Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Has the .260's hair turned red?

This. Recently came across some scuttlebutt that the .260 is on the rise in the AR world (wonder what took so long). If that turns out to be the case, stand by for increased availability of all things related.

DocGKR has been posting in another forum suggesting the .260 is on the rise with .mil users.

My speculation is the geometry being more like the 30-06 and 7.62x51 gives it an edge in reliability when feeding in autoloaders. Who would have guessed?

Mine runs just fine at 2.81 with 140/142 pills. Brass is no big deal, buy Nosler, Lapua, and shoot away.

But I am a read head so who knows?

260 is thriving, its one of the most popular cartridges in the exploding sport of PRS.

I'm going through a quandary - do I re-barrel a 260 Rem Model Seven or just buy a new rifle.

I hardly have any hair, but I can easily fit rounds in the Savage 260 when loaded with 139gr Scenars. Knocks holes in pronghorns too!

Bought a closeout SS/fluted T3 from Whittakers a month ago. Dies and brass (WW and Lapua 7-08) should arrive this week. Someone tune me up on a longer (3.00") detachable mag.

Considered a Montana in Cred pretty hard. May go that route if the T3 doesn't make be happy. Still perplexed by the "loose" recoil lug thingy. It'll prolly shoot despite this.

The good news is my read headed child is shooting pretty good albeit with the shorter bullets. Well, "fantastic" with the shorter ones but only "good to great" with a longer one. Got a T3x Hunter in .260 and this is from a comment I made about it in another thread.


Tikka T3x .260 – This one is the classic .260 conundrum since it comes with a 2.8” magazine, you can load to 2.805 or 2.81” max. The relatively short Hornady 100 gr. A-Max is only .01 off the lands at a 2.8” OAL, even the Hornady 129 Spire Point is only .015” off the lands when seated to touch. But the 123 gr. A-Max is a full .090” off the lands at 2.8”. In mine the 100 and 129 grainers shoot just fine, half inch or better for 4 shots in fact (it is a Tikka, after all), but that 123 grain bullet needs another .08” room, it will shoot great but only if you load it too long to fit in the mag.

You can modify the Tikka bolt stop to allow a full length travel and that’s probably what you’d need to do if you want to use that in conjunction with a full length magazine to really touch the lands with the longer bullets. I tried a long magazine to see if that would work – even in their "short action" i.e. short bolt stop the bolt comes back far enough to allow a 3.1” OAL and still pick up the rounds - but feeding becomes problematic with bullets tending to nose dive and shift around in the magazine too much.

Sent my parts off to the smith last week, including a Wyatt's box. I spec'd out the build sheet down to the last detail, if it comes back with red hair I'm gonna be pissed.

Gee guys....

some of us around here have been shooting the Ruger 77 Mk2 in 260, with a one in 8 twist and a decent length magazine for a decade and a half or more....

or the Rem VLS since about 1998.....

why so long for everyone to get on the bandwagon, on something that offers so much....

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