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I finally found a like new Mod 700 BDL SS 26" .264 Magnum I could afford! I plan on setting it up with 100-120gr Deer/Pronghorn bullets as I am a point and shoot hunter. No dialing for me...I can't read the wind very well out around 250 on. Wondering what the prairie/bean field deer hunters use?

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I use 140 grain ballistic tips in mine and a 26 Nosler. They do well in both. I use 120 TTSX in a 6.5-06 and Creedmoor’s.

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Take a look at Barnes 127 gr. LRX bullets.
I'm getting right at 3300 out of a 26" barrel.


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What powder (s) you gentlemen using respectively?

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120 gr ballistic tips @ 3400 fps..........RL25

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I haven't seen any 120 NBT in years! ha I used them 25yrs ago in a 6.5/284, they were greased lightning!

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125gr Partition; IMR7828. Been using that load 20+ years. It's worked so well, I've never bothered to try anything else. >3300 fps

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Thanks Tex, I have some 7828. I used a few of those 125 PTs in that 6.5/284 on Pronghorn too, I thought they were tough enough for elk, but traded the rifle off before I could find out. I've played with the .260, the CreedMoor and a 6.5 PRC a wee bit. I just never had a 264WM before. I'm looking forward to wringing it out.

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I use iMR 4350, not the fastest, but groups well.

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I am using Accurate 3100 (think IMR4831) and 7828. 140 gr Speer Deep Curls.

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I have a good friend down in SE Texas that has been using the 264WM since 1976. Always 140gr of some make. It was owned by another good friend I worked with and I would always, in jest, "offer him $150" for it, Redfield 3x9 and all. Well, his wife ended up leaving him and he told me he would take the $150! I had 2 yr old Twin girls, two car notes, mortgage, meaning zero money! ha My other friend had been looking for " a good deer rifle", so I put them together. About 10yrs ago he had a gunsmith really clean it, ha. It shoots good as ever! That's one reason I wanted one, the nostalgia experience, but his barrel is 24". I would have bought several Browning Hi Powers 264s but all I ever found were the 22" barrels! Bummer! ha I was thrilled to see this one in 26". Keep it coming guys, lots of you serious 264WM deer hunters out there! smile

Oh yes, the it is a Mod 700 BDL. Has that old Fleur De Leis checkering pattern. His three boys have made some long shots in clearcuts with it too.

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Mine is a 700 action w a 28 inch McGowen #5 contour barrel.
130 Accubonds on top of WC872 for 3350 FPS


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Mine is an old Sako L-61 with 26 inch barrel. I tried to sell it on here for 1500.00 with a Leupold 4.5x14 CDS scope, but it didn’t sell. I’ve decided to keep it. I thought I could get down to 6 to 8 rifles, just could not, but at least it’s manageable now. They are all in the 40 gun safe instead of under every bed.


140 ballistic tips shoot well in it. I’ve been threatening to try the 120 TTSX that I load for Creeds and 6.5-06

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Hot-Duck- McGowan barrel? Isn't that cheating on those poor deer? LOL
Hanco- I've never seen a Sako in 264,ever, at any gun-show, used gun rack either. What are the odds of that? Before ObammaCare bit me in the heinie, years back, I had a Sako AV. I had just bought it at a Pawnshop locally. It was a 24"30-06. It had been there awhile for about $600 I asked the guy if he would take $450, Cash, right then. He did it! I shot it a tiny bit, then "Boom", had to sell it, ha.

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I have been hunting with a Sako Deluxe .264 - 26" Barrel . 140 Gr. Noslers at about 1-2 Grs past max , where she shoots excellent, since late '60's.

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Another Sako in 264! I have yet to lay my hands/eyes on the first one, Rare for me! And I have been at this Rifle Looney stuff since I was eight, ha. Before this thread, I knew of exactly 3 guys who used the 264WM, another rare find in my travels. I think the round was unfairly criticized as a "barrel burner" from the beginning. Back then, most everyone I knew who hunted with a centerfire shot them sparingly anyhow. The .22 was the one we all shot all year long, ha.

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Hot-Duck- McGowan barrel? Isn't that cheating on those poor deer? LOL
Hanco- I've never seen a Sako in 264,ever, at any gun-show, used gun rack either. What are the odds of that? Before ObammaCare bit me in the heinie, years back, I had a Sako AV. I had just bought it at a Pawnshop locally. It was a 24"30-06. It had been there awhile for about $600 I asked the guy if he would take $450, Cash, right then. He did it! I shot it a tiny bit, then "Boom", had to sell it, ha.



I had two, sold one locally a month and a half ago. Shrap has one for sale in the classifieds. A Deluxe.

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I bought a Model 70 XTR a couple of years ago for my uncle who lost his in a trailer fire. One day it will be returned to me. I look forward to hunting across the hollows and into the fields with it.
I would try different ammo and see which shoots best and go from there. Accuracy is the best criteria. None of the loads are too slow to do what you want to do.

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The only good bullet when I had mine was a 140 grain partition. Now there are many good bullets including partitions v


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In the 1980s the 129 grain Hornady did well for my father. He was using IMR7828 and also H1000 when it first came out and was made in Scotland.

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