Am infatuated with the .260 Remington....Also have a son starting gunsmith school.....Also have a 96 Swedish action lying on the shelf, which I would donate for his project rifle.
Your opinions please?? Grant.

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Your opinions please?? Grant.

build a 6.5 X 55......put the .260 project off until you get a better action

The 6,5x55 is of course the perfect round, but there is no reason why the 260 would not work splendid.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Your opinions please?? Grant.

build a 6.5 X 55......put the .260 project off until you get a better action

What about the .260 in a 24/47 action?

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Your opinions please?? Grant.

build a 6.5 X 55......put the .260 project off until you get a better action

I second that motion..........

I'd not be opting to touch off a 260 with anything but a modern bolt gun.

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Originally posted by GunCat:

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Your opinions please?? Grant.

build a 6.5 X 55......put the .260 project off until you get a better action

What about the .260 in a 24/47 action?

The 24/47 is IMO fine with the .308 family of cartridges and further IMO re heat treating is optional with this action! (I wouldn't)

You may have to do a wee bit of rail work but then you did say it was a gunsmithing school project.....sounds like a great way to get started!

What I would build in a swede action, provided that you already HAVE a 6.5x55 is either a 6mmRem or a 257Roberts
And mabey just mabey a 7x57. These rounds will feed without any issues in a '96 action.

Frankly I'd be hesitant to build anything in the "308family"
into a 96 action, but I'll temper that by saying it matters if you are talking about a "True" 96 action, a Mauser Obendorf
(affectionatly known to swede lovers as "Obie") or a Carl Gustav ("CG") OR a 1938-43 production Husqvarna which are strongly aleged to have better Metalurgy and thus strength.

I'd build a sporter on a "Husky" with no hesitation.
On an Obie or a CG? Nope.

If I developed a real woodie for having a 260Rem I'd get a Remington 700.

AD

If the Swedes sell the 96 in 270 at 65kpsi average that would proof at 84.5 kpsi ~ 91 kpsi, then I think I can shoot the slightly smaller case head 260 at 60 kpsi.

Of course, that is the kind of "chambered for this, then can be chambered for that" thinking I am always making fun of.

The calculations and testing would be better. I have always wanted to shoot 50BMG with a 96 to make up for Ackley not testing it*, but the case is larger in diameter than the bolt bore.

If any one has a 260 Rem that would like to race my 96 Swede over the chrono title for title, I am ready.

I have a 260, and no way can it make the power that my 96 makes with the 6.5x55 and hot handloads.


*I am sitting on more overload experimental data than Ackley ever published, as are some others.

If one is going to all the trouble to build a custom rifle then use the best materials available so that you can sell the gun at a premium price..The M-96 is not the action to build a good rifle on, it is akin to building a beautiful rifle and using a cheap piece of wood on it...all that work and what have you got?

It breaks my heart to see a Swedish Mauser reduced to anything but what it was intented.

Let that Swede action rest in peace !

I hate seeing sporterized Swedish Mausers. I passed on purchasing 5 of them this week at an auction. All sold for about $50 each.

Just my two cents from a man that loves a good Swedish Mauser.

Boarman.......I didn't make myself very clear. I have just the action. I got it in a trade. Someone had already removed the barrel, (and thus the serial number,) and had already drilled scope mount holes in that nice, old Carl Gustav crest. They also installed a new Timney trigger, which is worth more than what I have in the action itself. By the way, I would buy all the bubbaed Swedes I could find, if they were going for 50 bucks apiece. Up here in Minnesota, home-sporterized Swedes are going for at least 200 bucks each, at auction....
Anyway, as I stated in my original post; this will be a donor action for my 23 year-old who is going to attend gunsmith school. The college said he should bring an action as a basis for building a rifle during the course.
Just had a brainstorm! We have a 54 Winchester in 30 WCF, that we love to shoot, and hunt with. Maybe as a challenge to the budding gunsmith, (and his teachers,) he should attempt to make that Swede feed rimmed cartridges...
I can see it now........A sweet little Husky sporter in 30-30....... Grant.