264 mag

One of my hunting partners/neighbor owned a .264 for the 40 yrs that I knew/hunted with him and we can argue bullet size till the cows come home but his table fare included lots of moose, elk and a truck load or two of deer and his family ( he raised 6 boys) never went hungry. I think that's the best ruler we can use.
 
I view the .264 Win more as .257 Weatherby wih some heavier bullet capability than a 7 rem with enhanced light bullet capability. Maybe that's splitting hairs; but so is filling the gap between the .257 and .270 Westherbys which both predated it by more than a dozen years. Still closer to tbe .257. The 7 rem came later by Rem necking the .264 up 1/2 a millimeter. Oh sure, it probably sounded better in the hook and bullet press to say necked down .338 but thats just the the marketers splitting a different hair. When you have 4 cartridges that are so close that you can convert the brass practically by accident and a few thousandths in bullet diameter you just arent going to get earth shattering differences.
 
Dogleg said:
I view the .264 Win more as .257 Weatherby wih some heavier bullet capability than a 7 rem with enhanced light bullet capability. Maybe that's splitting hairs; but so is filling the gap between the .257 and .270 Westherbys which both predated it by more than a dozen years. Still closer to tbe .257. The 7 rem came later by Rem necking the .264 up 1/2 a millimeter. Oh sure, it probably sounded better in the hook and bullet press to say necked down .338 but thats just the the marketers splitting a different hair. When you have 4 cartridges that are so close that you can convert the brass practically by accident and a few thousandths in bullet diameter you just arent going to get earth shattering differences.
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If the 264 is on par with the 257 Bee, then it would be fine for cape buffalo....
 
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