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Hello all, I have been afforded the opportunity to procure some 96 and 95 small ring mauser actions. Here are my thoughts/questions... I would like a straight wall cartridge that I could take to the states that require them because I live near many of those states, however, I am not too awfully...

I was able to find some rough load data from an old thread about 7x57ai the load data was posted by DrMike in the thread. I think I'm going to start with the winchester 760 load rated at 50250 psi for 150 grain bullets, it says it should be pushing 150 grain bullet just a hair over 2700 fps at...

Thank you everyone for your help, it seems like I'll have a good place to start, I've been looking into slower burning powders that would work good with my goals and I anticipate to have the rifle ready for the woods (not pretty and polished yet) by sometime in January

Thank you guys for giving me an idea of where to start, I probably should have went a little longer on the barrel but too late now lol, I wanted something handy in the woods. What do you say as far as chamber pressure, my original goal as mentioned was to try to stay at or below 55000 but if the...

Hello, I am new to the forum, I am a young hobby gunsmith and sometimes my ideas get out of hand, I have a 1903/14/27 mannlicher-schoenauer action that I anticipate to chamber in 7x57ai 17.5" barrel and I have 2 questions. Firstly, I know given the barrel length I will lose some velocity, but...