26 Nosler ?

c-fbmi said:
Well there goes the easy brass from 300 WM, however I do have 50 7mm Dakota............Man a guy would have to move a lot of brass to make them from the RUM case, that would be a real PITA. Wonder who they've contracted to make their brass.......R-P....Fed....maybe Norma. You can sure as heII bet it won't be cheap..........
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The only price I've seen so far is $3 a piece.
 
bearkilr said:
I'd be willing to bet it's Norma, that's who makes their other brass.
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Maybe some but certainly not all..........The 300 Wby I bought looked, smelled and acted just like R-P. It even weighed the same as R-P only more consistent.............sooooo, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.........................
 
c-fbmi said:
Maybe some but certainly not all..........The 300 Wby I bought looked, smelled and acted just like R-P. It even weighed the same as R-P only more consistent.............sooooo, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.........................
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That's strange, considering Weatherby ammo and brass is also made by Norma. Any of the Nosler brass I've used and looked at sure has that unique Norma color, if you know what I mean.
 
It will likely last just as long as most folks 7 mags and positions300's. So who here has actually ever taken a rifle to burned out barrel status?
Ive actualy never met anyone with a burnt .264 WM barrel. Mythical beasts......
Lets allow the cartridge to die on real merits instead of presumptions and fairy tales.

And RP makes Noslers 300 Weatherby, 35 whelen, 350 Rem Mag and 280 Rem brass for sure. The .6.5-284, 257 Weatherby and 280 AI brass Re the only ones ive seen identifiable as Norma. I would assune there are others though....
 
rem338win said:
So who here has actually ever taken a rifle to burned out barrel status?
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I have shot out a dozen or so over the years. The shortest life was my .25 Gibbs, 700rnds @4000fps and it was toast (made for beautiful pink mist society ground hog shooting though), throat was about 3/4" long and fire checking almost all the way down the barrel
 
Hey there R338..........even though we haven't met F2F I have shot out 2 different 243s, but not in no 500 or 1000 rds......first one was well over 10,000 rounds and I cut the barrel off and you could drop a hornet case right in where the leade used to be, that was a 700 BDL and the second was a little Ruger 77 RSI which I never bothered to track number of rounds but it was for sure between 5-10,000. I do love shooting my 243s and now I have 5 just so I probably won't shoot out any more.
Also now that I'm in the barrel making business...............who cares !!! My biggest concern with the 26 Nos would be the cost of brass.........at the purported 3 bucks a pop a guy would never accumulate enough brass to burn the barrel out, you be at the loading bench all the time.
 
c-fbmi said:
My biggest concern with the 26 Nos would be the cost of brass.........at the purported 3 bucks a pop a guy would never accumulate enough brass to burn the barrel out, you be at the loading bench all the time.
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Looks like the brass will be closer to $4 a piece in Canada, I ordered 4 boxes (100) which if barrel life is as bad as everyone is claiming should last for the entire first barrel. I wish it was easier to form from the basic ultra mag case, it is moving a fair bit of brass to make a 26 casing. The 338 rum maybe the best to start from for forming.
 
I could see necking it up to 7mm, just to use a standard length cartridge in a magnum length mag box. That would open up some options for reaching or chasing the lands while being more or less an STW in case capacity. I don't see it as great success as a 6.5 since the 6.5 STW didn't amount to much.
 
LongBomber said:
Looks like the brass will be closer to $4 a piece in Canada, I ordered 4 boxes (100) which if barrel life is as bad as everyone is claiming should last for the entire first barrel. I wish it was easier to form from the basic ultra mag case, it is moving a fair bit of brass to make a 26 casing. The 338 rum maybe the best to start from for forming.
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OUCH.....OUCH....OUCH...I just bought 100 rounds of brass for my .470 NE that didn't cost me anywhere near that much.............course it don't say Nosler on it...;)

Sounds to me like it's going to be a while until you can sit comfortably........;)
 
c-fbmi said:
OUCH.....OUCH....OUCH...I just bought 100 rounds of brass for my .470 NE that didn't cost me anywhere near that much.............course it don't say Nosler on it...;)

Sounds to me like it's going to be a while until you can sit comfortably........;)
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It seems it takes serious dollars to play these days. The last 300 rum nosler brass I bought was $75 for 50, now its almost $100 for 25. Pricing themselves out of the market.
 
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