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Hi guys! I am asking this for a friend who is building a .260 on a Remington 700 action; is there any suppliers of brass in Canada that he could purchase from? I know nothing of the caliber myself, just thought this might be the place to ask if anyone knows. Thanks for any and all input:D Thank You!
 
Brass can be ordered through any dealer.
Epp's is a good place to start, if you're looking for standard, factory brass.
I use Lapua .243Win. brass, and neck it up to .260.
In my experience, it is higher quality, with more consistencey from case to case, than standard .260Rem brass.
The Lapua brass is more expensive, but worth it...
Lapua also offers very high quality bullets..
Hirsch Precision is a good source for Lapua products...also carries the full line of Nightforce scopes.
 
Ive used necked up 243 brass, and R-P 260 Rem brass, both work for hunting loads. I have some Nosler 260 brass on order...for a long time, we'll see how good it is someday
 
Please forgive me as I don't know hardly anything about this but do you just run the .243 brass, and /or the 7-08 through a .260 resizing die to reshape the case?
 
P9shooter said:
Please forgive me as I don't know hardly anything about this but do you just run the .243 brass, and /or the 7-08 through a .260 resizing die to reshape the case?
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Yes, with adequate amounts of lubrication, perferably Imperial brand. You may have to ream and trim the necks after you've re-sized the cases. If you truly aren't comfortable trying this out then just buy .260 Rem. Remington brand cases. They're good to go from the very start for starting out. If you're going to shoot in competitions, then then the brass could use the usual match prep treatment, however, you don't appear to be even remotely at this stage yet. No point making life difficult for yourself.
 
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P9shooter said:
Please forgive me as I don't know hardly anything about this but do you just run the .243 brass, and /or the 7-08 through a .260 resizing die to reshape the case?
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Use 243 Lapua brass (The very best there is) and purchase yourself a 6.5mm expander mandrel. It is essentially a tapered round post that sits in your press and it is used to open up the brass neck. Sinclair International sells them for sure. By only taking it from 6 - 6.5mm you will not need to trim anything. Run it through there and you're done!
 
Thanks for the replies guys, I am just asking this for my friend. I wasn't sure; I thought there might be a special die you used initially to resize the necks of the cases, just wasn't sure, in my mind I was thinking what Obtunded said about the mandrel. My friend is pretty capable and knowledgeable, and this would be a good alternative because I believe he has a good supply of .243 and 7-08 brass. The expander mandrel sounds like the ticket. Thanks again, I appreciate it!
 
I agree that buying Rem 260 brass would be the easiest. If it is not available, then you could buy Winchester 7-08 and size is down in one easy pass to 260 Rem. I say Winchester brass because it seems to be more available and in my opinion, slightly better quality than Remington if it is used in a target rifle.

The parent case for a number of calibers is the 308 Winchester. In fact, the parent of the 308 is the military 7.62 x 51 NATO. By sizing the neck up and down, we make 358 Win (35 cal bullets) the 7-08 (7mm bullets) the 260Rem (a 6.5-08 shooting 6.5mm (.264) bullets) and the 243 Win, shooting 6mm bullets.

If a reloader needs brass for one of these calibers he can easily use the brass from cases using a slightly bigger or smaller bullet. The neck just has to be sized down or expanded up.

BTW, the 356 Win is a rimmed version of the 358 Win. When my new 356 rifle arrived before I had found any 356 brass, I just necked up some military 7.62x51 brass. It worked just fine.
 
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