My 204 was a savage. Shot pretty good for an off the shelf rifle with the cheapest/ugliest, floppy synthetic stock you can imagine. I poured the barrel channel and hollow butt full of shot. Weighed about 12 pounds, so no recoil and you could really watch the impact on the prairie dogs in the scope
Boy.., I can’t say, I looked at so many guns that weekend. It’s one of those really practical rounds that never really got very popular and has since gone obsolete. Not many companies made them in any real numbers. Seems most of them fall into the collector category, pre -64 Winchesters are probably the most common. Sporterized Mauser are probably next. I recall seeing one post 64 Winchester featherweight in 257 Roberts, don’t know what the price was but those are the rifles that really trip my trigger, so I’m kinda familiar with them and their prices, guessing it should have been in the $1200-$1500 range.
Definitely not a popular/common round around here. Older gun guys that know em like em. To many black guns and super whiz bang knock ‘em dead twice cartridges on the market now
I find an action I want, spin a barrel on it for the cartridge I want. my .243 Winchester and .260 Remington are prime example. SAAMI specs show you want or will get a 1:10 twist barrel and that’s what most gun manufacturers will build them with. for them to be as good as a creedmor, 6 or 6.5, then they need to have a 1:8 twist barrel. that’s how I build my .260 Remington. With a 1:8 twist barrel. I can easily get 2800 fps with a 140 gr bullet and the thing is shooting under 1/2 MOA.
The 257 at this auction has an Ackley improved, according to my reading the 257 was one of the calibers that benefited the most from improved. But thats neither here nor there, the gun still has to sell in my wheelhouse.
Not a popular round. I've heard it's a great cartridge, but if it never took off, it's hard to bother with it. I've only seen ammo at the biggest of gun/ hunting stores. I'm not a 6.5 creedmoor fan, but I'd take a 6.5 creedmoor over a 257 Roberts, but I'd probably just go with a 7mm-08 and take that for deer.
I know little about the .257 roberts. what I’ve read about it, se Seems like a 1/4 bore version of a .30-30 almost.
The way I understand it, the 1:10 twist was kinda what killed the Roberts. Couldn’t stabilize 100gr bullets very well, if the manufacturers would have made it 1:9 or 1:8, it would probably gained a bigger following. There’s been so many new cartridges introduced in the last decade it’s gotten kinda ridiculous. None of them are revolutionary except perhaps the short fat ones. It’s all about marketing and selling new products to people that always have to have the latest and greatest things that none of their buddies have. Just my $.02
I’d be curious to know what it goes for. We had one on our shopping list at Tulsa and didn’t see a single one. If it is in any kind of good condition it’ll probably fetch $1000-$1400
prior to 2004, a lot of these high BC bullets with heavy for cartridge weight to get to distance didn’t exist. Especially back in the 50’s. Those saami specs haven’t changed or been considered by the manufacturers for those new bullets we have available today.
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