26 Calibers

[HUFFMANWG]

Any one else playing around with these? I have a 6.5/284 an a 264 win mag. Plus a 6.5 swede. All are good shooters.
What's ya'lls thoughts on these toys?

 

[42769vette]

i have a 260 rem

 

[Leo]

Great bullet diameter. The charts for ballistic co-effecients vs diameter vs bullet weight show the 6.5 mm bullets very favorably. I have done all the above mentioned calibers at one time or another. Before there was a .260 Remington, there was a wildcat called the 6.5 American. I built one of those as well as a 6.5 mm verson of the 7mm TCU. I built a 6.5mm X 284 rifle for 1000 yard work and it held the wind so good it was almost like cheating, but barrel life was pretty short. I built a 7mm express rifle for a 1000 yard rifle and with a heavy enough bullet, performed as well as the 6.5 X 284 but there was a LOT more recoil.

 

[avboiler11]

260 Remington...does everything the 308 does, just better.

I have two of them.

 

[bstewrat3]

I have had several 6.5's over the years and all have been great shooters. The latest and probably my favorite is the 6.5 TCU. It is the most accurate I have ever owned. It will literally drive nails at 100 yards when shot out of my T/C Contender.

 

[Broom_jm]

The only 6.5 I currently own is a 6.5JDJ. It's a 225 Winchester case necked up to .264" and fired from a 14" Contender barrel. Very accurate and powerful enough for 250 yard shots on deer. It shoots 120gr BT's into 1" groups more often than not.

 

[DRob]

Going long

I don't have any of the calibers mentioned but I know some old boys who go way long with 6 & 6.5 MM cartridges. One of them has just completed a 1 mile range on his farm in TN.

 

[42769vette]

i guess we mise well make this a picture thread.

stiller action
shelin barrel
manners stock
badger detachable mag with rad latch
seekings rings
vortex razor 5-20x50 ffp/moa (not pictured)
rifle basix trigger
eagle stock pack
harris s series bipod

100yd 3 shot group

750 yard 4 shot group (measures about 3 inches i forgot to put somthing in the pic to judge size)

 

[Broom_jm]

Very cool Vette, but uh...what cartridge is it?

 

[42769vette]

Very cool Vette, but uh...what cartridge is it?

260 remington

 

[sloughfoot]

Very cool Vette, but uh...what cartridge is it?

Vette forgot that this is the reloading section. He is supposed to post pics of the cartridge, not the rifle.....

BTW, I sold him his first 260 a couple of years ago.... I still miss it and will build another one. It is a very useful and versatile caliber.

 

[42769vette]

Vette forgot that this is the reloading section. He is supposed to post pics of the cartridge, not the rifle.....

BTW, I sold him his first 260 a couple of years ago.... I still miss it and will build another one. It is a very useful and versatile caliber.

you got me hooked on the 260

 

[Broom_jm]

The 260 Remington is probably the best cartridge out there that just isn't doing all that well. A lot of folks have wondered why we have a 243 Winchester, 260 Remington, 7mm-08, 338 Federal, 358 Winchester and even the wildcat 25 Souper...but don't have a 308 case necked down to shoot .277" bullets.

I think it's because the 260 and 7mm-08 are pretty close to the perfect evolution of the 308, aside from the parent round itself. I know a lot of guys who shoot those two rounds who have stated that if they didn't own a single rifle, they could buy a 260 or 7-08 and be set for all of their hunting and target shooting needs. I tend to agree.

 

[avboiler11]

The 260 Remington is probably the best cartridge out there that just isn't doing all that well.

Remington introduced the 260 in the late 90s with a barrel twist too slow to shoot 140gr bullets well, and when it didn't sell like hotcakes, left it to wither on the vine.

Then tactical/practical shooters discovered it stomps mightily on the 308, providing near 300WM ballistics for a fraction of the recoil & per-round cost, and flocked to it enmasse. Now Savage makes multiple rifles in 260, Federal will soon release a 142SMK Gold Metal Match load, and its only getting more popular. Lapua makes brass for it, and RP brass can be darn near impossible to find at certain times.

And Remington makes exactly one rifle in 260 in 2012 - a Model 7.

 

[42769vette]

Remington introduced the 260 in the late 90s with a barrel twist too slow to shoot 140gr bullets well, and when it didn't sell like hotcakes, left it to wither on the vine.

Then tactical/practical shooters discovered it stomps mightily on the 308, providing near 300WM ballistics for a fraction of the recoil & per-round cost, and flocked to it enmasse. Now Savage makes multiple rifles in 260, Federal will soon release a 142SMK Gold Metal Match load, and its only getting more popular. Lapua makes brass for it, and RP brass can be darn near impossible to find at certain times.

And Remington makes exactly one rifle in 260 in 2012 - a Model 7.

That's the first I've heard of federal releasing fgmm ammo for the 260. That's the best news I've heard in a long time.

Thanks for the info

 

[avboiler11]

.260 Rem Match ammo from Federal. - Sniper's Hide Forums

The stuff is basically unobtanium at this point, who knows when it will ACTUALLY be available.

Midway shows it as "coming soon", but for $38 per box I doubt it'll sell much..especially when Copper Creek and Southwest Ammo both are $30 per box.

IMO, Federal will need to get the pricepoint down close to 308 FGMM for it to sell...

 

[42769vette]

.260 Rem Match ammo from Federal. - Sniper's Hide Forums

The stuff is basically unobtanium at this point, who knows when it will ACTUALLY be available.

Midway shows it as "coming soon", but for $38 per box I doubt it'll sell much..especially when Copper Creek and Southwest Ammo both are $30 per box.

IMO, Federal will need to get the pricepoint down close to 308 FGMM for it to sell...

Agreed

 

[Broom_jm]

Remington introduced the 260 in the late 90s with a barrel twist too slow to shoot 140gr bullets well, and when it didn't sell like hotcakes, left it to wither on the vine.

Then tactical/practical shooters discovered it stomps mightily on the 308, providing near 300WM ballistics for a fraction of the recoil & per-round cost, and flocked to it enmasse. Now Savage makes multiple rifles in 260, Federal will soon release a 142SMK Gold Metal Match load, and its only getting more popular. Lapua makes brass for it, and RP brass can be darn near impossible to find at certain times.

And Remington makes exactly one rifle in 260 in 2012 - a Model 7.

Well, I don't know that it's getting more popular, but at least it hasn't been relegated to obscurity just yet. The irony is that the 6.5 Grendel and 260 have virtually identical capabilities, and neither is all that different from the 6.5x55 Swedish, except that they're short action cases. You can throw a very small performance blanket over all three.

None are flying off the shelves, but none are going away, either. All very useful rounds...I just wish Remington had given the 260 some good factory support.

 

[avboiler11]

Well, I don't know that it's getting more popular, but at least it hasn't been relegated to obscurity just yet. The irony is that the 6.5 Grendel and 260 have virtually identical capabilities, and neither is all that different from the 6.5x55 Swedish, except that they're short action cases. You can throw a very small performance blanket over all three.

While the Swede, Creedmore and 260 are very comparable in performance (with the 6.5x47 right there, maybe a quarter-step behind), the 6.5 Grendel simply does not compare ballistically to the 260.

Most of the data I've seen on the interwebs has a 24" Grendel pushing a 123gr A-Max at 2620fps (Hornady factory load)...a 260 from a 24" gas gun improves on that by at least 250fps, and a 24" bolt gun can hit 3000fps without pushing pressure.

Of course that's not to say the Grendel isn't a capable round...it just doesn't have the case capacity to match velocities with a 308-based cartridge.

 

[42769vette]

Well, I don't know that it's getting more popular, but at least it hasn't been relegated to obscurity just yet. The irony is that the 6.5 Grendel and 260 have virtually identical capabilities, and neither is all that different from the 6.5x55 Swedish, except that they're short action cases. You can throw a very small performance blanket over all three.

None are flying off the shelves, but none are going away, either. All very useful rounds...I just wish Remington had given the 260 some good factory support.

i was thinking a 6.5 grendal was doing good to hit the same velocity's with a 123 gr bullet that a 260 does with a 140. am i mistaken?