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My Model 7 SS in 260 would probably be the last rifle to leave my possesion. As much as I like some of my "pretty guns" like my 1AH in 25-06, 8 times out of 10 the little 260 goes out to play when it's time to get a deer.
She's kind of like Catherine Zeta Jones, get your hands on one of those and ya just don't wanna let go! Magical!

I have a couple of 260's, both of em Kimber 84's. One is a Montana, the other a classic in a purdy piece of Walnut. The Montana wears a 2-7X33 leupie, and the classic wears a 2.5-8 leupie, for the money, I would go with the 2-7. I am just not impressed as everyone else is with the 2.5-8. Both seem to love 120 TSX's over 4350. Kills deer pretty good as well.

Having both, I can tell you that you can easily "equal" the recoil of the 260 by loading a 130TSX in your 308. The recoil that you are really feeling, IME, is the short-barrel of the original Model 7. I have two of those in 260, and they both bite pretty good. As far as felt recoil, my featherweight 30-06 has less bite than the 260s.

Overall, the 260 has worked fine for me, but I still like the more authoritative thump of the 30 calibers. It seems to make 'em sicker quicker.

Must be ONE large heart on these beasts.

There was certainly something about the little wood and blue model 7, light, easy to tote, easy in a tree stand but pull the trigger ant that sucker got your attention and quickly.

GPA,
You could always just rebarrel your current Model 7 to .260.

Unless you just "need" another rifle

Mark

I have a 260 Mountain Rifle and it likes Sierra Pro hunter 120 gr. with IMR 4350. I have taken several deer with the rifle, and I don't remember doing any chasing after the shot.

It's a remington so it's got to be almost perfect.

That's right Nawlins. Remingtons don't get enough love. Great rifles!

They are the Leupold of rifles- great product that's everywhere, and the big dog, so everyone takes potshots at it.

-jeff

Picked up my Remington Model 7 CDL in .260 Rem. (Leupold 1.5-5 x 20 scope) yesterday. Took it to the range todsy: In a word AWESOME!!!!

Thanks for all your input.

Barney

I have a M7 in .308 and tried some of the High Energy loads from Federal with the 180 partition....man that definetly gets your attention from that short barrel!!!

I have a .260 Montana that I love, accuracy is a bit inconsistent right now everything else about the rifle makes me want to overlook the accuracy issue. I absolutley love the .260 and if I can get that kimber to shoot sub moa with the 125 partition or hopefully a 110-120gr TTSX I will retire my .308s.

I bet that is a really tidy package.

Great thread.

My daughter used a .260 MR to take her first mulie and later took her first pronghorn. 120 TSX for the deer and 100's for the pronghorn.

That just shows what a versatile round the 260 is...open country for pronghorn, and then load up 140s and it is good for elk in the thick stuff.. all without giving you a lot of recoil to try and have to manage...

and congrats to daughter on her antelope there!!!

I had a Kimber Classic .260 that I really liked. The only issue I have with the .260 is that in order to realize it's full potential, one really needs to hand load as factory fodder is extremely limited.

I've have noticed that Remington has released a Managed Recoil load for the .260 Rem. I believe it's a 140gr. Core-Lokt PSP around 2360fps (same with a 7mm-08)

In my mind, that would be an excellent load for young kids (and ladies) getting introduced to hunting and shooting as the recoil would extremely low. The only question I have is would the bullet open up and expand well on game within 100 yards with the velocity publish?

Remington is using IMR 4198 for its Managed Recoil loads...
To duplicate, just look at the old IMR load data pamphlets, when they use to post loads for each powder, in each cartridge...

In the 260 Managed Recoil ( how's that for a corporate MBA name for download???) I am sure the bullet is a 120 grain Corelokt.. they usually use pretty light bullets in those loads...or the lightest one that they have made for them as corelokts...

I would have thought so as well. I know they're using the lighter bullets for the .270, 30-06, etc. However, the ammo I saw for sale for both the .260 and 7mm-08 were 140gr. Core-Lokt PSP, and they were both listed as the Managed Recoil loads (2300-2360fps).

I always thought the 120 CoreLokt was supposed to be tougher, as it was designed originally for the velocities of the 6.5 Rem Mag.

I have found the 140 CoreLokt to be quite tough itself, but sheds a lot of weight and hence doesn't always exit on deer from a 260. If I wanted to use the 260 on elk, I'd be using a much tougher bullet than the CoreLokt.

I was under the impression the managed recoil loads used dedicated bullets with jacket thickness similar to those for the single shot pistol stuff? I think the .30 cal stuff uses a flat nose 30-30 slug but have not seen the rounds in person.

Teh 06 managed recoil uses a plain old 125 grain Corelokt.. I disassembled some of the various ones.. and the powder was consistently IMR 4198.. or else looked just like it and also had the exact same MV you would get with a charge of the same weight...