Where are the .257 Roberts?

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I been looking for a .257 Roberts, I am almost 60 and got away from large calibers, .308 is largest I shoot anymore. Buds gun shop, Impact guns, Guns America, none have any listed. I know Ruger and Winchester still chamber rifles in .257 but can find one anywhere. Been wanting to treat myself to one for Christmas. For my part of Texas this caliber will do the job for any game animal....and I just flat want one.
 
Maybe closest you can find in new rifles 25-06.

Before the 25-06 came out the .257 was a real deal. After they were both around the one popular in the 1950's and 1960's fell off the list of calibers. There was a time when both were a little bit on the custom fringe.

They are both very good deer rounds.
 
There's one in my safe, but not for sale. I killed my first buck with it, a Ruger 77 RL Ultra Light. I got interested in the caliber from reading and finally found one used but good at a gun show, years ago. I agree that I don't see many these days at shows.
 
Savage makes several rifles in .257 Roberts. Their custom shop can chamber any rifle they make in that caliber, too, and for not much more than an off-the-shelf rifle.
 
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I have Two .257 Roberts Barrels waiting to be mounted on Mauser actions.
I love that caliber and the 25-06 for longer range, and already built two of them on Mauser actions.
I am going to build the .257 Roberts on Yugo mauser Actions since they are mid length actions.
I have the barrels, wood for the stock, the rifles all the tools, except for the chamber reamer to go to .257 Roberts Improved.
I just don't have the Money or really the time to build another rifle right now.
 
It took me two years to find an A-Bolt Medallion in .257 Roberts. Now that I have it in my possession, that's where it's staying.
 
How about a .257 Weatherby? Their Vanguard S2 rifles in that caliber are pretty readily available.
 
I know where they are not: at my range leaving brass around. I really like the 257, but unfortunately it has fallen out of favor and I think it will become more and more scarce. I think you may want to pick a different caliber. maybe a 243, a 6.5x55, or a 7mm-08?

of you could have a shaw mk7 built chambered in one. it will be a savage action in a boyds stock with pretty much any shaw barrel you want attached. Should run you less than a grand.
 
I think most people that have a 257 Bob will keep it, add that to a diminishing new supply of rifles in that chambering and you have your answer. I know for certain my GEW88 rebarreled to 257 bob aint going nowhere.
 
My cousin/shooting buddy/best friend has a Model-70 in .257 Bob. IIRC, his dad, my great uncle, ordered it from Spiveys Sporting Goods in Lexington,Ky in 1959.IIt probably hasn't had 10 rounds thru it. It looks brand new.
 
I think Robert is right.

You may have to have someone special order one for you.
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I saw a gentleman at my LGS picking up a Winchester in .257 about four months ago. I think it was a Featherweight. He had ordered it eight or nine months beforehand, so they're out there, just hard to find.
 
Got a nice old mod. 70 Win. super grade ser.no. 62xxx, .257 roberts but no plans to part with it. good accurate rifle.
 
I have a new 257 roberts that was built on a yugo captured K98 action. I've seen a few others around here at pawn shops and gun stores, but not a ton.

I'm still trying to find brass, though. I picked up 50 cases when I sent the receiver and barrel off to be mounted and headspaced, but I should have picked up a bunch more. No one has it in stock and I have (or am having built) guns in all of the other related 57mm-length chamberings so I don't want to make brass out of those and have the wrong head stamp on it.

Matt
 
I am far from gun poor, I got just about every caliber out there. the .257 Roberts is one dI don't own. like I said I don't want anymore shoulder bruisers and the .257 Weatherby mag is another one....right now the rifles that go with me to the pasture or deer lease are in .308, 7mm-08, .22-250, 7x57. the others stay in the safe....I just want a .257 Roberts...just cuz......
 
TexasPatriot.308 I been looking for a .257 Roberts, I am almost 60 and got away from large calibers, .308 is largest I shoot anymore. Buds gun shop, Impact guns, Guns America, none have any listed. I know Ruger and Winchester still chamber rifles in .257 but can find one anywhere. Been wanting to treat myself to one for Christmas. For my part of Texas this caliber will do the job for any game animal....and I just flat want one.

i've been looking for 20+ years, hopefully money is on the way and i'll be happy:D

t/c encore, 21" MGM Barrel heavy factory, in the 257 bob ai
i've got the frame all i need is the barrel
 
I have a. .257 Weatherby and it's recoil is about the same as my .308. I fired 40 rounds through it one day to break the barrel in, and I was completely comfortable afterwards.

Weatherby rifles, between the recoil pads on them and the stock design aren't punishing.
 
Some of the more recent ( last 30 years) crop of factory 257 Roberts rifles have been handicapped by being offered in short actions. This forced the factory bullets to be shoved way back into the powder thus reducing velocity. It probably goofed up the legendary 257 Roberts accuracy.

The old custom rifles that were built on long Model 70s or Model 98 Mausers allowed the bullets to be loaded long like a Swede Mauser.

An intermediate length action like a Yugo M-48 makes a great basis for a custom 257 Roberts. If you give it a long enough throat.
 
The old 257 Roberts never caught on. It's too big ricochet and noise wise as a chuck gun and most want more power for big game.

Nor does it fill long actions well nor fit it short actions.

What little popularity it had died with the introduction of the 243 Winchester.

However it's a rifle cartridge and interesting in a way I suppose.
 
There's a place not far from Luling that most likely has some Winchester M70's in the Roberts, it's in Buda next to the water tower called Cabelas.
 
What is wrong with a .25-06 with a Boyd's laminated stock? My XL7 probably recoils less in that Boyd's stock than a .257 Featherweight.
 
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