260 Remington

I love the 260. My wife shoots the 125 partition now although hers has accounted for a lot of game with 120 gr corelocks when you could get them. I favour the 130 accubonds. Powder is IMR4831 and rl19 respectively but pretty much anything in that burning range works.
 
The 260 is a great cartridge and if you have one the only issue you will have is finding a steady supply of factory ammunition. If you find some ammo, buy it--buy it all! I have had several over the years and like others here have enjoyed its mild mannered shooting attributes, it is easy to reload, easy to shoot, and takes game well-just put the right bullet in the right spot. Good luck!
 
nof60 said:
Bill Leeper built me a .260 Rem AI on a Win 70 reciever. Great gun. Perfect for deer. Unless you are shooting very high BC match grade bullets past 500 m the .260 is superior to the creedmoor. Faster and flatter. Regular hunting bullets like berger vld hunting or nosler partitions advantage totally goes to the .260. Shooting paper past 500 with high BC match grade advantage goes to the Creedmoor. Hornady and ruger did a far better job of marketing than Rem.
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^ this. I have a Montana ASR in .260 which will do anything needed in deer season. Also have an Insite Arms M70 in 6.5 CM that will take deer but it more of stand rifle due to weight. Definitely a successful marketing job!
 
I am on my second 260 Rem target rifle.

Berger 140 gn Hybrids to 1000+ yards for strict competition, 136L gn Lapua to 540 yards and for everything else, steel etc.

I have better result with RL-22 over H4350 in this application.
 
I have a 20" barreled 260, I mostly shoot lighter bullets like 123 amax. It's in a mdt lss makes a great do anything gun. I've shot it out to 1000 yards with decend success. I really like the caliber
 
I have always liked the 260 and shot a few deer with mine. I throat mine long so I could use 160gr Sierras (no longer made) and they worked great. I kind of like the Creedmoor a bit better but the 260 will produce slightly higher velocities if all else is equal. I have built good shooting long range rifle in both chamberings as well as the 6.5x55 and 6.5/284. By the way, when a 140 grain bullet is started out between 2700 and 2800 fps, which all of these cartridges do, it will perform exactly the same regardless of the markings on the barrel. Everybody knows this but many seem to forget it from time to time.
 
Target shooting = Creedmoor. That's what it was designed for. Deer hunting, flip a coin. 260 is great but now poor availability better relegate is to us folks who have a prior investment in that cartridge.
 
I own both a 260 and 6.5 creed. My 260 is a heavy rifle with a 26” barrel on while the 6.5 is mid weight hunting rifle with a 25” barrel. They are pretty much the same but the creed fits a true short action better. I’ve been shooting h-4831 and 139gr lapua since day one in my 260. They shoot well for paper and steel at as far as you can shoot. I shot 1 mule deer doe with that combo at 150 yards and worked perfectly fine. The 139 lapua is a bit hard on coyote fur so I did load the Barnes 120tsx for shooting coyotes.

I really like the 260/6.5 as they are east to shoot and shoot well
 
Doesn't make much sense to go with the .260 instead of the Creed these days, unless you are already heavily invested in the .260 with ammunition and/or brass.
 
I have owned three single shot match rifles in .260 and they were amazing shooters out too 1K, as good as the 6.5Creedmooor I have now.
These are all single shot match rifles however.
I also have a highwall That Ron Smith rebarreled for me in 260 and that is also an amazing hunting weight rifle and supper accurate out to 500 meters.
If you are a hand loader, pick one- if you shoot only factory ammo, take the creedmoor.
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If I was in the same position today as I was 17 years ago when I was 14 looking for my first rifle to hunt everything from fox/coyote/groundhogs to moose, I may have gone the route of the 6.5cm over the 260 based solely on factory ammo availability today. But then again, I likely wouldn't have spent so much time as a youngster learning how to reload like I did with the 260 Rem, using 85gr Sierra's and 95 gr VMax's for varmints, 120gr Barnes x bullets for wolves conserving pelts, 125 partitions and 130 AB's for deer, moose and bear, the 260 Rem offered the diverse applications I sought with little recoil in an light mountain rifle, at the time with handloads. As does the 6.5cm now, just late to the party. I'll be sticking with the 260, and enjoy the new powders/bullet availabilities the 6.5cm has brought with it's popularity to the shooting/reloading world.

I must have gotten lucky, as in my 700 mtn. rifle, I can load 130gr accubonds touching the lands with 2.826 COAL still fitting in my short action magazine with a hair to spare, must have been a mixup with the throat length in the factory, but im not complaining about it thats forsure, 0.017 off the lands is the meat stacker for my factory 1:9 twist barrell and AB's.
Op, you have a good Cal choice to enjoy,
 
captonion said:
Not so much, the 260 is every bit as accurate as the Creed with better barrel life and about 100fps advantage.
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How does the 260 have better barrel life, with more powder? And supposedly 100 fps more velocity? (despite case capacity being only 4% more?)
 
Started loosing velocity with the creed @ 1800 rounds, consistent with the 260 @ 2200. Both douglas air gauge match barrels. Velocities are 60-90fps faster in the 260, not quite 100 but close.
 
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