When Remington re-introduced the 260 with an 8 twist I had to try one. It shot pretty well as purchased and quite well with a Bell and Carlson Medalist installed. Eventually I ended up with four of them and now, having armed family and friends, I had none of them. So I picked up one of this years production and actually glass bedded it to an H-S Precision, mounted a Leupold VX-3 in Dual Dovetail bases and rings and wow. WOW! I started break in and got almost no copper fouling so I started development with 125 Partitions, 120 TSXs, and 120 grain B-Tips. Both 120s shot very well with the TSXs at .7" for 5 the B-tips just under an inch for 5 and the Partitions pushed by H Superperformance and a WLR primer put 5 holes in a .37" group. I thought the stars must have aligned for a brief moment and drawn my bullets together so I loaded more of the same and tried again. Two five shot groups just over .5" From a standard procuction Remington barreled action. I believe I may keep this one for myself.

I have one and I won't get rid of it. It's a shooter and I only paid $500 for it!

I just dropped it in a McMillan Edge stock that I picked up for $325 and it's a damn fine rifle. I am in it for under $900 all said and done and I couldn't be happier

Gee golly, I've got a stock box gun that is in the original stock, original everything with just a tad of bedding and trigger tuning and it shoots sub moa.
People always act surprised when they find that a stock Remington will shoot little bitty groups with a decent nut on the trigger but it's more the norm than unusual.

What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

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Originally posted by bartsche:
What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

AMEN Roger! Those were the days.

Not all that long ago you went to Remington for a rifle with better than average accuracy...and a movie cost 10 cents, a pack of camels was 20 and minute of deer was great. You also didn't have to put in 7 years for a bull tag, permission was granted with an introduction and the offer of a hind quarter and your truck had a motor you could work on yourself. Things have changed. And then again they haven't. Most hunters don't visit this site, and still get rifles for half a weeks wages and are tickled to shoot a couple of critters out of the same box of Super X soft points they have been shooting out of for three years. Some people chase women, some whiskey with beer, and some, tiny groups. At any rate, I was pretty impressed with the factory barrel. I appologize for implying Remingtons rifles as of late aren't what they ought to be, even if they haven't been.

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Originally posted by bartsche:
What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

It's called inflation, grandpa.

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Originally posted by scottfromdallas:

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Originally posted by bartsche:
What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

It's called inflation, grandpa.

And than some. It was called large game population, fewer hunters , mucho land to hunt on at no cost and less than 20 miles to drive most of the time. Must admit, however, when I got to where I was going I had to ride a horse in a little bit farther. roger

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Originally posted by bartsche:
What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

Back in them days, you didn't have a slick thumbole sporter custom chambered in .260 R Bar at half the weight and superior trajectory to play with.......

I miss the old days too.....but today ain't all that bad.

Finally got back to the gravel pit with 3 new bullets.
130 grain Sierra HPBT Gameking
130 grain Berger VLD Hunting
130 grain Nosler Accubond
I was using IMR 4350, Remington cases, and WLR primers.
All three were very accurate with the Bergers barely beating the Sierras in almost identical spreads just under and just over .9" outside to outside for 5 shots. The Accubonds were at 1.1 with the wind just starting to get noticeable. I am really anxious to see if the 130 Gamekings perform as well on game as their HP brothers in other calibers.

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Originally posted by vapodog:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by bartsche:
What ever happened to the time you could go to Gibson's pull a Mod.98, 8 x 57 out of a barrel pay $32.00 for it , go home and make a bunch of cases from Mil. 06 bras, Load up some 185 grain bullets with surplus 4895, go to the back side of Grand Mesa and take two deer and an Elk with the rifle as purchased ? I guess money was just a bit harder to come by back than. roger

Back in them days, you didn't have a slick thumbole sporter custom chambered in .260 R Bar at half the weight and superior trajectory to play with......./QUOTE]

U R rite! I did , however, have my trusty ole Carcano and unlike today capable of hanging out in the mountains . Some day some one will wind up with the R-BAR and maybe down a deer or elk.This old body ain't going to get it done! roger

So I finally picked up the duck decoys for a couple of days and made it to the deer woods. The little 260 did well. Shooting 130 grain Sierra HPBT Gamekings at about 2825 I punched a hole in a little buck yesterday afternoon at 155 yards. Quartering slightly to, I hit him 2" posterior of the crease and had a middle ribs exit. The young fella ran for a six count and crashed into the prickly ash dead as a stone. Bullet performance was exceptional with a nice 3" wound channel and silver dollar exit. I love it when 27 cent bullets are a perfect solution.

Two different bullets 1 powder charge. 41.4 gr IMR 4350. WLR primer. Nes Lapua brass. 140 gr Nosler CC upper group. 144gr Lapua FMJBT center group. Not sure the velocity. But think is around 2700 fps.
Rifle is a friends Model 700 .SS 24" factory barrel
Temp was between 5-10°F. About a foot of snow on the ground. Range 100 yards

The 2 flyers were caused from the 5 lb trigger pull. My 6.5 Creedmoor has a 23-28 oz trigger. The Remington's trigger ain't nothing to write home about. He needs to put a Shilen on it.
Scope is my 10-42 SWFA SS Classic Mil Dot.
I was sighting it in.
Shot the upper CC group. Left 4 clicks down 10 . Printed the final ( centered group) with the 144 gr Lapua FMJBT bullets

There are 4 bullets in the centered group.
With a good trigger, a bipod and a toe bag. This rifle will shoot in the low. 2s . . Not any better than my Ruger 6.5 Creedmoor. But still. It is a good shooter.