remingtonman_25_06
Handloader
- Nov 17, 2005
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I just picked up a Ruger M77 MKII stainless/synthetic in .260 Remington, its the older version with the cutout stock that says Ruger.
I've owned and shot several of these rifles in different calibers over the years and found them to be pretty easy to get to shoot under 1" at 100 yards with handloads, hopefully this one is no different.
I figure it could work as a good loaner rifle, or for a beginner or woman, etc. Also be nice for a pack gun if your going to be putting on some miles or if the weather is just downright nasty where I dont wanna take either of my nicely set up Rem 700's with wood/laminate stocks.
I took the vx3, 2.5-8x off my triple deuce for now and put on the 260. Makes for a nice little package...
Im thinking the perfect bullet for my applications will be the 129g SST's. With a BC of .485 at about 2850-2875fps, it will still knock the snot out of deer out to 600 yards and should do the trick on black bear and elk out to 300-400 quite nicely if my 338 EDGE or 7 RM were ever broke.
Powder wise it looks like RL19 is great for both accuracy and velocity according to the nosler manual for 120-130g bullets. I dont really wanna use RL powders cuz of there lot to lot consistency and temperature sensitivity issues. I like to use Hodgons "extreme" line of powders and looking through the burn rate charts I saw that H4350 was real close to RL19 so I figured thats where I"m going to start with load development, 129g SST's and H4350 in RP cases lit by Fed210 primers at an OAL of 2.8" Start at 42g and go to 43.5g in .5g increments and see what happens. QL is predicting 2875fps with this combo from my 22" tube. Even if I can get 3/4"-1" that will be plenty good for what this rifle is going to be used for.
There should be nothing wrong with using 243 brass for the 260 either should there?? Reason I ask is there isn't much in the way of 260 for brass and its a lot more expensive then 243. I figured I could just neck up the 243 and trim it to specs and be done with it?? For the 260 I'm stuck with Rem, which is last on my list, Nosler which is quite expensive IMO, or NORMA which again, is very expensive. I'd rather just buy some winchester 243 or lapua 243 brass and run it thru my 260 FL die and trim if I could. Anyone see anything wrong with going that route??
Only problem I see is getting shells mixed up as I do have and shoot a 243 as well.
I've owned and shot several of these rifles in different calibers over the years and found them to be pretty easy to get to shoot under 1" at 100 yards with handloads, hopefully this one is no different.
I figure it could work as a good loaner rifle, or for a beginner or woman, etc. Also be nice for a pack gun if your going to be putting on some miles or if the weather is just downright nasty where I dont wanna take either of my nicely set up Rem 700's with wood/laminate stocks.
I took the vx3, 2.5-8x off my triple deuce for now and put on the 260. Makes for a nice little package...
Im thinking the perfect bullet for my applications will be the 129g SST's. With a BC of .485 at about 2850-2875fps, it will still knock the snot out of deer out to 600 yards and should do the trick on black bear and elk out to 300-400 quite nicely if my 338 EDGE or 7 RM were ever broke.
Powder wise it looks like RL19 is great for both accuracy and velocity according to the nosler manual for 120-130g bullets. I dont really wanna use RL powders cuz of there lot to lot consistency and temperature sensitivity issues. I like to use Hodgons "extreme" line of powders and looking through the burn rate charts I saw that H4350 was real close to RL19 so I figured thats where I"m going to start with load development, 129g SST's and H4350 in RP cases lit by Fed210 primers at an OAL of 2.8" Start at 42g and go to 43.5g in .5g increments and see what happens. QL is predicting 2875fps with this combo from my 22" tube. Even if I can get 3/4"-1" that will be plenty good for what this rifle is going to be used for.
There should be nothing wrong with using 243 brass for the 260 either should there?? Reason I ask is there isn't much in the way of 260 for brass and its a lot more expensive then 243. I figured I could just neck up the 243 and trim it to specs and be done with it?? For the 260 I'm stuck with Rem, which is last on my list, Nosler which is quite expensive IMO, or NORMA which again, is very expensive. I'd rather just buy some winchester 243 or lapua 243 brass and run it thru my 260 FL die and trim if I could. Anyone see anything wrong with going that route??
Only problem I see is getting shells mixed up as I do have and shoot a 243 as well.