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dotchicco
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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: dotchicco]
      #333020 - 05/10/19 02:38 AM

Gentlemen,
the field experience with this elegant Caliber is still going with extreme pleasure.
After the fallow deer, was the time of a nice chamois. An old Female, 12 years old. She was the matriarch of the herd, survived to the sarcoptic mange of 10 years ago.
After a long approach, hiding between stones of an ancient glacier, we waited patiently for 3 hours and half. They were feeding and resting 400 meters below us, and the old female was laying on the floor, so that was impossible to exstimate her age.
After long time she finally jumped on her cloven hooves. So after few seconds i was able to shot. At 240 meters the old female was hitted in the Blatt, and just falled down.
We need a quarter of an hour to reach the death chamois. And 2 hours of walk to come back to the car.
The shot wasn't easy, due to the long wait at low temperature, a precarious support and the site angle. After all, the old 7 Vom Hofe did the job in the habitual way.
It has been the most exciting hunt in my life.

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Edited by dotchicco (05/10/19 03:18 AM)

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: dotchicco]
      #333022 - 05/10/19 02:44 AM

WOW - great pictures and cool hunt, Enrico.
Beautiful country - breathtakingly beautiful.

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: DarylS]
      #333029 - 05/10/19 03:19 AM

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WOW - great pictures and cool hunt, Enrico.
Beautiful country - breathtakingly beautiful.



Italian Dolomiti.

Doc

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: dotchicco]
      #333046 - 05/10/19 01:57 PM

Italian Dolomites. Lovely countryside and scenery. I have not been to that part of Italy, yet.

Well done and congratulations Dotchicco!

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: NitroX]
      #333055 - 05/10/19 06:07 PM

Congratulations on your nice chamois, Enrico; now that you have been infected by the mountain hunting virus, you'll see that you should in the future write many hunting reports like this one!
By the way, isn't the Mauser 66 in 7x66 VHSE too heavy a rifle for roving the mountains?
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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: Louis]
      #333072 - 06/10/19 06:23 AM

It's an heavy but accurate rifle, and i'm still strong enough to carry it... For some years i hope..
Doc

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: dotchicco]
      #345665 - 09/10/20 04:14 AM

dotchicco's article on the 7x66 mm SEvH

https://mauserfanatic.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/7x66-super-express-vom-hofe-la-chimera-2/

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: NitroX]
      #345667 - 09/10/20 04:27 AM

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: lancaster]
      #345673 - 09/10/20 05:41 PM

Nice hunting area, animal and rifle. Interested in your aging of the chamois, it looks in very good condition so is feeding well with a good mouth of teeth? The annual growth rings we can see in the photo looks to age the chamois at about 6 or 7 years allowing 1 year for the hook, another 1 or 2 years for the main length and then can count another 3 or 4 rings to the base? Are there more growth rings below what can be seen in the photo?

I have shot a 14 year old buck chamois which despite being in an area with plenty of good food and with other animals in top condition, it was visibly old and in poor condition. It's horns were worn down but growth rings easy to count allowing 3 years for the horn that was worn away.

14 year old buck chamois

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Re: 7x66 Super Express vom Hofe - NEW ARTICLE [Re: NitroX]
      #345675 - 09/10/20 07:44 PM

Quote:

dotchicco's article on the 7x66 mm SEvH

https://mauserfanatic.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/7x66-super-express-vom-hofe-la-chimera-2/



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Re: 7x66 Super Express vom Hofe - NEW ARTICLE [Re: NitroX]
      #345679 - 09/10/20 11:10 PM

Great article Doc!
Amazing to see where & how this fantastic cartridge had its roots in German gunsmithing & ammunition history.
I knew Herr Brenneke was a genius when it came to a more effective cartridge design, but August Vom Hofe took it one more step being influenced by his work. It is amazing to see such brilliant cartridges & projectiles were already designed nearly 100 years before all the fanfare of 'modern' times!
Great old chamois mate, it was certainly a tough hunt waiting patiently to get....one you'll remember for a lifetime!
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Re: 7x66 Super Express vom Hofe - NEW ARTICLE [Re: 93x64mm]
      #355579 - 26/07/21 05:58 PM

One thing I don't understand is what happens to the 7x66 SEvH cartridge when fired? What happens to its neck and or shoulder? Some comments seem to say it develops a bulge or a second shoulder??? I am not sure, therefore the query.

If true I assume the chamber is cut differently to how the brass is sized?

Strange and would put the brass under stress and greatly lessen longevity.

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Re: 7x66 Super Express vom Hofe - NEW ARTICLE [Re: NitroX]
      #355580 - 26/07/21 06:05 PM

" The 7×66 SE however has one aspect of its design that remains unique (at least to the best of my knowledge), and that is that it features a double venturi shoulder that forms when the cartridge is fired. "



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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: dotchicco]
      #356548 - 04/09/21 03:50 PM

Quote:

Quote:

WOW - great pictures and cool hunt, Enrico.
Beautiful country - breathtakingly beautiful.



Italian Dolomiti.

Doc



Turned on the TV at lunch and being shown was some spectacular Italian mountain scenery, lovely rushing mountain rivers and streams and waterfalls. Beautiful alpine forests. Stark rocky peaks.

Then the beautiful scenery devolved into a boring bike sporting race commentary. Not interested in that.

But was interested to see where it was. The Va di Sole - Trentino. I accidently grafted some buds onto my vines through a purchase of "old vine shiraz" cuttings, som "Moscato Rosa di Trentino". The grower selling them to my grafting contractor, either accidentally mixed up bundles of cuttings or decided to make a quick buck. Moscato Rosa di Trentino is a pink variety of Moscato grapes. My buying winemaker decided he desired them, to make a pink fortified wine. Moscato is often made into a semi sweet pink cheaper wine. But it is will be interesting to see if a nice fortified works out. At the moment the four or so rows of Semillon vines which were supposed to be grafted to Shiraz but instead to a Moscato Rosa, are cropping only a very small yield. No many vines in the four rows, and also the grafts need to grow stronger. But I like the idea of these Moscato Rosa di Trentino and the possibilities of a different Barossa wine from them.

So was interested to see the lovely alpine valleys of the Trentino area of NE Italy. In the same region as where our friend Dotchicco hunted in this thread. In the Italian Dolomiti.

I really want to visit the alpine region of Italy one day. The scenery is magnificent. The air and atmosphere must be breathtaking. And perhaps combine it with a "tax deductible research trip". To see how the Trentini Moscato's are made and used.

This is assuming the covid BS ever finishes, personal travel and freedoms are restored from the currtent Stalinist regimes, and the covid un-vaxxed like me are ever let out of our cages ....

Such a beautfitul part of Italy and Italy is such a beautiful country. I have visited it at least three times. A fourth to the Dolomites, Piedmont, in the North and maybe sunny hot Sicilia in the South. Lovely.

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Re: 7x66 Vom Hofe Super Express. [Re: NitroX]
      #356549 - 04/09/21 03:52 PM

https://www.tripsavvy.com/guide-to-the-italian-dolomite-mountains-4585156

Italy's Dolomites Region: The Complete Guide

The Dolomite Mountains of Italy are a 4-season wonderland

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