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The Basics, Starting Out
.308 or 7mm-08 advice
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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 162601" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>The 260 will run a 140 gr A-max bullet out at 2800fps , that has enough "oomph" to kill deer at 1000yds. Now if ground hogs at 300yds in the objective that I'd load a 95gr Hornady V-max , these can be run out at 3300fps easly , that bullet at that speed would make one hell of a mess out of a ground hog.</p><p> </p><p>Now that Nosler has started making the 130gr Accu-Bond , I think that this makes the 260 a very formadable big game round , I would not hesitate shoot big deer maybe even elk if the position is decient with this round.</p><p> </p><p>And like you have seen , ballisticly its hard to beat it. The 260 Ai would offer about another 100fps but in my oppinion its not worth the hassel of fire forming loads and wasting barrel life.</p><p> </p><p>I'm a die hard fan of the 308 and still think its an awsome round for accuracy and even some long range work and personaly feel that anybody that starts out shooting LR with a 308 has alot better respect for accurate range and wind estimation. Now that I have this 260 up and running it making my 308's take a back seat , its just to hard to argue with accuracy in the .3's consistanly that shoots way flatter and hit harder than the 308 at 1000yds and does it with less recoil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 162601, member: 8843"] The 260 will run a 140 gr A-max bullet out at 2800fps , that has enough "oomph" to kill deer at 1000yds. Now if ground hogs at 300yds in the objective that I'd load a 95gr Hornady V-max , these can be run out at 3300fps easly , that bullet at that speed would make one hell of a mess out of a ground hog. Now that Nosler has started making the 130gr Accu-Bond , I think that this makes the 260 a very formadable big game round , I would not hesitate shoot big deer maybe even elk if the position is decient with this round. And like you have seen , ballisticly its hard to beat it. The 260 Ai would offer about another 100fps but in my oppinion its not worth the hassel of fire forming loads and wasting barrel life. I'm a die hard fan of the 308 and still think its an awsome round for accuracy and even some long range work and personaly feel that anybody that starts out shooting LR with a 308 has alot better respect for accurate range and wind estimation. Now that I have this 260 up and running it making my 308's take a back seat , its just to hard to argue with accuracy in the .3's consistanly that shoots way flatter and hit harder than the 308 at 1000yds and does it with less recoil. [/QUOTE]
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