Great piece and yeah, the 7x57 definitely ranks up there among a very small elite group of all-round thin-skinned game cartridges.

It's sadly about dead here now.

I had a Ruger Tang Safety job and killed deer and elk with it.

BTW: If any of you are in the area, down in Lewiston, Idaho is a really nice little Jack O'Connor Museum with most all his well-known hunting rifles displayed.

https://jack-oconnor.org/

From the site:

"Jack's famous Biesen stocked M-70 .270 is on display as is Eleanor O'Connor's 7x57 Mauser. These two rifles have appeared in more articles and had more written about them than any rifles in history. Other O'Connor firearms are also on display.

The center houses a gift shop with clothing and other logoed merchandise as well as original O'Connor books for sale."