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.264 is an excellent caliber and reloading components can be had pretty easy. .264 mag seems kind of obscure and outdated. If you want magnum performance while sticking with .264 caliber I’d go 6.5 PRC or 6.5 SAUM.

I’m sure I could mess with it but my BACO was horrid with them.

I have a Winchester M70, Extreme Weather model, in .264 WM. It is a great rifle.

E-tips or ballistic tips?? Switch to mag pro you will thank me later. Pard

ETips..

4350 and 130s. I was running 56 grains I think. It was kinda hot and tore the heck out of deer.
Also, reloader 22 and a 140 berger. 61.0 grains. That thing was nasty.

Work up, that 264 has some pressure!

Also, h1000 is a good powder. Any 4831 will do it with heavies, but 4350 should be your go to with 120s or 130s.

I have one in a 700 cdl sf I bought nearly 20 years ago. It shoots well and I've killed some decent bucks with it. My favorite powder for 264 is imr 7828. It works great with 140g bullets at 3200 fps. It will drive 130s to about 3350 and 120s to 3470 or so.

Bb

I bought a Winchester .264 Magnum Westerner (M-70) back in 1960. It had a (IIRC) a 26" stainless steel barrel that had a black oxide finish except the muzzle, which was left in the white signifying SS. It had a two diameter chamber throat, with the bullets at bore diameter just ahead of the bullet cannelure, while the base of the bullet was full diameter. That allowed the cartridges to be seated out full specified length, without crowding. However those bullets were sold as components only by Winchester, but the rifle worked fine with other brands especially Sierra. It was my most accurate rifle of the day, and shot just under 1MOA with any balanced load. Varmints either disappeared or were disassembled when hit.

While I still have the RCBS die set, I really should have kept that rifle (where have you heard that before?).

Great stories about the old 264 fellas.

My .264 magnum just happens to be headstamped 6.5-300 WBY. 🤣

Mine is a Westerner with the 26" SS/Iron coated barrel. Consistently, boringly, sub MOA. I use RL33 and 130AB's. 3250ish.

Its got more panache for a deer hunt out west than just about anything else I can think of.

Yeah, that’s about as awesome as it gets for a western deer getter.

Awwwwww, too bad it's not a 6.5 Nosler

Remington 140 gr .264's are 2 diameter also as well as the 140 ww. When you buy.new rem or ww ammo your still getting those 2 dia bullets. Lol go buy a box of Remington factory 140 gr 6.5 Creedmoor ammo yup same bullets..mb

The 264WM is a superb caliber, likely my all time favorite round. I killed a bunch of game in the early 2000s with a Remington 700 Classic and Sako Deluxe. Both have 24” barrels. I did shoot the barrel out of another 264 that I own using 95gr Vmax bullets on prairie dogs. It’s a wicked combo!

As of late, I’ve switched to a 7mm magnum. No real reason other than I can shoot a 160-175gr bullet on Moose, Bear, bull elk, etc.

You can’t go wrong with a 264WM paired with a 140gr accubond, partition or Hornady interlock.

But then I’d have to shoot unobtainium Nosler Partitions, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You guys are rekindling my yearning for a 264. For years I wanted one. Then settled down and wanted a 6.5 Rem. Never got closer than a 6.5-06.

The step up to the 264…you won’t be sorry!