I have checked around where I live and ammo for the .260 Remington is almost non-exsistant. I can find way more for the old 6.5 Swede. What gives with the .260 Remington? Lawdog

this is a great cartridge it used to be a wildcat til remington made it a proprietory cartridge in i think 1996 or1997. the .260 never caught on with the public. if you own one and want a steady supply of ammo, will have to handload for it. it is quite easy to load for. run .243win brass through a .260rem sizing die, measure the brass you may have to trim some to length after the sizing process, follow normal reloading procedures.

if you do not own .260 and do not handload and want a 6.5 type rifle buy the swede. ammo is more readily available.

i really lilke the 6.5's thus my moniker

jmo

arky65

The .260 with a 140 or 139 match bullet is a stellar performer. I use one of Saeeds VV N165 loads with F210 and the 139 Lapua and get excellent results. I generally use .260 brass made by Remington, which is available in bulk here locally.



Factory rounds are basically 100 varmint and 140 hunting rounds with bullets that must have been designed for the .264 Winchester Magnum. A much better round when hand loaded. Incidentally for a medium range varmint load I use the 100 grain Sierra Varmint and H4895, another one of Saeed's really great loads!



D.

i put a custom shilen barrel on my 260 to get away from the pencil barrel and it will shoot anything. again not nuch factory available. i have to load for it. likes 100 grain hornadys and 140 interlocks. 95 grain v-max and 85 grain sierras shoot great. all handloaded though. these guys are right, a great gun if you hand load.

The 6.8 Remington may take off as a minimum cartridge as it's US military. As to the 260 there is already so much overlap that it got lost.