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260 Rem Brass Question's
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1303576" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>If you can't find 260 Rem cases you can always make them easily. Run a 308 Win case into a full length 260 Rem size die. The neck length will be just a tad shorter than the 260 trim to length but it works OK and will lengthen with a couple firings. Run a 243 Win case into the sizing die and you will have a perfect length case. My buddie got one of the first Rem 700s in 260 Rem to hit the market. You could not find any loaded ammo and NO CASES were even on the market yet. We experimented with different cases and found that Remington 243 cases made the most accurate ammo. There was not even any load data out at the time so we treated it as a wildcat and from that we came up with H4350 as the best powder at that time. We used both 120 and 140 gr Sierra SP bullets and they shot bug holes and we used this rifle doing crop damage control that year and killed 50 deer from on top of us out to a little over 500 yards and only had 1 to move out of it's tracks and it did go but 3 jumps. In my experience any 6.5 caliber with the proper bullets is a real deer killer. Good luck and have fun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1303576, member: 10178"] If you can't find 260 Rem cases you can always make them easily. Run a 308 Win case into a full length 260 Rem size die. The neck length will be just a tad shorter than the 260 trim to length but it works OK and will lengthen with a couple firings. Run a 243 Win case into the sizing die and you will have a perfect length case. My buddie got one of the first Rem 700s in 260 Rem to hit the market. You could not find any loaded ammo and NO CASES were even on the market yet. We experimented with different cases and found that Remington 243 cases made the most accurate ammo. There was not even any load data out at the time so we treated it as a wildcat and from that we came up with H4350 as the best powder at that time. We used both 120 and 140 gr Sierra SP bullets and they shot bug holes and we used this rifle doing crop damage control that year and killed 50 deer from on top of us out to a little over 500 yards and only had 1 to move out of it's tracks and it did go but 3 jumps. In my experience any 6.5 caliber with the proper bullets is a real deer killer. Good luck and have fun. [/QUOTE]
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