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Talk me out of building 260 ai
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<blockquote data-quote="comfisherman" data-source="post: 2668062" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>Had a 260 in the days before the 6.5 manbun took over the world, was a great well rounded cartridge. With a better marketing team and some better twist/market timing.... could have been big. Was a blued rifle and when I left the high desert it got adopted out.</p><p></p><p>I think I had 100 pieces of lapua brass, a moderate load and don't remember loosing a piece over a comically large amount of firings. Certainly don't remember trimming 2-3 firings. </p><p></p><p>The Ackley range definitely had something going on certain rounds this one has me scratching my head. Maybe it's 200 fps, maybe it let's you scratch a higher pressure node but boiler room alone would have me guessing 80-120 all things equal. Now higher pressure node with less case taper plus some capacity gain may be greater.... but there is a seemingly endless ways to drive a 6.5 pill faster.</p><p></p><p>My mentor would let me form and fireform some of his crazy wildcats. Some were as much as 8 stages from parent including cutting length, neck, multi step down, and fire form.... think by college it got to me. These days I really try and avoid neck turning or fire forming. Maybe it's just stage of life, as I round out of youth to middle age life seems to short to fire form anything but a hotrod. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Now, if I was old, not married or unhappily married, or 2 days into "15 to flatten the curve"... maybe fire forming a modest cartridge to slightly less modest cartridge would pencil.. </p><p></p><p>For now my "Ackley" cartridges are factory Ackley.</p><p></p><p>Tldr: don't do it, it's like putting a performance map on a silver Honda accord. It's more performance but begs the question of why?</p><p></p><p>* edit: made a liar out of myself, have a heavy barreled 22-250 ai. Kinda forgot as ammo got so good late 17'-18' I ended up buying piles of factory ammo on the cheap. Probably shot half the barrel life just fire forming. One of these days I'm gonna have a heap of mixed bag fire formed brass to work up, since decent 12$ a box ammo is probably less likely to come back than old fashioned manners....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="comfisherman, post: 2668062, member: 8394"] Had a 260 in the days before the 6.5 manbun took over the world, was a great well rounded cartridge. With a better marketing team and some better twist/market timing.... could have been big. Was a blued rifle and when I left the high desert it got adopted out. I think I had 100 pieces of lapua brass, a moderate load and don't remember loosing a piece over a comically large amount of firings. Certainly don't remember trimming 2-3 firings. The Ackley range definitely had something going on certain rounds this one has me scratching my head. Maybe it's 200 fps, maybe it let's you scratch a higher pressure node but boiler room alone would have me guessing 80-120 all things equal. Now higher pressure node with less case taper plus some capacity gain may be greater.... but there is a seemingly endless ways to drive a 6.5 pill faster. My mentor would let me form and fireform some of his crazy wildcats. Some were as much as 8 stages from parent including cutting length, neck, multi step down, and fire form.... think by college it got to me. These days I really try and avoid neck turning or fire forming. Maybe it's just stage of life, as I round out of youth to middle age life seems to short to fire form anything but a hotrod. Now, if I was old, not married or unhappily married, or 2 days into "15 to flatten the curve"... maybe fire forming a modest cartridge to slightly less modest cartridge would pencil.. For now my "Ackley" cartridges are factory Ackley. Tldr: don't do it, it's like putting a performance map on a silver Honda accord. It's more performance but begs the question of why? * edit: made a liar out of myself, have a heavy barreled 22-250 ai. Kinda forgot as ammo got so good late 17'-18' I ended up buying piles of factory ammo on the cheap. Probably shot half the barrel life just fire forming. One of these days I'm gonna have a heap of mixed bag fire formed brass to work up, since decent 12$ a box ammo is probably less likely to come back than old fashioned manners.... [/QUOTE]
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