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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1853049" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>Back when Remington came out with the 260 my hunting buddy got a Rem. 700 24" barrel stainless rifle. At this time he could not find any factory ammo available or even cases to load and there was no load data available. We treated it like a wildcat. We found that we could make some good cases out of Remington 243 Win. cases by necking them up. You could get proper neck length with 243 and 308s were a bit short. We used as a guide starting loads for 6.5x55 and found that H4350 was THE powder. We worked with 120 and 140 gr Sierra bullets. We were doing crop damage control on a big farm in eastern NC were we took 100 deer each year. Between the two of us we took 50 deer with this 260 that season. We shot them from close range to a bit over 500 yards. Only one out of the 50 took a step after taking a bullet and that one took three jumps before going down for good. This rife was extremely accurate with either bullet. By the next deer season my buddy had traded this rifle off to another friend that wanted it for his grandson to hunt with. My buddy never keeps a rife long. Usually gets one gets it shooting and uses it one season then trades it or sales it and starts all over with a new one. </p><p>These days if I had to pick just one bullet for elk down to deer it would be 130 or 140 gr Nosler Accubond depending on twist of rifle. I shoot the 130 AB in my 264 Win mag and it is awesome on deer but I am running it 3350 fps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1853049, member: 10178"] Back when Remington came out with the 260 my hunting buddy got a Rem. 700 24" barrel stainless rifle. At this time he could not find any factory ammo available or even cases to load and there was no load data available. We treated it like a wildcat. We found that we could make some good cases out of Remington 243 Win. cases by necking them up. You could get proper neck length with 243 and 308s were a bit short. We used as a guide starting loads for 6.5x55 and found that H4350 was THE powder. We worked with 120 and 140 gr Sierra bullets. We were doing crop damage control on a big farm in eastern NC were we took 100 deer each year. Between the two of us we took 50 deer with this 260 that season. We shot them from close range to a bit over 500 yards. Only one out of the 50 took a step after taking a bullet and that one took three jumps before going down for good. This rife was extremely accurate with either bullet. By the next deer season my buddy had traded this rifle off to another friend that wanted it for his grandson to hunt with. My buddy never keeps a rife long. Usually gets one gets it shooting and uses it one season then trades it or sales it and starts all over with a new one. These days if I had to pick just one bullet for elk down to deer it would be 130 or 140 gr Nosler Accubond depending on twist of rifle. I shoot the 130 AB in my 264 Win mag and it is awesome on deer but I am running it 3350 fps. [/QUOTE]
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