How did the silhouette shooters deal with the .260's "issues", just single-loading?
Yes, once the hunter class rules were liberalized where a competitor was not required to feed rounds out of a magazine, only have a hunter class rifle capable of feeding from a magazine, then most of them switched over to single loading. In the standard (aka heavy) rifle class, you never had to feed out of a magazine, so they mostly all single loaded from the start. The other big change in the last several years has been the movement from the 308 family of cartridges (ie, 308, 7mm-08, 260) to shorter/smaller rounds like the 6.5x47 Lapua, the 260 Bobcat (aka 6.5x250 Sav), the 6.5 Creedmoor, and now the 6mm BR with fast twist barrels to handle the long & 'heavy' 6mm match bullets.
