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264 win mag vs. 6.5x284
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<blockquote data-quote="lloydsmale" data-source="post: 820391" data-attributes="member: 41442"><p>everytime a post comes out about the 264 people hint that if you dont have at least a 26 inch barrel its useless. Ive got a 24 inch barreled hawkeye. Its no tack driver. typical ruger it took a ton of load developemnt to find a couple good loads that shoot moa. It will push a 140 to 3200fps and a 130 to just over 3300. thats about everything your going to get out of a 7mag and alot more then a 270! I know that this is a long range fourm and some here want the absolute most velocity out of there guns. But that 24 inch 264 is a deer killing machine and its fairly light and handy to carry. I also had a 24 inch vanguard 257 and now have a cdl in 257 with a 26 inch barrel and it gives about 75 fps differnce and the same is about the differnce in my 300 wby 24 inch and 26 inch guns. I dont think any load in any one of those guns goes more then a 100 fps faster then in the longer barrel. Alot of this predudice came from the old days when 4350 was considered slow and 4831 was the mag powder. Now with modern powders many rounds considered overbore are far from it. Same goes with barrel life. The 264 had a bad rap for years. Im sure if you run something like 4350 at 60k its going to eat barrels for lunch. that and the fact that most factory ammo for it was ww ammo and they used ball powders at those burning speeds and thats just more of a barrel burning recipe. Id bet the differnce in barrel life between the 264 and the 7mag is but a couple boxes of shells if you load properly and if you load your 264 with powders like re25, 7828, h1000 ect its going to last longer then a 6.5x284 thats loaded with re17 or 4350 ect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lloydsmale, post: 820391, member: 41442"] everytime a post comes out about the 264 people hint that if you dont have at least a 26 inch barrel its useless. Ive got a 24 inch barreled hawkeye. Its no tack driver. typical ruger it took a ton of load developemnt to find a couple good loads that shoot moa. It will push a 140 to 3200fps and a 130 to just over 3300. thats about everything your going to get out of a 7mag and alot more then a 270! I know that this is a long range fourm and some here want the absolute most velocity out of there guns. But that 24 inch 264 is a deer killing machine and its fairly light and handy to carry. I also had a 24 inch vanguard 257 and now have a cdl in 257 with a 26 inch barrel and it gives about 75 fps differnce and the same is about the differnce in my 300 wby 24 inch and 26 inch guns. I dont think any load in any one of those guns goes more then a 100 fps faster then in the longer barrel. Alot of this predudice came from the old days when 4350 was considered slow and 4831 was the mag powder. Now with modern powders many rounds considered overbore are far from it. Same goes with barrel life. The 264 had a bad rap for years. Im sure if you run something like 4350 at 60k its going to eat barrels for lunch. that and the fact that most factory ammo for it was ww ammo and they used ball powders at those burning speeds and thats just more of a barrel burning recipe. Id bet the differnce in barrel life between the 264 and the 7mag is but a couple boxes of shells if you load properly and if you load your 264 with powders like re25, 7828, h1000 ect its going to last longer then a 6.5x284 thats loaded with re17 or 4350 ect. [/QUOTE]
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