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We've often pondered what the Swiss 7.5x55 might be capable of...

Wouldnt the throat issues be addressed with the rebarrel and chambering?

No idea on what a 7.5 would be like at 1000, but I shot a friends nice standard at 200, with ppu and it was a group of around 2.5moa. Very nice rifle.

psychosomatic88 wrote:Wouldnt the throat issues be addressed with the rebarrel and chambering?

No idea on what a 7.5 would be like at 1000, but I shot a friends nice standard at 200, with ppu and it was a group of around 2.5moa. Very nice rifle.

If your gunsmith has got a match 7.92 chamber reamer to hand (assuming that such a thing exists). 7.92X57mm IS has never been a popular match number, not even in Germany I believe, where in the good old days when match quality single-shot G98s were used in competitive rifle shooting, they were chambered for an originally blackpowder Schuetzen match cartridge, the 8.15X46R. (Traditionally, most European competitive rifle shooting is over 300 metres.) Then, of course, twice during the last century, the Germans had very strict rules and restrictions applied in the aftermath of two lost wars to the manufacture, ownership and use of 'military' weapons and cartridges. By the time the first lot of sanctions was eased, the Third Reich was only interested in developing its smallarms for the next series of hostilities, and by the time the second lot had eased post 1955, the newly formed Bundeswehr and civilian shooters starting up again alongside went very quickly into the 7.62 Nato era.

7.5 Swiss would make an excellent L-R cartridge. Ballistically, it's a match for .308 Win, as it is for accuracy in equivalent rifles, and of course they share bullets both being 0.300/308 calibre despite the Swiss number being called a 7.5mm (which it was in its very earliest version).