Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 260 Rem Loads...

Have and will for Little Dude to plink till the rest of 5 lbs is gone. 22" barrel, 2950 in R-P hulls, Fed 210, 120 accutips (SST), Moly.

Bring your drop tube... and don't plan on loading '19 on a Dillon.

42gr-H4350
140 Berger VLD
Federal Match Primers
2.800
600 yards into 5" groups w/#3Rock barrel

No I believe they made Reloder 17 for .260s.

Here's a ladder I did yesterday with 7828ssc and 140gr Amaxes. Appears to be a definite lack of vertical from 46.2gr to 47.7gr. The grid is 1cm and the ladder was shot at 300 meters. Within the node, looks to me to be <1/2" of vertical. I'm going to load up some with 46.8gr for accuracy testing.

Warning! 47.7 and 48gr are too hot, leaving definite ejector marks on the Lapua brass.

John

I am looking at a Rem model 7 .260 20" barrel. What kind of velocity shouid I expect from 100g/120gr bullets.

A case full of H 4831sc with the 120 gr Core Lokt clocked in the 2750 fps range in the 20" BLR I used to have. With the right load you should be able to break 2800 fps still with the shorter barrel and 120's.

43 gr. of '15 will getcha 3097 fps with 108 Scenars in a 22" tube.

I get 2650 with 129 Hornady SP over 44.5grs of Win WXR[Rel-22] and a CCI 250 primer out of my 18.5" model 7 260rem. So maybe another 150fp with the 100s and 20" to work with.

Settled in at 2.800....

I just got my first .260; Encore rifle. this is just the information I needed.

A number of .260 shooters have maligned the Hornady 95-grain V-Max bullet for poor accuracy. I don't doubt that they experienced poor accuracy, but in my M700VLS they shoot very well. The "best" load has been 46 grains of W760 for 3140 fps and 20-shot aggregates in the .6s - although only a few loads with other powders have exceeded 1 moa with this bullet. Here is admittedly one of the better groups.

My current 260 Rem load has been performing well. The load below has been repetitively 1/2 MOA with less than 1" vertical out to 550 yards. I think it can do better with some fine tuning.

260 Lapua brass / full length S die with .292 bushing
Berger 130 VLD Hunting
IMR 4064 @ 39grs.
CCI-200 Primer
COL@ 2.942"

Avg speed 2853 with 19 ES /12 SD with 15 shots.

Could you guys help me out with a load with some of the lighter weights 100 gr and under . Looking to kill yotes between 50 and 350 yds and the 130 and 140's would be way overkill. I've got varget , re22, and h4350 on hand and fed 210m's and 215m's. This is out of an m7. Thanks in advance

2700 should be easy to reach. I get nearly that with 129gr hornadys and the 18.5" barrel.

Nosler's latest manual lists IMR 4064 as the most accurate powder with their 100 grain ballistic tips and partitions...

They also list MV as close to 3300.0 fps out of a 22 inch barrel (If I remember the barrel length of their test rifle correctly)

my chrony, the one that is highly accused as being inaccurate oh here, lists the MV of a 100 grain bullet, as 3350 fps out of a 22 inch barrel, when I developed a load with IMR 4064 with that bullet before data was available... my load is half a grain more than Nosler listed in their manual...

I'm not quite sure I want to be behind a 260 shooting anything at 33000 fps sounds like I might be seeing some pressure problems on the brass and quick barrel erosion. You must be using the mag primers for that load . LOL

yeah maybe those guys WERE Right.... my Chrony is off some....

or I got a little overzealous and show how crappy my typing is...


I'll take off a zero so some nimrod won't try to get 33000 fps out of his 260... the type they got all concerned about...

I've never shot them in my 260, but 95gr V-max ran real well in my 6.5x55 ruger at 3100fps when using IMR4064. Used that same load with the 100gr BT and killed a fat doe at about 100yds away. Bullet worked well and even broke the offside shoulder upon exiting the critter.

As a do all bullet for 'chucks, 'yotes, and deer, the 100gr Nosler BT might serve well.

Recently I received 1000 of the 100 grain A Maxes I had order via Powder Valley... been playing with this bullet out to 700 yds ( rock busting only at that distance) but I have to recommend trying some of them.

at our local range there is a rock out at 725 yds ( laser ranged ) that is about the size of a folding chair like ya see down at church or in a school.

with one of my Ruger's zeroed 1.5 inches at 100 yds with these 100 grain A Maxes, behind a simple charge of 40 grains of IMR 4895, with scope set on 2.5 power ( a 1.5 x 6 Scope), by holding the aiming point at the spot where the lower post goes from thick to thinner on the rock, the bullet was striking pretty much dead center....

could see the strike in the scope reticle, but a spotter with a 12 power set of Binocs also verified it..

haven't had a chance to chronograph it with my 'crappy' Shooting Chrony yet....but when I reload the cases, I don't even have to neck size them ( for the first 3 reloads on that brass).. deprime, seat a new bullet, and give it just a simple barely touching crimp and its good to go...

40 grains is even giving me some blow back on the case, which I clean off with steel wool and a tumble in the old Tumbler....

oh and they shoot little bitty groups at 100 yds also....

Hi guys. Maybe this should be a new topic, but since my rifle is a 260 rem, I'll at least start here.

I notice that in this forum (which admittedly I have not read in it's entirety) and other handloading/reloading sites it is common for loads to exceed the "maximum" posted loads in the manuals by A LOT.

Has everybody REALLY started out at the manuals' starting loads and cautiously increased the load fractions of grains at a time up to, and beyond, the published maximums?

In a time where ALL the components are in short supply, is there a SAFE way to "get there" sooner? Or at least to get close to "there" so that the resources can be used more efficiently?

I see all kinds of guidance. Anything from starting at the minimum published load to starting a 90% - 95% of the published max load. I know, the min load is usually ~90% of the max load, but using 95% would save half the bullets, primers and powder.

And when I see that virtually everybody is using loads that are significantly above the published max loads, I wonder about trying 90% or 95% of these supermax loads.

I have a chrono and wonder if I shouldn't just make the jumps on powder charge based on how close to a targeted MV.

I also have learned that the best charge has to be found by testing on each and every gun, and I wonder about what range of velocities or range of powder charge less than supermax or maybe even published max I should do my ladder at.

I saw a post someplace that said to use a chrono and get up to 2775 - 2825; then fine tune.

My rifle is a Savage M12 LRP.