I've always wanted a 7x57 and looked hard at the Ruger No. 1A in that caliber. Ultimately, I stumbled across a Remington Model 725 in .280 Remington, a rifle which I'd lusted after since first seeing the Gun Digest article on the 725s about 40 years ago. So, instead of the 7x57, I have a slightly larger version which satisfies the yen. It now has one small 8-point Pennsylvania buck at 55 yards to its credit, a kill I suspect I could have made with a decent revolver, but sometimes that's the way deer hunting works.
