26 Nosler ?
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A Ruger should hold 3+1. My .375 Ruger does, and if this is based off the same case it will obviously be the same.
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Seems like a potentially very interesting cartridge.
I could see one in my future, when rifle and component costs drop to be more comparable with other, standard magnums.
I could see one in my future, when rifle and component costs drop to be more comparable with other, standard magnums.
If you wanted to make use of 140's I'd go no lower than at the very least a nine twist. I heard reports from shot that it's an 8 though.
I highly doubt that extreme spread could be kept down enough to make accurate use of the long range capabilities. That's a lot of capacity to even come close with any power to fill up a case with a 140 on top.
I agree, it would appear to be a very interesting cartridge at this time, but I don't see it in my future for a couple reasons.
First my current 6.5 magnum does more than enough to meet my needs, and then there is affordability.
My current gun budget revolves around my old age pension benefits and my ability to find work as a male stripper..... try that when you hit 68 ....
Finally if it is based on a 375 Ruger case that would be a deal breaker for me.
They managed to control ES on the 30-378 in the LR game, so this should look fairly similar.
I doubt you'd be dropping the loads straight from the tube....
If I was in the market for a new rig, this would be considered. I just hate the price of the brass though!
I doubt you'd be dropping the loads straight from the tube....
If I was in the market for a new rig, this would be considered. I just hate the price of the brass though!
As with everything "new from Nosler", there is nothing new about this cartridge other than some high velocity hot air from Oregon.
Ross Seyfried penned a article in the August 2001 Handloader mag, titled Smallbore Extremes. The cartridges in this article are the 22-284 and the 6.5-300 Dakota. The only difference between it and the Nosler is rim diameter . Yawn...
Ross Seyfried penned a article in the August 2001 Handloader mag, titled Smallbore Extremes. The cartridges in this article are the 22-284 and the 6.5-300 Dakota. The only difference between it and the Nosler is rim diameter . Yawn...
I think pretty much everything has been done before - the question is whether a company has the ability and resources to standardize the cartridge and make it available to the masses. The .375 Ruger is a good recent example. It is virtually identical to a cartridge that Ryan Breeding developed in the 80's. Then the short mag craze - I recall a fellow shortening and necking down a .425 W-R and he called it the .30 Warthog or something like that.
Here is a link to an article on the .375 Breeding:
http:// www.rbbigbores.com/uploads/rifle_article.pdf
And the WSMs were also the .348 rimless AI or something along those lines, too.
Yeah, it's all been done, but as you say, most are not "legitimized" 
I've heard that argument about the WSM cartridges (all of them), the RUMs, the SAUMs, the RCM cartridges hell I'd go as far as to say I've heard it for every new cartridge offering right back to the 1960s and the 350 Remington magnum. Surprisingly they are still in production. Personally I would never hunt down the hen's teeth components and tooling to have a 6.5-300 Dakota built, not a chance way too much bother a 300 Dakota would be bad enough. The 26 Nosler does interest me though, it will go on the list of 'might just have one day' cartridges.
That's the thing with most of the wildcats, and why they really don't interest me much anymore. I read Seyfrieds article and it was of course very interesting, but I figured if I ever wanted a fast. 6.5 I would just get a .264 Winchester.
If rather spend the time shooting than tracking down brass an reamers etc.
That's the thing with most of the wildcats, and why they really don't interest me much anymore. I read Seyfrieds article and it was of course very interesting, but I figured if I ever wanted a fast. 6.5 I would just get a .264 Winchester.
If rather spend the time shooting than tracking down brass an reamers etc.
I think most people were a lot more interested in wildcats a decade or two ago, I'd include myself there. New cartridge offerings were pretty stagnant by today's standards through the 70s and 80s. Bolt gun choices were pretty much limited to 300 savage 308, 30-06, 300 mag and maybe 300 Weatherby for instance if 30 cal was your thing. The gun industry seemed to be riding on their past successes and good with that. Wildcatting fit the void for quite a few people.
I think it started to change in the late 90s and especially 2000s. Maybe to a bit of an extreme to some but I applaud all the newer offerings we've been seeing. One thing I think is particularly cool is some calibres have come out of the dust the 6.5/264 as a prime example. It wasn't always easy to find 6.5 bullets for your Swede or your 264 win mag 15 yrs ago. With the advent of the 260 Remington, the Creedmoor and now the Nosler that isn't an issue any more. In fact the first accubond long range bullets to trickle in were..... 6.5 cal bought a box several months ago. No 308 cals available yet. That, I find very interesting.
But I have a donor Savage 114 for a build, so that doesn't help me out too much unless you are willing to give me your Ruger
But I have a donor Savage 114 for a build, so that doesn't help me out too much unless you are willing to give me your Ruger
Your Savage will hold 3 under using the Ruger case but most likely not using the 404 based case, without some magazine mods.
