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Which Action for Long Range .260 Rem?
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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 3030375" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>what idaho lefty says about the needmoor is the truth and there is no practical difference between it and the 260 ,I shoot highpower with a 260 and have since 1998 and shoot about 2500 rnds a year in matches and at the end of a year I either set the barrel back or stick a new one on because the throat is burnt out so if you want to seat a bullet near the lands it would not be in the case. If you use an internal box magazine you can do a little work and easily fit 260 sami reamer loads in the magazine. I just set my barrel back last week and was checking some 123 mk's which I think have about the same profile as 142'2 and I needed to be 2.850 to contact the lands. I use 140 mk most of the time for long range and when the barrel is fresh they contact at 2.795. I went to a ruger precision rifle about 8 years ago because we shoot rapid fire and are allowed scopes so before scope for rapid fire I used a m70 and loaded with stripper clips which worked just fine but this won't work with a scope in the way so I bought a rpr and promptly took the barrel off and put a 260 barrel on it because I have lots of brass for 260, 243 brass works fine 308 brass works fine, and I have a 260 reamer and put my own barrels on and more importantly I have shot close to 100,000 rnds competing with a 260 and have a pretty good idea what will work in the rifle and I hate load delelopment, I just put the same load in and go to a match and if I think the x count isn't high enough I will change it a little and try it in the next match. If you are not familiar with highpower it is not bench rest, it is all position shooting,the rifle cannot touch the ground or any supporting device it has to be supported by the shooters body a sling is used to stabilize the rifle so my way of shooting loads at a match would not work for benchrest or fclass which is bench rest on your belly. Go get one of these ruger precision rifles you will not be dissapointed or get a new m700 rem and steal the action for a rifle you can put together yourself, use a savage style nut on the remington and buy a prefit it will shoot just as well as a custom fit barrel. The rpr uses a barrel nut so you can put your own barrel on it you will need a AR15 wrench and headspace gauge. just think pessimistacally about how something could get in the way and give you a false reading on the headspace gauge then check with a nogo gauge and see that the action will not close then go set it on a tire and pull the trigger with a string and if it shoots fine and the case comes out looking normall you probably did fine. Some of the best gunsmiths do this test firing , I don't I just take it to a match and shoot but maybe I should shoot it with a string it couldn't hurt. The last new rem 700 I got was 475 dollars and beautifull the face where the barrel fits was surface ground and every thing was straight and smooth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 3030375, member: 116633"] what idaho lefty says about the needmoor is the truth and there is no practical difference between it and the 260 ,I shoot highpower with a 260 and have since 1998 and shoot about 2500 rnds a year in matches and at the end of a year I either set the barrel back or stick a new one on because the throat is burnt out so if you want to seat a bullet near the lands it would not be in the case. If you use an internal box magazine you can do a little work and easily fit 260 sami reamer loads in the magazine. I just set my barrel back last week and was checking some 123 mk's which I think have about the same profile as 142'2 and I needed to be 2.850 to contact the lands. I use 140 mk most of the time for long range and when the barrel is fresh they contact at 2.795. I went to a ruger precision rifle about 8 years ago because we shoot rapid fire and are allowed scopes so before scope for rapid fire I used a m70 and loaded with stripper clips which worked just fine but this won't work with a scope in the way so I bought a rpr and promptly took the barrel off and put a 260 barrel on it because I have lots of brass for 260, 243 brass works fine 308 brass works fine, and I have a 260 reamer and put my own barrels on and more importantly I have shot close to 100,000 rnds competing with a 260 and have a pretty good idea what will work in the rifle and I hate load delelopment, I just put the same load in and go to a match and if I think the x count isn't high enough I will change it a little and try it in the next match. If you are not familiar with highpower it is not bench rest, it is all position shooting,the rifle cannot touch the ground or any supporting device it has to be supported by the shooters body a sling is used to stabilize the rifle so my way of shooting loads at a match would not work for benchrest or fclass which is bench rest on your belly. Go get one of these ruger precision rifles you will not be dissapointed or get a new m700 rem and steal the action for a rifle you can put together yourself, use a savage style nut on the remington and buy a prefit it will shoot just as well as a custom fit barrel. The rpr uses a barrel nut so you can put your own barrel on it you will need a AR15 wrench and headspace gauge. just think pessimistacally about how something could get in the way and give you a false reading on the headspace gauge then check with a nogo gauge and see that the action will not close then go set it on a tire and pull the trigger with a string and if it shoots fine and the case comes out looking normall you probably did fine. Some of the best gunsmiths do this test firing , I don't I just take it to a match and shoot but maybe I should shoot it with a string it couldn't hurt. The last new rem 700 I got was 475 dollars and beautifull the face where the barrel fits was surface ground and every thing was straight and smooth. [/QUOTE]
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