I have a Rem. Short action laying around that I need to build something on. I have quite a few large caliber rifles from 270 up but not many of the smaller ones. I do have a .223 and a .243 so I have been thinking really hard about a 260. Seems like it would be very handy as a truck gun and tree stand rifle. As I mentioned I have enough larger long range calibers, so I was thinking about a 20 inch barrel. Let's hear what you guys own and prefer, along with favorite bullets. Thanks in advance.

I always wanted to get a 260 ever since it came out. It's a perfect deer round and shoots bullets with excellent SD and BCs. I tried to buy a Kimber Select in 260 but couldn't find one. I bought a 257 Roberts instead. I love the Roberts now, it's great for varmints to deer.

A deep throated fast twist to handle 120grain + bullets in the 250-3000. Try it you'll like it . I do! roger

I have a rem model 7 in .260 and it has a short 20 inch barrel. I would highly recommend it, the .260 is an awesome round and I am never going to get rid of mine. I have been hunting sitka blacktails with it and every one has been one shot DRT.

Welcome Hank . I,m just down the road from you ,mile 115.8 . I really like the 260 and would like one in a little compact stainless Ruger ... With the 110 gr Barnes banded solid it should be great on fur . and with the 120-140 gr TSX good for up to Moose..

I'm a big fan of the M-70 featherweight rifles.

They were not chambered for the .260 so I removed a .243 barrel and installed a .260 chambered tube.

Mine is a 22" Douglas featherweight barrel that duplicated the light contour of Winchester's featherweight. A 20" barrel would also do fine IMO

This is one mighty fine little deer round and rifle.

If you build one, you'll love it as I do

I agree with Roger....120 grain bullets in the .260 work superbly.

Get yourself a couple,
I don't think you'll regret it! I haven't.
The are deadly on whitetails and hogs, I shoot 120 gr ballistic tips out of my kimber and 130 gr accubonds out of my Sako.

GWB

i really like my .260 rem. I have a ruger S.S. synth. M-77 this is a very,very, good deer size game round. 120 gr at 2925. i was using a 7MM-08.. i still take it some, but more my .260

Don't think about it, do it.

This is mine, built on a Sako 75 action.

2900+ FPS with a 120gr bullet. That's 270 performance from a 243 package. The best and most efficient medium bore deer round out there.

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That's 270 performance from a 243 package.

Not quite, my 24" .270 win shoots a 130 to 3200fps, and a 150 to 3100fps

BigDude,
handloads(whats your recipe) or factory.
Chrono'd or box label?
GWB

270 - 150 gr at 3100 - required a minimum of 107 grains of blasto #2

butch,
Would that be a compressed load?

gwb

I bought my 260 because I wanted the rifle more than the caliber. It's a M700 Ti, I really like the rifle but I fell in love with the caliber. Mine shoots 120, 130 & 140 into almost the same group. Likes 130 gr. TSX real well. I think you would like it. I'm shooting 140 gr. Partitions at the moment. I think a 20" 260 would be "just right".

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Originally posted by butchloc:
270 - 150 gr at 3100 - required a minimum of 107 grains of blasto #2

Might polite of you.....I'd have just hoisted the flag!.....you all know which one!

I have a Remington 700 Titanium with a 22" bbl. It is my favorite carry rifle, my daughters favorite, my brothers favorite...everyone is willing to take it out if I'm not usejing it. 100 grain partitions at just over 3200fps is the load of choice and took a 220lb SD mule deer at 85 yards and a 180 pounder at 240 yards both one shot kills. We have only found 1 bullet so far in six deer and that was the big boy. The deer was quartering slightly away and the bullet went through to the far shoulder, deflected off of the heavier leg bone straight up and was in the hide at the top of the shoulder. the buck dropped straight to the ground.
It is easy to load for, cheap to buy brass for, and really fun to shoot.

Since you've already got one varmint gun --the .223-- get rid of the .243 and rebarrel it to a .260. You'll be glad you did. Or use the short action for a .260 and rebarrel the .243 to a 7-08. Or sell the .243. Once you get a really good deer rifle in a short action, it'll just sit in the closet anyway.

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:
Don't think about it, do it.

This is mine, built on a Sako 75 action.

2900+ FPS with a 120gr bullet. That's 270 performance from a 243 package. The best and most efficient medium bore deer round out there.

Well Brian,

you have my vote on having the coolest looking 260 that I have seen on the forum!

Talk about "all business" looking!

Gidday Seafire,

You should see the Sako AII with a Gunworks suppresor that one of my mates has just had made up. Trueflight 23" 1 in 8 twist barrel that sounds like a 22 mag when it goes off and groups .5" at 100 with 129 hornandys. Very classic and he has taken Reds, Fallow, Chamois and Tahr so far with it.

Pure gun porn I tell you


Happy Hunting

Hamish

Well Hamish, you boys overseas get to have some neat looking firearms. We have freedom of what we purchase for firearms in the USA, but the Feds really freak out when someone mounts a surpressor on something...

I have a 260 barrel I need to get mounted on a Model 70 action

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Originally posted by BigDude:

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That's 270 performance from a 243 package.

Not quite, my 24" .270 win shoots a 130 to 3200fps, and a 150 to 3100fps

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Originally posted by vapodog:

Might polite of you.....I'd have just hoisted the flag!.....you all know which one!

Could happen! I once worked up a load for my 25/06,with an 87 gr nosler BT that got,IIRC about 3700 fps,way above what should have been possible,all with no pressure signs I could see.The more powder I put in ,the more accurate it got.
The problem came when I tried to reload the cases.The new primers just fell out!
Way overload!

Another reason why I like having my own range.

I'd do a .243 necked to .224 with a 1:7 or 1:8 Krieger Barrel pushing 80 and 90 gr pills.

Simple answer from me is 'Just do it'... I rebarelled my Tikka 595 to .260, and made it a bit prettier for the sake of it. It shoots Nosler 120BT into .3 MOA and whacks Fallow , roe and foxes like there is no tomorrow.



It is threaded for a moderator, but so far I haven't bothered with it , as it would spoil the balance of the rifle for woodland stalking in the south of England.

T260

Standard .260 Rem is a fantastic ctg. as-is, however it can be made significantly better for long range shooting.

If the action will allow chambering a 6.5 on a 7mm mauser case, running the .260Rem. reamer in so it will chamber the 57mm. case necked down to .264, you'll have 60gr. capacity that will drive 120gr. at 3,308fps 24" bl. I called it the .260CLC- Carol's Little Ctg.(my daughter)

The best load was something like 52gr. Re#19. That needs to be worked to from about a .260 Rem max load with the same powder. The velocity is only 25fps slower than my .264WinMag would do with 85gr. of H870 and had no effect on the brass at all. 15 firings and primer pockets as tight as new brass. For fireforming, all that needs be done, is load a max .260 Rem load that headspaces "0" before firing. Neck 7mm or 8mm Mauser brass only as much as needed for a mild crush-fit of the bolt.
It is literally a 6.5x57IMP with a 20 degree shoulder.

You'll be very happy with a .260, and it won't be long before it's a lot more than a treestand rifle. I came into mine almost by accident — I was looking for a used .243 for my daughter & found a Model 7 youth in .260 for a fair price. She got it for her 10th birthday & took 2 deer with it before she turned 11. I've become a fan of the balance between enough power without much recoil in a compact rifle. I'm not a fan of THIS rifle, as the accuracy, or lack thereof, is disappointing.

I believe you can get an HDR (Homeland Defense Rifle....the new term for Black Rifle or AR-15) in .260 now as well! Would be a neat combination

Gidday Buglemintoday,

That Homeland Defence Rifle in 260 would be the perfect medicine for those Texas feral hogs.

I have seen them night shooting them on Youtube and I always thought a 260 on a AR platform would be the ducksnuts for them. You would clean up a mob in double quicktime. Especially with a suppressor on the end. They wouldn't know what the hell was going on.

Ah I'm dreaming again. Oh well....

Happy Hunting

Hamish

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Originally posted by BigDude:

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That's 270 performance from a 243 package.

Not quite, my 24" .270 win shoots a 130 to 3200fps, and a 150 to 3100fps

Handloads, the 130gr velocity I can get with several powders, all listed in manuals under max charges. RL-22, H-450, Accurate-3100. Go to the Accurate reload manual, and you can see a load exceeding 3200 in a 270

http://accuratearms.com/data/A...20v3.3%20version.pdf

I have a couple of 260s and love them both. Fantasic deer/hog killer. I have always wanted to build one on an exact copy of a Remington LTR with a 20" bbl. I think it would be the perfect Texas everything rifle.

Hornady factory ammo in 270 win 130 gr 3200fps

http://www.hornady.com/store/2...r-SST-Superformance/

I bought my first 260 Rem about 1-1/2 years ago for my 18 yr old daughter. I liked it so much, I bought one for me. Their both Rem 700 CDL SF Limiteds. I took mine and had the X-Pro trigger taken to 2 lbs, free float the barrel, glass & pillar bed, touch up the crown and wa-lah! I've got about 15 different bullet/powder combinations that run MOA or better. It really likes H4350, H4831, Rel 19 and even Varget with the 120 Speer Hot Core. My favorite bullet for this thing is the Barnes 120 gr TTSX.

Now, I'm running a Surgeon short 591 action and a Krieger 1:8.5 barrel in 6.5x47 Lapua. OMG!!!! What a rifle. It's nice not to have to worry about seating depth for 140's in the mag. 6.5x47 Lapua....something to think about!

Alan

Is it legal to marry a rifle? I would like to test the legal system on this one...

I have the Remington 700 Special Edition...and it is a dream shooter, outstanding wind master and excellent for longer range shots on Predators. I love the Barnes 110 banded solids.

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:
Don't think about it, do it.

This is mine, built on a Sako 75 action.

2900+ FPS with a 120gr bullet. That's 270 performance from a 243 package. The best and most efficient medium bore deer round out there.

i finally got a 260 will try varget and 4064 with 100 grain ttsx's first... all i could find was remingotn brass

Patriot, Somewhere between 41.0 and 43.0 grains of Varget and the 100 grain pills is probably all the load testing you'll need! VARGET and the 308 based cases is a "certain to find the accuracy" combo. GHD

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Originally posted by PATRIOT76:
i finally got a 260 will try varget and 4064 with 100 grain ttsx's first... all i could find was remingotn brass

I am a 4064 guy for the 100 grainers...

work up to a max load of 43.5 grains..large rifle primer...

it will run with a 25/06 with a 100 grainer...

my Rugers chrono at 3350 fps..

my Rem VLS and my Model 70 both with 26inch barrels are chrono'ing at 3450 fps with that bullet..

Charlie above is always a good source of info..
but all of my 260s shoot Varget quite well... but 4064 even better...( Sorry Charlie!)

If your a handloader consider the 260 AI. 130 grains bullets @ 3000+ is easy.