260 rem Newbee question...

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Hi!

Sorry for the newbee question but what is exactly the 260 rem caliber?

Someone offer me a interesting 260 rem riffle, but I don't know this caliber and I don't do reloading... (At least for now... Maybe later...)

I have read it's simililar to a 308 caliber with a better balistic...???

Is it expensive? Hard to find?



Thank You for your help!
 
spirit said:
Hi!

Sorry for the newbee question but what is exactly the 260 rem caliber?Someone offer me a interesting 260 rem riffle, but I don't know this caliber and I don't do reloading... (At least for now... Maybe later...) I have read it's simililar to a 308 caliber with a better balistic...??? Is it expensive? Hard to find?
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It is a good cartridge. You can find a little more information out about it here.
 
Thank You!

Factory loads are easy to find? I have look on several dealers on the internet but only few have 260rem...

All review show very good balistics but maybe it's too small for hunting moose... I still unsure.

Thank you all !!! Your help is really apreciated.
 
spirit said:
Thank You!

Factory loads are easy to find? I have look on several dealers on the internet but only few have 260rem...

All review show very good balistics but maybe it's too small for hunting moose... I still unsure.

Thank you all !!! Your help is really apreciated.
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I would suggest probably OK for elk, but a little marginal for moose. How long is the barrel? Barrel length can help a lot with velocity. 24" is nice, but 26" would be better. I would suggest a 24-26" barrel, 140 grain Nosler Partion bullets, and a range under 200 yards, with a well placed shot, should be OK for moose.

Moose are taken with 6.5x55 Swede's and they really don't have anything over a 260 Rem, unless they are hand loaded.
 
Ron AKA said:
I would suggest probably OK for elk, but a little marginal for moose. How long is the barrel? Barrel length can help a lot with velocity. 24" is nice, but 26" would be better. I would suggest a 24-26" barrel, 140 grain Nosler Partion bullets, and a range under 200 yards, with a well placed shot, should be OK for moose.

Moose are taken with 6.5x55 Swede's and they really don't have anything over a 260 Rem, unless they are hand loaded.
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Moose are taken with 30-30s and they don't have much over anything.
 
The 260 Remington is a factory chambring of a wildcat cartridge that was known as the 6.5-08. In other words, a 308 winchester necked down with a 6.5mm bullet.

It has avantages of excellent inherent accuracy, less recoil than a .308, and its available selection of 6.5mm bullets is very good. These bullets can have extremly high ballistic coefficients, and you would need to shoot bullets of about 210 grains from a 308 to come close to what a 6.5 140 grain bullet can do, and the 260 is far faster, so it is ballistically superior to the 308 in almost every regard. In other words you would need to shoot a 30 caliber magnum, such as a 300 WSM to match a 260's performance.

Anything that is called "260, 264, 6.5mm" all uses the same diameter bullets.

As a factory round, they are great for medium sized game, particularly sheep, because the cartridge is such a good flat-shooting one. It is also used by a number of long distance competitive shooters, including me.

Its down side is the barrel life. It is only about 25-30% of what you would get from a 308 in terms of best accuracy.
 
Serious 308 shooters toss a barrel in as little as 3000 rounds, but I have also seen them winning competitions with as many as 10,000 rounds. Mark A. in Kamloops was using a 10000+ McPhee barrel and was kicking butt with it. and THAT was when the BC club matches did not differentiate between FTR and F-Open. So he was competing against 6BR's with it.

I think for the most part, you should be able to count on 5000 ACCURATE rounds from a 308. 260's are pretty much done at 1800- 2000
 
Obtunded said:
Serious 308 shooters toss a barrel in as little as 3000 rounds, but I have also seen them winning competitions with as many as 10,000 rounds. Mark A. in Kamloops was using a 10000+ McPhee barrel and was kicking butt with it. and THAT was when the BC club matches did not differentiate between FTR and F-Open. So he was competing against 6BR's with it.

I think for the most part, you should be able to count on 5000 ACCURATE rounds from a 308. 260's are pretty much done at 1800- 2000
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That kinda tells me that the shooter counts more than the barrel in some instances.
 
Its as much about care for the firearm. Those that shoot their firearms beyond warm, are wearing throats. Those that are loading hot wear out faster, and it also depends to some degree on the quality of the barrel too. One geezer I shot with was loathed for how long he took between shots, He was just as slow pulling target... another story... anyway, he managed 3000+ rounds out of a 6BR, and I have absolutely no doubt it was his painfully slow shooting that allowed this to happen.

I tend to shoot fast, and I guess I pay for it too. 750 rounds in my last 6.5-284 aint very many.
 
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