Thread: 257 roberts

everyone seems hooked up on muzzle velocity no one has touched on accuracy ,recoil,barrel life,or noise level ?

Originally Posted by sakkaranz

everyone seems hooked up on muzzle velocity no one has touched on accuracy ,recoil,barrel life,or noise level ?

Im unlike everyone else who has commented so far as I have no real world experience with all the above mentioned cartridges ...so I'd just get a .260. Cheap to run, good barrel life, recoil zero and usable on varmints deer etc... and you can be Gimps' mate not these other prick's mate bye


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Originally Posted by Danny

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You and gimp have sooo degraded the term "bye".

"potential for me to own it" would be one way of looking at it


"offering the right mix of characteristics to make it an attractive and sensible choice" might be another way of phrasing it, although meaning the exact same thing

Originally Posted by gimp

"potential for me to own it" would be one way of looking at it


"offering the right mix of characteristics to make it an attractive and sensible choice" might be another way of phrasing it, although meaning the exact same thing

more 'suitability' than potential then.

Just remembered I had a couple of old pics of my Roberts' victims.

Originally Posted by Shearer

You also said you'd be mad to use 120s in a 6.5?
Now I don't know what to believe....

Not gimp. He's talking out his arse.

Intresting the way this thread has gone, I kinda like the 1/4 bore, currently own a finlight 2506, shot a few deer, goats etc, worked as well as anything else, I have used, But the old 2506 is limited a bit with a short 22" barrel and likely no faster that a 257 Roberts.
Shot a few deer with a 250 savage, another old but capable deer cal.
Only about 3g difference in powder capacity, between the 243 and 257 bob, so really not a lot of difference, the bob being able to handle heavier bullets at sensiable speeds. 110gr accubond at 2900 ish.
The 1/4 bore, is the dog, in long range bullets, no one makes a decient BC bullet, good enough to 400 , after that pick some thing else. 6.5, 7mm etc.
Local gun store selling cooper fire arms, said he sell lots of .257 Roberts, and even more off the improved version,
I would like one, in a win M70 featherweight, but already got a featherweight in 7x57, so no real need.
As the starting poster asked about 22-250, I had two and sold them both off, might have kept one, but the 1-14 twist is a handicap, they are too noisy and expensive for varminting, great for long range predator hunting, If either of mine would have been able to shoot a 70-75gr bullet might have keep it , but I traded them off for a New CDL 6mm Remington.

I to have used the .25 cal for many years in both 25/06 and 25/08 IMP but also only out to 500M, and yes the 06 is better off with a 24" barrel which is why I had the 25/08 made as I could get over 3000 fps with the 120 grn out of a 22" barrel with only 49 grns of powder.
Great cal but have now changed to the 6.5 and at this stage it doesn't do anything that the .25 couldn't do, so who knows maybe ill have another 25/08 soon.

This has been a great thread. So entertaining.
It pretty much proves that if you haven't done it a lot, or seen it a lot, you are just guessing.

Originally Posted by Tahr

This has been a great thread. So entertaining.
It pretty much proves that if you haven't done it a lot, or seen it a lot, you are just guessing.

You don't have to take a big ol' bite out of a shit sandwich to make an educated guess that it's not real tasty

Originally Posted by gimp

You don't have to take a big ol' bite out of a shit sandwich to make an educated guess that it's not real tasty

I thought you said "bye".

Thrice

I hope this thread carries on, I'd like to hear some real world experience of a 24" 25-06 running an accurate 100gr Nosler Bt at 31-3200fps.
Take a bit of beating over 3-400 yrds.