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Tikka CTR or possibly changing a 308 build to the 260?
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Want a LR profile rifle that a newer shooter can use and for varmint hunting with less recoil than a 308/7mm-08.
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the 243 somehow missed your consideration?.....
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Be ultra-elitist and run a 6.5x47 in lapua brass.
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the 243 somehow missed your consideration?..... Not a fan of the 243. RDW that's just a at tad too much elitist
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I can't think of any reason to run a 6.5CM on a Tikka if you hand load.
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260 was my answer to 243, 7-08, and gasp...270. So much schit overlaps that only your barber knows the difference anyway.
But fellas like to skullphuck nuances to death.
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I'm guilty of such things. It never ends. I could have stopped at the 30.06 but why?
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A good friend of mine has a precision rifle in the 6.5 Creedmore. I have one in .260.
In shooting them side by side in the field, at long range steel, I cannot tell any difference between the two.
I like the .260 just for the fact that I can easily make brass from various common SA cartridges, and in fact the majority of my .260 brass is from M118LR brass.
This sounds about right.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
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I bought a Browning Low Wall in 260, liked it so much I bought a Browning A Bolt in 260, then a Remington 7 in 260. Can't control myself..is there a 260 anonymous????
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Seafire, what 100 grain projectiles are you sending through your .260?
A TTSX at 3300 fps sounds interesting.
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Be ultra-elitist and run a 6.5x47 in lapua brass. I'm gonna go one step further and be an ultra, ultra elitist and run a 6x47 Lapua alongside my 6.5 Creed - because I can.
I never thought I'd grow up to be a grumpy old man, but I did, and I'm killin' it.
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I'm going Uber-Elitist and shooting a .338x47....
You better pray to the God of Skinny Punks that this wind doesn't pick up......
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Be ultra-elitist and run a 6.5x47 in lapua brass. I'm gonna go one step further and be an ultra, ultra elitist and run a 6x47 Lapua alongside my 6.5 Creed - because I can. Now that's a rifle looney!!
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Just get a 6.5x55 in a T3 and be done with it. That's what I did. Twice.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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And roll Le Pouy for the snob factor. Pinky out, Muffy.....
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Be ultra-elitist and run a 6.5x47 in lapua brass. I'm gonna go one step further and be an ultra, ultra elitist and run a 6x47 Lapua alongside my 6.5 Creed - because I can. Hey now, I represent that remark ! 
I never thought I'd grow up to be a grumpy old man, but I did, and I'm killin' it.
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The two main reasons to go CM have both been mentioned. The cartridge's reason for existence is to load ultra-long ogive LR target bullets at magazine length. If that's the game you want to play, it's probably the right tool for the job.
Hornady is pushing for the success of the cartridge, and prices its loaded ammo very competitively. So if you're not a hand loader, there's another reason to go CM.
But if you want to kill things and are a hand loader, there's a lot more load data for a lot more killing-things bullets published for .260. Plus, Tikka chambers for .260, but not CM.
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