1948CJ2A
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I can remember "back in the day" I had a reloading manual that clearly showed the 7x57 Mauser could out preform the 7mm-08 Rem. There was an asterisk/addendum somewhere on the page that indicated the loads were only for modern rifles and should not be used in older platforms.
Fast forward to the last few years, heck maybe even decade. This is no longer the case. Most if not all of the updated reloading manuals I read and own show the 7mm-08 to slightly outperform the 7x57. If you dig in you'll realize they dropped the pressure in the 7x57 handloads down to near that of factory loads. Even with that, some of the books still maintained the nomenclature for the safety warning. Furthermore if you weren't around or messing with this stuff 20+ years ago you wouldn't have any idea this was the case.
My point to all this being, as we as a firearms enthusiast community move forward, the various vendors of the components we use (firearms, ammo, reloading gear, etc.) tend to marginalize the once more clearly defined differences in our relatively vast pool of choices. I try and take everything with a grain of salt. What these reloading manuals today tell us aren't necessarily the gospel. Of course, safety first as always.
Fast forward to the last few years, heck maybe even decade. This is no longer the case. Most if not all of the updated reloading manuals I read and own show the 7mm-08 to slightly outperform the 7x57. If you dig in you'll realize they dropped the pressure in the 7x57 handloads down to near that of factory loads. Even with that, some of the books still maintained the nomenclature for the safety warning. Furthermore if you weren't around or messing with this stuff 20+ years ago you wouldn't have any idea this was the case.
My point to all this being, as we as a firearms enthusiast community move forward, the various vendors of the components we use (firearms, ammo, reloading gear, etc.) tend to marginalize the once more clearly defined differences in our relatively vast pool of choices. I try and take everything with a grain of salt. What these reloading manuals today tell us aren't necessarily the gospel. Of course, safety first as always.