26 Nosler or 6.5x300 Weatherby.

todbartell said:
I have some experience with the 26 Nosler in a few different rifles. A very short list of suitable powders for this overbore cartridge. Retumbo max loads only fill the case around 90% full, H1000 even less.

Throat erosion will keep you adjusting the load often enough to stay in a sweet spot that it will likely become a frustrating chore. These days with excellent range finders and turrets/reticles for drop compensation, ballistic programs etc - uber fast muzzle velocity isn't as important to long range shooting as it used to be. I like the 6.5 PRC case size myself for the bigger end of the 6.5 caliber spectrum. Extremely accurate and it has some serious potential downrange with the right loads

I'd grab a 28 Nosler every time over a 26 Nosler for long range shooting
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Huge overbores aren’t meant to be shot often or much, get your load and quit and just hunt. If your into tinkering with loads these aren’t for you.

SCG.
 
Southcountryguy said:
Huge overbores aren’t meant to be shot often or much, get your load and quit and just hunt. If your into tinkering with loads these aren’t for you.

SCG.
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alright, so a long range cartridge can't be used for practice for shooting long range? Seems counter productive
 
buckhunter49 said:
Thanks
I've been down the PRC train before. Liked it but finding ammo was and still is a very scarce endeavor. Couldn't find brass so had a limited amount of factory ammo only from Hornady.
Seems to be I can find ammo and brass for these 2. Also the 264 Win Mag is also a consideration.
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I have a 264, my third. Excellent caliber, suffers from the same problems the others have, here today/gone tomorrow barrel life. Would be hoping your using it for deer/moose as.stated, hunting rifle would last for.years and years. Range.toy, not so much.

Of the four, what would be the most available, actual headstamped, brass. Is that brass proprietary, nosebleed expensive, and how many firings.

Would bet the 6.5-300 wea is the fastest, followed by the Nosler, prc and win mag are ballistic clones.
 
nowarningshot said:
I have a 264, my third. Excellent caliber, suffers from the same problems the others have, here today/gone tomorrow barrel life. Would be hoping your using it for deer/moose as.stated, hunting rifle would last for.years and years. Range.toy, not so much.

Of the four, what would be the most available, actual headstamped, brass. Is that brass proprietary, nosebleed expensive, and how many firings.

Would bet the 6.5-300 wea is the fastest, followed by the Nosler, prc and win mag are ballistic clones.
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I have virtually no experience with these uber fast small bores. Just rooting through reloading manuals - so pressure tested data, I presume. Hard to find a significant difference among the choices - unlike others, I doubt that 150 fps more or less makes difference, for much, once when past 3300 fps or so. Not like slower one going to bounce off target? I suspect is about "bragging rights", not so much about performance - marketing and sales leading the charge, not actual, demonstrable performance.

However, OP - buy what you want. Buy 200 brass. Take care of them - is likely once those brass worn out, need to be discarded despite annealing, etc., then so is that barrel. In mean time, who cares what is being sold, what is popular? Not like you are buying the rifle every year? Maybe a barrel every couple years, but easy enough to get made. By which time will be another super duper cartridge that is all the rage.

I am likely a fudd. I hunt deer with 7x57. My "big" 7mm is a 7x61 S&H. I used to hunt deer with a 308 Win - I used it to take my first elk. Later elk were taken with my 338 Win Mag. I own a couple target type long range 7.62 NATO rifles - loading with Sierra PALMA 155 grain #2165 - but those two rifles have aperture sights - no scopes. I think everyone should own and use a 30-06. My "big" 30 caliber is a 308 Norma Mag. I think my 300 Win Mag and 300 Weatherby are pretty "big". I do own a 9.3x62 that I take when hunting in mountains. And I do own a 458 Win Mag with no earthly reason for it to be here, except that I wanted to try one, to know what all the fuss was about.
 
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I think in 6.5 cal the most you need is a 6.5-06, seems perfect to me, I plan on building one in the spring.
 
todbartell said:
So if a guy can shoot well with a 22LR or a 308, he can just grab the 26 Nosler and dial the turret to what the chart says and let fly? Cool
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Now your just trying to be retarded. Of course you do range distance testing. It’s just not the gun you use as a daily shooter. They aren’t for that or, as you stated, throat erosion is an issue. If you need to put a couple thousand rounds down the pipe to be able to shoot a particular rifle then over bores may not be for you either.
 
Southcountryguy said:
Now your just trying to be retarded. Of course you do range distance testing. It’s just not the gun you use as a daily shooter. They aren’t for that or, as you stated, throat erosion is an issue. If you need to put a couple thousand rounds down the pipe to be able to shoot a particular rifle then over bores may not be for you either.
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^^^this^^^
A couple shots a year to confirm zero and its good to go - if your going to dive into reloading to find the perfect combination you will probably wear out the throat doing so - factory ammo is your friend - sight it in per factory recommendations and your good to go. That's what I will be doing with my 240wby (after recommended break in procedure) ammo price will not be an issue with this caliber.
 
I would buy the cartridge that has the better quality components available.
Quality Comp. Dies, a good bushing die set and seater go a long way it ya ask me..
Uniform brass speaks for its self..

Out of the 2 your picking O.P. I would say 26Nos.

As far as barrel burner goes,,, as a hunting Rig ,
wear wont be bad.
Close to 450 rounds threw my 257 BEE, throat and lands still look good and new.
 
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