Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Is a 26 Nosler an all around big game cartridge?

For what you're doing I'd run the 300 you already have. If you want to downsize a 7/08 would work great for what you're doing too.

Ditto

Ditto again

The idea that recoil and trigger time have no connection is just plain silly. I don't know anyone who pounds out hundreds of rounds at a time behind big 7 and 300 class mags. Of course their idea of trigger time and mine are probably miles apart.

I don't understand all the replies in the negative.

[bleep], it's not complicated. A 6.5x55, 264 Win Mag, 270 Win, are also all capable, as are many others. Use an appropriate bullet for the high velocity and shoot animals in the right place.

I would guess the 140 Partition, 140 Accubond, or some TTSX or other tough bullet, heavy for caliber, would work nicely.

I actually have a 700 SPS 7mm08 in stainless that I never put a scope back on after the trigger recall. Thought about selling it and getting a 260 and using it as my main rifle and setting the 300 win mag aside for elk and bear.

I would scope the 7/08 and go. Put a Timney on it if you want to change triggers.

Hello friend, welcome to the Campfire.

If you want, save your 300 for Elk and Bears. Put a new trigger in your 7-08 There are a few after market triggers that will work just fine.

Re-scope your rifle, practice and you should be golden.

Take care

your all set. I love the 260 Rem, but with a 300 and 700 7-08, you need nothing else. That 7-08 with a good trigger will do 99 out of 100 things needing doing in NA.

Sometimes stuff like that just happens. I shot a buck at 100 yards with a .30-06 and cup and core PSP bullet and it did the same thing, dime sized hole in and out. Zero blood on the ground, found him in a brush pile 20 yards away.

Scopebite, welcome to the fire.

I am of the opinion that the 7mm-08 that you mentioned just may be perfectly suited for 350 ish yds.


Shod

Randy & Shod,
Thanks for the warm welcome. I love the site. A lot of great information/recommendations. And drama. Love it!

I'll add a welcome. The drama can be fun if you let it

You would keep it, buy a .260 anyway, play musical scopes with them a half dozen times, and hunt them both.



Cause you're a whore.

Since you mentioned you have a 7mm-08 like some of the others have said use it and your 300 WM, pretty tough to beat those two for anything in North America and world wide for that matter.

You seem un-thrilled about the Remmy, and curious about 6.5s.

I geeked out on .260 Rem vs. 6.5 Creedmoor for awhile recently. Both are flat shooting - which is faster with a given bullet and powder kinda depends on whose data you're looking at. Both only really make sense if you're hand loading.

The result of my research is that I'd go .260 for hunting. If I didn't already have things closely bracketing it, I'd probably pick up another Tikka in .260. Many regard it as the Goldilocks caliber for white tail; softer recoil and flatter shooting than 7-08, but with a little more thump and longer barrel life than .243. There's a lot more load data out there with a range of hunting rounds for .260 than for CM.

I'd go CM for targets. It was designed to do that job, and it does it with a few key advantages over .260. The load data that's out there is focused on target rounds, more than hunting.

No hands-on experience with either cartridge, but I'm pretty good at sorting out mechanical technologies. Maybe this will help.

OK, so you know me It sounds like good advice for the OP as well

Where else can you get:
1. A warm welcome?
2. Load data?
3. Called a whore?
What a beautiful thing!

yes and the 28 Nosler may even be better. My favorite Big Game Round is the 7x57 with a 160 gr bullet

But Ingwe charged San Juan Hill to capture his first 7x57

I need to shoot mine some.