Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles The MRC 1999 Campfire Special .260 Thread

Best picture yet of the Campfire .260 yet!

Great pic. Good job.

Gun season has been extremely slow at my lease so far. We are surrounded this year by construction crews. To the east and west we have wind generators being built, a new road being built to north and new oil wells to the south.

The few deer I have seen in the daylight have been on the run, but managed to bloody the new Campfire MRC with this young doe. She will eat well and the MRC works.



Now Ineed some cooler weather, less construction and a rut stupid buck!

Well, things improved a bit late yesterday evening as this guy showed himself with 15 minutes of legal light left. On the move at 190 yards it was a quick decision and a more fitting critter for the MRC.

Montana Rifle Company 260 (just the regular one) with a Nightforce 2.5-10x42.

100 grain Barnes TTSX atop H414 = dropped where he stood as did a doe a few minutes later.

Good start on a management program with this big 6 point at a friend's property.

I took a forkhorn on Saturday, at a range of 12 yards (estimate, not lasered) made possible by the fast twist. The little guy nearly ran me over after the shot, but soon crumpled, the CRF while comforting was not called into action.

Mine is for sale, btw.

I was really hoping to be able to hunt with mine this year. Mine must have been the only lemon of the bunch. I called Darrik immediately after I picked mine up from my FFL in September and he quickly got me a paid postage email to print and send back. Second to none customer service. Hopefully I will get it back within 3 weeks. I'll be able to hunt with it at least one weekend this season if it comes back in that time frame. It doesn't look like it will happen though.

Was it a mechanical issue or accuracy related? I'm asking because I have been struggling to get a group. Planning to try again tomorrow with a different load.

I never shot it. It was put together poorly, corrosion on the trigger guard and floor plate, stock was discolored, marks on the barrel, tool marks on the feed ramp etc. The owner of the gun store I had the rifle shipped to made a joke that my rifle was completed on a Friday 20 minutes before closing up the shop. He had some other choice words that I will not post. My rifle looks nothing like the rifles everyone is posting pics of. I just hope it comes back looking like it was put together and finished by a professional and shoots cloverleafs. Attention to detail was lacking in the worst way for my rifle.

With that many problems to overcome, why would you rush the maker to get it back to you for this hunting season? Surely you have other guns and can let the maker take whatever time it takes to make it right? I would suspect that rushing is precisely why it was delivered the way it was.

I never said I wanted them to rush. I said hopefully get it back in time to hunt with it this year. It took 6 months to get it and it has been back at the factory since the beginning of October. I am patiently waiting for it and hope it comes back put together professionally with the attention to detail a rifle of this caliber should have.

I used my campfire 260 to take a nice buck yesterday. Can email pics if somebody can help me post them here.

I wrapped up my elk season this year with another great hunt using my MRC .260. It was a long day covering over 9 miles round trip in deep snow and climbing a lot of elevation. All the while bucking a nasty wind. But the end result was filling my 2nd elk tag of the season with this rifle. I caught a cow just before dark bedded out in a sagebrush and grassy area they feed in. I was able to close the distance to about 80 yards and killed her in her bed. She never moved. I am so pleased with this rifle and it's wonderful carrying and shooting characteristics.

Now I have until Sunday to find a nice buck to kill with it.

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David

Thx for getting the picture up for me. This buck weighed 180 on scales and was180 yards on the laser range finder. I figure that makes him a 180 class buck. I used a 120 grain ballistic tip,hit him center of the shoulder broadside. Bullet existed and he was down right there. But there was a lot of blood under him.
Saw him fall because of the mild recoil, never lost sight of him in my scope. Really the perfect deer rifle for me.

Could a PT&G Model 70 SA aluminum bottom metal unit be put on one of these?

I put PT&G aluminum bottom metal on mine. Had to trim the stock a little to get it to fit, it was Oberndorf style.

I got my rifle back after sending it back to MRC. It is absolutely flawless. It is perfect. Fit and finish is perfect. Everything that was wrong with it is now fixed. Thank you SAS for the excellent customer service and talking to the guys at MRC about fixing my rifle was so painless. They had my rifle in hand as they talked to me and could see everything I didn't like. They fixed it and sent it back. It looks like they gave me a completely different rifle.

Glad things worked out, even if it took some time and trouble. I'd be real interested in hearing how it shoots when you get to it.

Well, cant contribute to this .260 thread, but if you need a heavier hitter, I have a 300wsm that I scoped up with a 3-10 burris and it is a heavier hitter ! Weighs 8 # 14 oz as it currently sits..havent played with it yet cause its just more then i would want to lug..xwr-ss model..you got a lighter rifle out there in a 284 -30 caliber you want to tempt me with via a p.m. ?