First One

For Christmas, my wife bought me a Winchester 70 Featherweight in 7x57. I installed a Cabela's Instinct 4-12 scope on it and headed to the range with the only ammo I could find, PPU. The rifle is light easy handling and good looking. Fighting with what seems an 8 pound trigger, I managed to hold it steady enough to get some good some good groups. The large group is 1.25" and I haven't measured the small one. These are the largest and smallest groups of the day and was at 200 yards, everything else fell in between. I will admit to being pretty impressed with the FN models.

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Nice rifle. The new FN Winnies are supposed to have adjustable triggers in them now. I currently have 3 M70's, but much older rifles.
You have a classic rifle in a classic caliber.
Enjoy.

Looks pretty FN good!

Thanks. I am a FN fan and figured it would be a good hunting rifle and pretty to look at, didn't expect my large group to be .5 MOA with a 12x scope. Hopefully with some light loads with 120 BallisticTips, my daughter will take her first deer next fall.

My only 7mm anything is a Contender carbine in 7x30 Waters. I'm getting very tight groups with the Nosler Combined Technology 140 gr bullets. They run out of my barrel at ~2400 fps. I think you're velocity will be around 2700-2800 fps with same bullet. It does a super job on deer sized game. The regular Nosler Ballistic Tip is the same bullet without the coating.