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Anybody ever hold several different types/weights of .264" bullets in your hand and think, built for killin'?
Been doing this for awhile and having loaded everything from .177" to .375" I can't help but think the .264" caliber is the sexiest killer to ever come down the 'pike............
In particular, I have not been able to shake the thought of a 6lb (all up) .260 AI firing a 130gr Swift Scirocco II............I'm a big fan of the "sleeper" concept!
Let's see, a 700 Ti with light parts, a McMillan Mt. Rifle Edge, Lilja #1 @22", Talley LW's, and a 6x36 w/dots should just about cover it...
A killin' bullet with a B.C. .571, traveling 2950-3000fps, is hard to forget...I think I'll call the package, "Svelte-lana"....!
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It'd be a killing machine 4 sure! But, going "all up" includes some rounds and a sling so don't leave home without them..  Dober
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Not to be macabre, but, as a young kid, I used to repeatedly read a coffee table book about JFK's assasination cover-to-cover. I'll never forget this description regarding Oswald's 6.5mm rifle: "A bullet....less than the width of a pencil...."
Just put the calibers on a pencil: .279"
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6lbs "all up" at the above specs not do-able? I gotta believe it is............
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fremont, there are lots of bullets less than the width of a pencil......Despite the "history", I still think the .264's sexy!
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Even AI'd, 3,000 fps with 130 sciroccos will be a stretch, IMO (22" barrel).. But a 6.5 SAUM... Pour on the coal. 
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Yes. The 6.5s are svelte, lethal looking projectiles, more so than most. I am currently without a 6.5, having traded my last one for a 257 Roberts. Now I hear that voice again, "Dave, Dave, buy me...." 
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Give that Lilja an 8 twist.
6lbs all up I think is doable on the TI frame but will require lots of $.
I like it.
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6.5-284 with 8.5 twist will do the job you're wanting to do. It'll push the 130's at or slightly above 3,000 fps all day long, and look good doing it. I don't see how the .260 could be any more accurate, AI version notwithstanding...
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Xverm--maybe I wasn't clear in what I was saying, all I was saying is "all up" includes rounds in the gun and a sling on it and to include that when your talking weight.
Side note, the 260 AI is a round I'd love to work with but if I were to do it I'd not go with a skinny #1 Lilja (had a #1 Lilja .270 and it was the biggest turkey of a barrel I ever had). No place I can and would hunt from Alaska to Namib would I need a rifle that light. I'll take a few more ounces out front and get the barrel to .6" at the mzl.
But, that's just me and what work for me.
Have you got the project done or in the works? And what you gonna be using it for?
Pics when done please
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Titanium in 7mm-08 AI, 6 lbs 2 oz with 4.5-14x40. With a lightweight scope easily 6 lbs. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/P10100523.JPG)
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Looks nice, but "all up" includes rounds and sling.
What's it weigh naked? 5 lbs?
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Boise built a 6.5x284 on a Ti action just like you are describing IIRC. I think he even uses the Sirroco IIs.
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xverminator,
Cheapest way to lose weight is use a light weight stock to begin with..
Mcmillans aren't necessarily light..
The one shown above by blacktailslayer can be built to come in at around 17oz.
It's a Wildcat stock out of Alberta..
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I did some searching. SU35 built the 6.5x284 and shot the SII's. Boise has similar rifles but built as a 25 WSM and a 284. I followed those builds as I thought if I ever changed my 7-08 TI to something I would follow their blueprint.
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Rancho, your probably right. Let's say 2950fps. That should be doable via a 22 barrel. What's 50fps with a .571 B.C. bullet anyway.....grin!
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I know what you meant............At this point, I'm slowly collecting parts. I've had the action for about 4yrs now. Been trying to decide what to do with it.
Was digging through an old box yesterday, looking for something completely different, when I came across several boxes of .264" bullets from back when I jumped in bed with the .260 Rem. This from I think it was the first or second year that cartridge was introduce.
I don't have one sub 7 lb "all up" rifle and as I held those bullets in my hand a light came on and I remembered my Ti. Yep I think it's time I get reacquainted with the .260 Rem, only in AI this time.............
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Titanium in 7mm-08 AI, 6 lbs 2 oz with 4.5-14x40. With a lightweight scope easily 6 lbs. Very nice, what stock is that? X-VERMINATOR
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That stock is a Wildcat composite from Alberta, it weighs 18.5oz with the swivel studs and recoil pad installed. My rifle also has a Williams steel bottom metal, BDL. You could drop even more weight going with ADL aluminum from PT&G.
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Wildcat Composite...? do they have a website?
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