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Originally posted by South Pender:
Given the current interest in the various 6.5s, the number of excellent hunting bullets of that diameter has increased. This should make the .264 WM of considerable renewed interest. It’s a great open-country hunting cartridge. Mine's a Schultz & Larsen M65DL, and it's easy to load for and will easily outperform the current darling 6.5 PRC. It’s only sins are having a belt (not that this fact in any way really constitutes a flaw) and is not a “short” cartridge, like the Creedmoor and PRC, which work with shorter actions. The short-action craze too is, in my opinion, more marketing bumf than based on any real field advantage.

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
I've killed a lot of hogs with a .264 -- all of them with a Nosler Partition 140. The last one I took with it was a 250-pounder at 330 yards which was DRT with a single shot.

In years past it was difficult to find a powder slow enough for the .264. Now that a number of powders with burning rates appropriate to optimize the .264 are available on the market it seems odd that interest in the round has waned. I suppose the "ultravelocity" guys are more enthralled with newer rounds.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I always thought it was a good round; but the 7mm Rem Mag 3 years later killed demand for it.
I remember it well when it happened; 1962.
And, finally, a fellow short action hater! You will get hate mail for that one. I do....

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Originally posted by LHeym500:

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I always thought it was a good round; but the 7mm Rem Mag 3 years later killed demand for it.
I remember it well when it happened; 1962.
And, finally, a fellow short action hater! You will get hate mail for that one. I do....

I have little time for short actions.

Still waiting on my Talley rings snd mounts while we suffer through a blizzard. A blizzard here is anything over 1cm of snow.