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If it's got a bolt on it you haven"t hunted enough.

Im not that big of a showboat to show off my custom 260's that are built on Rem 7600's & 742s!

hamr56,

I would think you would more often get tighter groups if you had a premium barrel on it for the most part. You may get lucky and get a standard rifle to shoot hot groups and oftentimes you'd find out that a premium barrel will be a dud too! But I'd bet that with a premium barrel you will get better groups more often than not. Goos luck with this excellent round!

Todd,

Nice rifle you got!

Todd, thats kind of where my Model 7 is heading, except in a Lone Wolf stock, and an ultralight contour Pac-Npr, and a graphite black paint job...

If the action the origional poster has is some flavor of Remmy, then there you go...

Dan dont forget to ask for the short shank from Pacnor! Mine is a mountain contour with a 3in shank, more metal in the shank than in the rest of the barrel. Might also look at Wildcat Composite stocks for the M7, bit slimmer overall than the banser and stronger than the lone wolf.

I would take my Sako Model 75 Finnlight with my Kahles 3.5x10 scope. Great handling and great shooter. My first 260 was a Ruger Compact that I could not get used to. Traded that for a Kimber Montana. Uggh! Feeding problems and only a fair shooter. Traded the Kimber for the Sako and have never looked back.

Kevin

my friend has a Sako 75 SS in 260 that shoots excellent. Very nice rifle

I like the THEN photo, better than the NOW set up...

I own 2 Ruger 77 Mk 2s in Stainless and one factory Rem VLS in 260.

Best advise I can give is to make sure than you get a barrel with a one in 8 twist over the one in 9. The one in 8 will stabilize any bullet weight readily available in 6.5 mm.

the one in 9 twist are only good for weights to 129/130 grains consistently...some one in 9s will shoot 140 grain bullets, and some won't.. but all will shoot in a one in 8 twist...

I am also going to do a 260 Barrel on a Model 70 short action.. but that is because it has a poor shooting 243 barrel on it..and I love Model 70s...

if it would have had a one in 8 twist, to me the ultimate factory 260 would have been the Model 700 Mountain Rifle in Stainless with a 24 inch barrel.

a short action Model 70 Featherweight would also be a nice rig...

i would grab a RRA AR10 receiver set and build yourself a nice 260. jewel trigger and a premium barrel with good glass would have the whole package in your price range... if you want more just get another upper..... or you could do a wssm upper on a RRA AR15 platform in a 6.5 which would rival the 260. mag constraints could leave you in the 120 class bullets, maybe 130's. i am not sure on that....

at least consider AR platform. they do work and do shoot... especially in all the roles you ask for...

JMO

woofer

Hey Hamr,

If you are interested in the custom route, I have a 30" Lilja 3 groove 1 in 8 twist light weight barrel that I was going to do the same with but my mountain rifle just shoots to good. I was going to build on a titanium receiver. If you have any interest in my barrel give me shout back. The muzzle diameter at 30" is .598" so it is a fairly light contoured barrel.

Of the 30 or so rifles in 260 that I have had around over the past 11 years, I don't recall any Remington factory barrels that wouldn't shoot 140 grain bullets into good groups. I don't see any particular need for any bullets weighing over 140 grains in 260, since the 125 and 140 grain Partitions should penetrate as well as a cup & core soft point bullets weighing up to 160 grains. If you look into it, I believe that the only practical reason that Norma still loads a 156 grain bullet in the 6.5x55 is because a bullet of that weight is required to qualify the 6.5x55 as a moose cartridge in Scandinavia, due to the formula that they use to determine such things.

Remember that the 1st rifle that Remington offered in 260 was the 24" 700 BDL DM stainless synthetic and it was failure in the market, but I don't know whether its failure was more related to the barrel length/contour or the fact that it was a DM configuration. There have been plenty of 24" take-off barrels from these rifles for sale on the secondary market over the past 10 years, several of which I have bought myself to use for 6.5-284 conversions. I think that the 700 LSS MR in its factory configuration is pretty close to a perfect vehicle for the 260. I doubt that an additional 2" of barrel length would gain more than 100 fps and under most field conditions, 100 fps isn't a meaningful performance component, or at least it seems so to me.

Heck, if you can't kill whatever you're shooting with a 260 and an appropriate bullet in the 120 to 130 grain range, you probably need a larger or more powerful cartridge and bullet combination.

Jeff

thats fine I like it NOW and THEN, but I live in the NOW and am very happy

For the type of shooting described (long-range coyote, targets, etc.), I would run a Rem MTN Rifle in the standard laminated stock, but get it rebarrelled with a heavier contour at 24 inches.

If you don't want to mess with custom, I would simply buy the Limited Edition stainless fluted CDL that Remington offered for 2008, which looks nice and has a 24" barrel.

For a real tough hunting rifle, I would try to find a Ruger stainless synthetic.