260 mountain rifle

I've had two, the first an LSS and the second the walnut blued version. The first was stupidly accurate, the second pretty accurate. I hunted deer with both using 125 gr partitions at about 2900 fps over H4350 powder.

Great combination.
 
I hate to say this because I'm saving my pennies for one, but LeBaron has the Walnut/Blued in 260 on sale for about $750. smokin deal if you ask me
 
I've owned two, but the 2nd one was a donor for a custom project and I only shot it about 20 times. My first ever Rem 700 was a LSS mtn in 260, it shot great. No complaints at all
 
I've taken two animals with the 260 cartridge from my 700.
One Whitetail Buck and one Muley Buck !
Niether of them complained about it at all;)
 
I've never shot a Remington Mountain Rifle but I've handled a couple. The last one was a 7x57 Mauser at the Eganville gunshow. The calibre made it extra interesting to me. In the end I passed over it because it felt too light for good offhand shooting. How do people find them in actual use. Do they settle down better than one might expect? I loved the looks, weight and chambering, I just wasn't so sure I'd be able to shoot it as well as a standard 700 BDL.
 
Chuck said:
I've never shot a Remington Mountain Rifle but I've handled a couple. The last one was a 7x57 Mauser at the Eganville gunshow. The calibre made it extra interesting to me. In the end I passed over it because it felt too light for good offhand shooting. How do people find them in actual use. Do they settle down better than one might expect? I loved the looks, weight and chambering, I just wasn't so sure I'd be able to shoot it as well as a standard 700 BDL.
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It's funny you mentioned the offhand shooting thing about the lightweight rifle. The two best guns I've ever owned for offhand shooting at game for me were the mountain rifle and a kimber 308 that was even lighter. Both just jumped to my shoulder, when I got on hair down went the deer, I noticed the lightweight thing more when shooting them from a rest.
 
Chuck said:
I've never shot a Remington Mountain Rifle but I've handled a couple. The last one was a 7x57 Mauser at the Eganville gunshow. The calibre made it extra interesting to me. In the end I passed over it because it felt too light for good offhand shooting. How do people find them in actual use. Do they settle down better than one might expect? I loved the looks, weight and chambering, I just wasn't so sure I'd be able to shoot it as well as a standard 700 BDL.
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Just out of curiosity , How can a rifle be "too light" for "good offhand shooting"?
 
That's kind of how I've generally found things. I'm sure that I do my best offhand shooting with my Ruger #1V. It has a moderately heavy barrel and a short falling block action. The result is that it feels like it hangs on target better than anything else that I own. However, the experience of martinbns makes me think I should keep an open mind about mountain rifles and give one I try.
 
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