Yes your Winchester can be reamed up. There might have to be a minor gunsmith surgery with the magazine feedingramp as the 26Nosler has slight bigger body and sharper shoulders.
Pros and cons regarding the .257Wea. When I had my .270Wea made up I was looking very hard on the .257Wea(and .264Win). Here was the few reasons I chose the .270Wea over the .257Wea:
The .257Wea shoots a 117grain bullet @ 3400 ft/sec...so does a .240Wea with a 100grain = 17grain difference...
Good shooting!!.
BTW. I met up with a guy last week in SA who borrowed a Blaser R8 rifle in Botswana for all his hunting up there. He stated it was on of the slickest rifles he had ever shot with.
I have not head of an inaccurate Blaser rifle yet. Love to buy one one day.
Nope...but I am fix´n to :wink:
I am planning a little buffhunt in Africa and with only bringing one rifle(a .378Wea) I want a bullet I can use for a little longrange antilope hunting after buffhunting is over.(If I get the time).
The Barnes 250grainTSX could also become a candidate.
Just returned from Africa using only one rifle....a.270wea loaded up with ABLR.
It is a bullet that is very fragile without directly calling it a varmint bullet. I shot Warthog @ 200m and had no exit. 3 springbok between 200-400meter and exitwounds were quite big compared to a Partition. All...
.270Weatherby for longrange smaller game up to about 150Ibs.
.333Jeffery for everything to elephant.
Each cartridge has its own way to signal what it wants and how to do it by physical apperance.
If it wasn´t for the fact I am leaving for Africa in three days and not knowing how many animals we get to hunt/shoot, I would have really considered this rifle. Just to have one leveraction again this rifle would be a good one...and a rare one.