't quite understand, perhaps a typo and you meant the .257 Roberts, but I would disagree with you even there, assuming both loaded to the same pressures. But this is not a put down of the .243 because I love that little killer like a brother and I am trying not to buy another one at the moment.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

Indeed it does, it has a certain old school cachet.

Whenever I write something its always about killing deer, and with a 6.5 and 120's, I found that the 120's killed deer better in the 6.5x55 than the 140's. I thought there was a definite difference.

Your comment about the .243 having more potential than a .25/06, I don't quite understand, perhaps a typo and you meant the .257 Roberts, but I would disagree with you even there, assuming both loaded to the same pressures. But this is not a put down of the .243 because I love that little killer like a brother and I am trying not to buy another one at the moment.

You just haven't been using the correct 140 grain bullets, I think.

Absolutely not a typo, but as above, it depends how you define potential.