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Will a 260 (22"barrel) hold enough energy to cleanly take deer sized game out to 600 yards?? If so, what would your load be. My gun shoots 130 & 140 VLD's very well.

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Muzzle velocity?


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Originally Posted by RatherBHuntin
Will a 260 (22"barrel) hold enough energy to cleanly take deer sized game out to 600 yards?? If so, what would your load be. My gun shoots 130 & 140 VLD's very well.



Yes....

If your gun likes the VLDs, run em.

I used a 20" Tikka CTR on several culling/cleanout jobs on WT out to that distance and further with the 140 VLDs, 123 and 139 Scenars. Never felt under gunned.

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If you know your velocity and run the numbers in a ballistics program, you will see that at 600 yards, the .260 has plenty of horsepower for deer. I have not shot a deer with mine at that long of a range, but I did smack one at 430 last January, with a 129-grain Interlock-drt. If you like Bergers, then use them and you will do fine.


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A sleek 130 at 2,850-2,900fps will get to 600 yds with a retained velocity of 2,000fps or so. I've seen my daughter shoot quite a few deer with conventional Ballistic Tips in the 120-140gr range, using light loads that gave impact speeds of 1,800-2,000fps. They penetrated just fine on broadside shots and wrecked vitals. I'm not likely to shoot a deer at 600yds, but I think the 260 would do it if need be.


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Absolutely... I shoot 140 grain Amax in a 22" 260 and killed a bull elk with it at 500 yards with no problems whatsoever...


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Originally Posted by Cinch
Absolutely... I shoot 140 grain Amax in a 22" 260 and killed a bull elk with it at 500 yards with no problems whatsoever...



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My 13 year old daughter killed hers the day before at 450 with the same rifle so I had to show her up...


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I'd fret the shooter/rifle not the .260 at those distances, especially when referencing "energy"....


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Originally Posted by RatherBHuntin
Will a 260 (22"barrel) hold enough energy to cleanly take deer sized game out to 600 yards?? If so, what would your load be. My gun shoots 130 & 140 VLD's very well.


No..they will bounce off at that distance.

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[quote=Fotis]Muzzle velocity?


I shoot the 140's sub MOA out of my tikka hunter at about 2720 w R17

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Originally Posted by Cinch
Absolutely... I shoot 140 grain Amax in a 22" 260 and killed a bull elk with it at 500 yards with no problems whatsoever...


Interesting. I am toying with maybe taking my .260 for a walk, or two during my Nebraska cow elk hunt. I have some 147 ELD-Ms loaded to 2724 fps. I am going to see if Re26 spices that up a bit, after I receive some more bullets next week .


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Absolutely... I shoot 140 grain Amax in a 22" 260 and killed a bull elk with it at 500 yards with no problems whatsoever...


Interesting. I am toying with maybe taking my .260 for a walk, or two during my Nebraska cow elk hunt. I have some 147 ELD-Ms loaded to 2724 fps. I am going to see if Re26 spices that up a bit, after I receive some more bullets next week .


I have 100% confidence with using a 260/Amax combo on elk...


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Be interested in what you find with the R26. The 147s run 2725 out of mine over H4350 and getting short, I picked up some 26 to see if I could find some additional velocity. No joy in the 6.5 version, but had some good gains in the 6 CM with 105s...

IMR 4350 in the 6.5 looks like it's going to give me about 60 FPS gains, still with single digit ES, SDs.

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Originally Posted by Cinch
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Absolutely... I shoot 140 grain Amax in a 22" 260 and killed a bull elk with it at 500 yards with no problems whatsoever...


Interesting. I am toying with maybe taking my .260 for a walk, or two during my Nebraska cow elk hunt. I have some 147 ELD-Ms loaded to 2724 fps. I am going to see if Re26 spices that up a bit, after I receive some more bullets next week .


I have 100% confidence with using a 260/Amax combo on elk...


What velocity are you getting from the 140? I also have some 140 Partitions coming for testing. I was told that re 26 gets the 140s some real good speed.


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2810fps with a 140 Amax and H4350...


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My pal from the Yukon, a few years back with one of the largest bodied bucks I've ever seen. Killed cleanly with one shot from one of my .260's I'd loaned him. If I recall, the shot was 400+ meters.
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.260 is great round. It's never let me down. Use it with confidence....


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Killed a few elk with it too...


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