Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 260 Rem Almost gone ?

I hope the 260 doesn't go away.
I have not had the chance to own one yet, but I kind of see the 260 as a 6.5X55 in a slightly more compact package.
What's not to like about that??

i agree that the 260 is on borrowed time. the sales of that round in my area is dismal at best. too bad, as it is a great deer cartridge, well suited for the ladies and kids, not to mention men.

I'm kinda surprised at this.Judging from the play the 260 gets on here,I'd have thought it was a lot more popular and doing quite well.....

COULD IT BE???........that the Campfire is not necessarily a barometer of all things gunny? I think we're a sub-cult in the community of gun owners and rifle shooters.Maybe?

He's useing 45gr R-19 and a Federal primer. Seating depth is .010 off contact. Chono's just short of 2800.

Now Dober don't be calling us Southern Boys names just because some of us still like the 336/35Rem combo. Its a darn fine combo in the thickets for bear, deer and hogs.

I have never owned a .260 Rem but I think it is a much better round for begainers that a .243 Win. I would hate to see it fade away.

Absolutely we are a sub-cult and the purchasers of the new cartridge introductions. Does the Walmart customer really care about the new Wissums, a blown out 375 Ruger case, or the Ruger RCM's...I think not.

Doc

I don't have a dog in this fight but how in the world could 2 rounds that are so similar and one provide both HIGHER velocities and LOWER recoil with the same bullet weight. I think I hear Isaac Newton rolling over to hear the answer

No doubt it is Cole, the 336/35 is the first rifle I ever carried after deer. Lets see, that was in 1971....man that seems like a long butt time ago.



Dober

I'm disappointed to see the 260 not doing better than it is, because it is far more useful than any of the dozen or so short & long magnums introduced recently.

As my handle shows, I think the world of the 7-08. But I think that for a deer and antelope gun, the 260 gets the nod (based only on its performance on about 6 critters.) I just like what I have been able to accomplish with the 100 gr bullets from the 260. If elk enter the picture, then I want something larger than a 7-08 anyway (but don't tell that to the cow elk my 13 year-old son shot this year with 7-08).

I think both cartridges should be more popular than they are. I suspect that a whole lot of one-box-a year shooters would do better if they had either of them than the 30-06s they are carrying.

If this is true, and I would not find it that hard to believe, it would be due to lower charge weight and/or lower muzzle pressure due to the higher expansion ratio of the 7-08.

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Dober, the 336/35 was also the first rifle I ever carried deer huntin'. Dad, God bless his soul, had to work and couldn't hunt so I took his rifle. Lets see now what year was that ... it was in 1964. And that was a long time and lot of rifles ago. But I still have his 336/35.

You know I might ought to get a .260 for my grandson just case he does not like the No. 1-A .257 Roberts I bought for 3 years ago. He not but 3 so I guess I can play with it until he is old enough.

Heck, if my grandson (Austin, he's 8) didn't like a #1/Roberts 1A I'd trade him in.........

Dober

Maybe it would have been better if they had called it a 26-08 or 6.5-08 or something. The 6mm Rem was just a 244 Rem with a new twist (sorry about that, I couldn't resist). Maybe this is the year to introduce it as such. It is not without precedence.

Of course we also had the 280, 7mm Express and the 7/06 or whatever else it was called...<g>

Once a company starts with the name changes it's a good sign that the round is about TU.

Dober

The name change thing is a bad idea. The round will stay around with us rifle looney hunters and F class types. I have one built on a 77 action but a Ti of ss seven at a good price would be hard to pass up.

It's the 6.5 curse. 6.5 rem mag, 264 win mag and now 260 rem. If there wasn't a ton of swede mausers brought in the 6.5x55 would be there also. It never wowed the hunter market. Learned riflemen know it's advantages. Logically, the 6.5-284 should be the go to hunting round but once the bench boys move on to a new fad it will also fade away.

F class guys and other bench shooters will revise the names enough without the help of manufacturers. A 6.5x59 AI GrenTubb would be popular tomorrow if it won a championship or set a record. (Just kidding....no, but really)

Will this slow down with the push for the 6.5x47? The .264 bore is great for tactical, shoots flatter than the .30 unless you jump up to a .300mag or bigger and with a bunch less recoil as well. Second advantage is plenty of weight to take down steel, something the heavy .223 will sometimes fail to do.

Im saving for a Sturg in an AI chassis and was going to go with the .260 but might go with the 6.5x47 with the Lapua brass out.

Let's see- the .260, the 6.5, the 5mm Rem Mag, the SAUMs, the .280/7mm Express (now trying to rise from the dead), and some others I'm forgetting- How many more duds can Big Green come up with?