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With all of my handloading stuff in storage until I buy my next house, the ebd of deer season finds me running low on loaded rounds for my .260.
With an eye towards harvesting brass to load, what is available in a decent factory deer hunting load. Most of what I see available online is the Horny 130 ELD-M or the emington cor-lokt 140
Been using a 120 Ballistic Tip over Varget for a couple of years, and it's a great hunting load
I have other rifle and load options, but everyone in the family likes to use this rifle
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The ELD-M is a target bullet.
https://www.hornady.com/bullets/eld-match#!/
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The eldm kills the holy hell out of animals. Don't listen to stevie, he's never done a thing in life except bi tch (and fantasize about dogs).
I'd go with the eldm loading, if you're OK with reloading hornady brass.
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I would use the ELD-M and not worry at all.
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127 gr Barnes TTSX or LRX would also be good in a 260.
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Barnes 120 TTSXLink is to Midway
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Per midway, hornady 39.99 vs 57.99.....eldm all the way.
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I shoot the Barnes 120gr TTSX loaded ammo. Been saving the brass to load my own duplicate load when the time comes.
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Per midway, hornady 39.99 vs 57.99.....eldm all the way. Gibsons sporting goods, Weatherford TX has the Horny 130 eld-m for ~$31.95 or so per box. 5 boxes, tax and shipping sets me back $171 or so Just ordered them. Online page indicated 40 units available Check Ammoseek...
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Per midway, hornady 39.99 vs 57.99.....eldm all the way. Gibsons sporting goods, Weatherford TX has the Horny 130 eld-m for ~$31.95 or so per box. 5 boxes, tax and shipping sets me back $171 or so Just ordered them. Online page indicated 40 units available Check Ammoseek... Hush!
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How many rounds do you need? I only have 9 rounds loaded for my rifle so that means I can only shoot 9 deer this year.
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How many rounds do you need? I only have 9 rounds loaded for my rifle so that means I can only shoot 9 deer this year. Since Saturday morning this rifle has been used by 2 people to take 3 deer and 2 coyotes. This one gets used more than about anything else in the lock-up... And I used my 25-06 And I actually have 8 rounds left loaded with the ballistic tips. 6 with the 129 inter-lock. Never bothered me a bit to have ammo on hand
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Those are some good pics. Looks like a good year...
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Those are some good pics. Looks like a good year... That last mulie looks more like 1978 than 2023...
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Most of my 260 Handloads are stamped 308 Winchester on the bottom...
I get plenty 308 range pick up brass at the range.. it necks down just fine.. and is an endless no cost supply for me..
you don't have anyone who will reload it for you? maybe with alittle money changing hands?
I can't even think about 31.00 a box, or $1.50 each time ya pull the trigger...
Each round I shoot, costs me over 50 cents a trigger pull, but probably way under 75 cents..
If I am shooting at 2500 fps, and using Blue Dot, then under 50 cents a round...especially with Hornady bullets, bought and saved from when they were way cheaper.... and the same with Large rifle primers... bought when the price was $15 to $18 a brick....
Stocked up well under Trump...
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The ELD-M is a target bullet./ Yep. that.....grin What a fraud. Stunt shooting! Lol I stand by the "M" in eldm stands for murder...
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Most of my 260 Handloads are stamped 308 Winchester on the bottom...
I get plenty 308 range pick up brass at the range.. it necks down just fine.. and is an endless no cost supply for me..
you don't have anyone who will reload it for you? maybe with alittle money changing hands?
I can't even think about 31.00 a box, or $1.50 each time ya pull the trigger...
Each round I shoot, costs me over 50 cents a trigger pull, but probably way under 75 cents..
If I am shooting at 2500 fps, and using Blue Dot, then under 50 cents a round...especially with Hornady bullets, bought and saved from when they were way cheaper.... and the same with Large rifle primers... bought when the price was $15 to $18 a brick....
Stocked up well under Trump... Got ya beat depending what I'm shooting. Free bullets, free powder, and almost 4 bricks of primers yet that cost me 1.25 cents per round. Can shoot almost 10 times cheaper than current 22 pricing. But my free bullet stash from way back is running much slimmer than it was.
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Fire form .243- - - -even less work than necking down .308.
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Plenty of people are killed every year with hammers. Doesn't mean that's what they were designed to do efficiently.
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Might as well get the Creedmoor Probably. I have a 260...but won't be getting another. I wanted a 6mm Creedmoure in a Ruger light weight ar10.
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Fire form .243- - - -even less work than necking down .308. ^^^ And you don't have to deal with the thicker neck of the .308.
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The ELD-M is a target bullet.
https://www.hornady.com/bullets/eld-match#!/ So is the 6.5 123 grain Scenar but it's accurate and kills the schit out of stuff too.
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Might as well get the Creedmoor I’ve read there gay LOL
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A good all around bullet that I use in both my 260 and an AI version is they Sierra 107 HP, it has a decent BC and is light enough to get some good velocity. I use them for everything from Chipmunks to Triceratops. Heck they work great in all my other 6.5 variations.
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Fire form .243- - - -even less work than necking down .308. ^^^ And you don't have to deal with the thicker neck of the .308. 243 brass is bad about having the dreaded donut. Some 308 brass is a bit thick in the neck notably Federal. However I have never had a problem using 308 brass to make 260 brass.
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Plenty of people are killed every year with hammers. Doesn't mean that's what they were designed to do efficiently. You don't think they were designed to kill? FROM HORNADY'S OWN WEBSITE "The 147 gr. ELD Match bullet with Heat Shield tip delivers excellent terminal performance and results in higher retained velocities, less drop, less wind drift, and more energy on target." You would be wrong. Shocker....... Lots of people don't know s hit.
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All I could find locally in 260 last year was the Sig Elite Hunter in 130 grain. Supposedly it’s a coated Sierra Tipped Game King bullet with a yellow tip made for Sig. They were accurate and good killers on whitetail.
If I could get ELDM that’s what I’d use. Those have been fantastic through my 6.5 and 30 cals.
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Some of us did the .260 before there was a .260.
Unless the chamber had a tight neck .308 brass necked down worked fine.
YMMV
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Cry once, buy Lapua brass or ammo that uses it (Berger or Lapua ammo).
My first 260 has a touch over half it's barrel life left, & the first 200 crap cases I started with have had it.
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Plenty of people are killed every year with hammers. Doesn't mean that's what they were designed to do efficiently. You don't think they were designed to kill? FROM HORNADY'S OWN WEBSITE "The 147 gr. ELD Match bullet with Heat Shield tip delivers excellent terminal performance and results in higher retained velocities, less drop, less wind drift, and more energy on target." You would be wrong. Shocker....... Lots of people don't know s hit. You're they kind of guy used car salesman love.
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Plenty of people are killed every year with hammers. Doesn't mean that's what they were designed to do efficiently. You don't think they were designed to kill? FROM HORNADY'S OWN WEBSITE "The 147 gr. ELD Match bullet with Heat Shield tip delivers excellent terminal performance and results in higher retained velocities, less drop, less wind drift, and more energy on target." You would be wrong. Shocker....... Lots of people don't know s hit. You're they kind of guy used car salesman love. Why? Because I've actually killed animals with eldm's? Or is it because the eldm is almost exactly the same bullet as the eldx except cheaper? But the fudds insist that you must only use "hunting" bullets to hunt, even though the manufacturer provides information (including 10% ballistic gelatin tests per fbi protocol) that prove what the dam bullets do in tissue. Ya, but I'm the sucker lol. Get back back in the "I don't know s hit" lane...
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I've had good luck with Berger's factory ammo. When I first started buying it, they were loading the 130gr Hybrid and the 136gr Scenar L. I seem to recall a 140gr load also, but can't find a box laying about that would verify that. They have also since dropped the 136gr load. Seems the 6.5 Creedmoor's popularity outshone the .260. I've only taken one deer with the 136gr load, but I have no qualms about using either bullet on game, even if they are "target" bullets. And the cool part is you get once fired Lapua brass when you are done. Can't complain about that....
I used to get it from Bruno's (on sale) for something stupid like $25 a box....Won't ever see those prices again, not in my lifetime.
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Might as well get the Creedmoor At any normal deer hunting range the .260 would work as well. I had a 6.5 Creedmoor in a Savage 16 Weather Warrior for a while. It was accurate enough but would not feed smoothly. I sold it to a girl at our church and got new price. My daughter-in-law was talking about getting a Creedmoor and I advised her to get .260 Rem. or a .243W since I am set up to load for those two and I traded off the Creedmoor dies and brass. Seems like anything on the .308 case is accurate and feeds smoothly.
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