Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles what do you use a 260 rem m7 with 18.5" barrel for ?

AS long as you shoot the Hornady 129gr SP out of Pete's gun, it will kill deer just fine. I've shot deer from 20' to nearly 250yds with my 18.5" barreled 260 and deer do nothing but die. One shot, one kill.

I have the Seven 18.5" in 260. It has killed plenty of deer, but it isn't as flat as a 243 or whack 'em as hard as an -06. It does carry nicely however, especially if you hollow out the buttstock.

I have had very poor results with the factory 140 grain CoreLokts (don't open wide and don't penetrate well). Everything else has worked fine.

shoot it, shoot it more, shoot it more often

7-08 is where its at...........

Thank me later.........

It's a perfect gun for shooting the field mice that run across your sleeping bag at night.

.............Must have BIG field mice in Missouri then!

a btt, to ask for an efficient load for 120 bt's outta the short barrel.
was thinking of starting with varget, but ?

any suggestions ?

............Given the same cartridge, you load for a short barrel the same as you would for the longer one.

Like any rifle, your rifle will pick its choice of best powders.

i can see that.
this is the shortest barreled rifle i have owned so i had to ask.

when the dies get here, i was gonna load, a fast, medium, and slow powder, all other things being equal cept the powders and see what the groups told me.

I have owned many model 7's from 308, 7mm-08, 260 and 243. Two were stainless sythetics and others were blue older 18.5" wood guns. I provided a little TLC on some( adjust trigger to 2.5 lbs, glass in the recoil lug, some a complete glass job as needed) all were MOA rifles.

Here in South Carolina I do most of my hunting in a protable tree stand. From a tree climbing stand 30' in the air, these rifles are priceless. Just great handling and just as quick aquisition of target.

Favorite pet load of the 260 remington on two earlier wood model 7's:

46 grs Hoddon 4350
WLR primers
120 gr Nosler Ballistic tip
OAL 2.790
Av velocity 2785 (18.5")
Remington brass ( all same lot)

Group average .361"

Again that little bit of TLC comes into play. (no Metal work)

With that load, every well placed shot has taken even the largest bucks, largest 185 lbs. My favorite shot is a high front shoulder. Lights are out before he hits the ground. Double lung shots have resulted in short distance tracks with plenty of blood.

So to sum up. Any short barrel gun is priceless in a portable climbing tree stand. Remington has always been a relatively easy rifle to tune even for the non pro. And finally shot placement is by far the greatest factor in a sucessful harvest.

i got the rifle all gussied up now.
took the tasco scope off and put a simmons 2-7 on, took the syn. stock off, and replaced it with a laminated one, which btw, the barrel is floated in this stock, so no bedding yet.
i also, dug out some remington iron sights, and put them back on.
looks kinda cool now.