New .260

[704]

New rifle I am, working on I just skim bed it and duracoat it, waiting for scope base, stainless Remington 700 action, bolt trued, lugs lapped. It has a Kreiger spiral fluted barrel with a 1/8 twist. 24" long with a standard Palma contour. Stock is a manners mcs gat with two flush cups, a swivel on the forearm and a badger ordnance mini chassis. Caliber .260





I need to find some good loads now for the 1/8 barrel

 

[Korhil78]

Looks really good. I bet it will shoot.

 

[Zep]

Looks Great! - Congratulations!. 260 will be my next rifle if I can get components. I am looking forward to following this thread.

It would be nice to see some loads for the 123 grain Lapua Scenar using H4350 and Lapua brass. I know that is not a hunting bullet but I would also like to use the rifle for longer range paper punching.

 

[timmymic]

Wish they made that action in lefty gun looks awesome!!!

 

[704]

I am still having a hard time figuring what color to paint the stock, something that goes with the stainless, I settled for now on the dark earth.
I am contemplating painting the stainless black?

any ideas out there

 

[Zep]

I like my girls without makeup. That rifle looks badass the way it is, I think that is one of the reasons I like the looks of it so much. Bad, Bad, Bad!!

 

[fmajor]

Sweet looking stick!

I've really interested in the MCS GAT stock as well. How is the length-of-"pull" to the trigger? What's she weigh all-up?

 

[704]

could not resist, I used my true grass cammo

 

[Zep]

I like it!! - Now go out and get it dirty and report back with said results.

 

[704]

finished jeweling the bolt

 

[trigger puller]

We just started load development for 123 SMKs and Varget. While Varget is not the best powder we have ALOT of it is showing real promise @ 39.0 W/ BR2s groups in the 3s have not shot over chrono yet but will post when I do. Nice buid like the camo

 

[captacademy]

Super sweet rifle!

 

[ToKeepAndBear]

Lapua brass, 142 smk, and 43gr H4350 is a shooter in my TRG! Modest velocity at 2750fps, easy on brass, and it is very consistent.

Very nice rifle you have there!

 

[704]

I resized some 7mm 08 brass, man was that easy

I loaded 3 different loads
h1000
4831
varget

Berger 140 VLDs, can't seat them deep,
though I need to play with the Seating

I will give them a try as soon as my base gets here