7.5x55 Swiss for hunting

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Scrumbag

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Hello folks,

Has anyone any experience of using the 7.5x55 Swiss as a hunting round? The removal of French military calibre restrictions has got me thinking...

So, I'd appreciate anyone's experience / thoughts on ammunition and suitability. Had a look at the Norma website and they load a 180gr Oryx which seems to be good an paper. Does anyone else make expanding ammo for it?

So, thanks in advance for your input.

ATB,

Scrummy
(PS Mods, if this should be in the hunting section, apologies and please move)
 
I've never hunted with mine but I wouldn't be worried at all about doing so. Power-wise it's in the same class as the 30-06, .308, 8 mm etc. Hornady, Wolf and Prvi all make soft-point ammo for it. If you reload you can use the same .308 bullets as the 30-06/.308 and there's about 40 bazillion choices of bullet type.

They are also quite accurate, widely regarded as one of the most accurate vintage military bolt guns.
 
There is deer hunting in France?
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Apparently. Although I think, compared to the US deer are rather oui. :D

((wee=small)) for those who don't get the pun...

7.5mm Swiss is as good for deer (with hunting bullets) as anything else in the same general power class. 300 meters easily enough, more, if you are a good shot at distance.

And Hodaka, I used to have a Super Rat. Great bike. A bit ..quirky.. compared to most others, but once you understood it, great bike.
 
Maybe they imported some of the Texas Hill Country deer. About the size of a big dog. Yes, Hodaka's were neat little bikes and I'm a bit quirky myself. The best part of the brand were the names of the models. I had a Combat Wombat myself.
 
I had thought that surplus 7.5 Swiss was Berdan primed. I have no experience with this cartridge, but have been interested in the Swiss surplus rifles, straight pull action and gossiped to be about the most accurate service rifles ever made.

Norma has and may still make Boxer primed brass for it. I don't know much about S&B and Privy ammo. Anyone know where they are manufactured, and how they perform? I use Lapua and Norma-Weatherby brass and consider them absolutely superior to any domestic brass, in my rifles requiring it.

Not trying to hijack this thread, but I had some questions about 7.5 also.
 
I've been reloading the Swiss round for about 15 years. I started with about 100 Norma brass and still have about 20. At the time that was all that existed. In my more recent experience, Privi brass works quite well. I bought 10 boxes of loaded ammo from AIM several years ago and am still using that brass. The Privi ammo shoots very well, nearly as good as my reloads. I hear the Swiss surplus, that is Berdan primed BTW, is very good ammo, but all FMJ. The sights on the K-31 are typical European and they suck, at least compared to US military rifles, but a clamp on mount is available that allows a scope to be added without drilling the receiver.
 
I used Hornady softpoints on 3 Minnesota Whitetails... dropped them as if they were hit by "Thor's Hammer". Massive exit wound.

CZVZ
 
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