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<blockquote data-quote="Ronald W Schaefer" data-source="post: 1665045" data-attributes="member: 109378"><p>I have both, a 6.5 CM in Fierce Firearms that is a stupid accurate rifle and a .260 in Sako 85 Grey Wolf...also a tack driver...superior in fact for a "stock" rig. I get about 100 FPS more out of the .260 and a bit more accuracy out of the 6.5CM. I shoot 142 Nosler ABLR out of both and that bullet has a better ballistics coefficient and sectional density than the 140 gr .270 Win. at about the same velocity. Not too many on this thread would cite the .270 as too light for Elk, so I'd say use your .264 rig like you would a .270 and you should be fine...assuming your load gets you 2800 fps out of that ~140 bullet. I've been experimenting with 150 ELD-X and 156 Oryx....jury is still out. Btw, wife killed Gemsbok, Sable Antelope, and Wildebeast in Africa last month using a Weatherby Camilla rifle, 20" bbl in a 7mm-08 shooting 145 Barnes LRX at 2700 fps...one shot kills at 100-150 yds, so a few data points there on range and those medium calibers. I'd personally keep all my Elk shots using any of those rifles to about 3-500 yds...but that's just me...and I'd do the same with a .270 Win.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ronald W Schaefer, post: 1665045, member: 109378"] I have both, a 6.5 CM in Fierce Firearms that is a stupid accurate rifle and a .260 in Sako 85 Grey Wolf...also a tack driver...superior in fact for a "stock" rig. I get about 100 FPS more out of the .260 and a bit more accuracy out of the 6.5CM. I shoot 142 Nosler ABLR out of both and that bullet has a better ballistics coefficient and sectional density than the 140 gr .270 Win. at about the same velocity. Not too many on this thread would cite the .270 as too light for Elk, so I'd say use your .264 rig like you would a .270 and you should be fine...assuming your load gets you 2800 fps out of that ~140 bullet. I've been experimenting with 150 ELD-X and 156 Oryx....jury is still out. Btw, wife killed Gemsbok, Sable Antelope, and Wildebeast in Africa last month using a Weatherby Camilla rifle, 20" bbl in a 7mm-08 shooting 145 Barnes LRX at 2700 fps...one shot kills at 100-150 yds, so a few data points there on range and those medium calibers. I'd personally keep all my Elk shots using any of those rifles to about 3-500 yds...but that's just me...and I'd do the same with a .270 Win. [/QUOTE]
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