What is a 260 rem good for?
What is a 260 rem good for?
Loaded with lighter bullets, the . 260 Remington can be used as an effective varmint or a small predator hunting cartridge for use against such species as marmots, woodchucks, bobcats and coyotes.
Is a 260 and 6.5 Creedmoor the same?
260 Remington, the Creedmoor case is about 5 percent shorter. Even though it starts out going 5 percent faster than Hornady’s 147-grain ELD Match 6.5 Creedmoor load (2840 fps vs. 2695 fps), the Creedmoor’s bullet arrives at 1000 yards 0.09-second—about 5 percent—sooner.
What year did the 260 Remington come out?
Remington released the . 260 Remington in 1997 as a hunting cartridge.
Is a 260 a short action?
260 Remington is housed nicely in a short-action rifle, and is both wonderfully accurate and easy on the shoulder. 308 necked down to hold 6.5mm bullets, maintaining the same 20-degree shoulder angle as its father, with a case length just . 020-inch longer than the . 308 Win.
Is 308 too much for deer?
308 Winchester certainly has enough energy to kill deer, pronghorn, elk, moose and bear out to 300 yards, but the bullet drops fast and it’s trajectory looks like a bell shaped curve by 500 yards. That would be a pretty doable shot out to 300 yards for the . 308 Winchester.
Is 260 rem a long action?
What is the recoil on a 260 Remington Remington?
The 142-grain 260 Rem. load in a 7-pound rifle should recoil about 17.5 f-p at a recoil velocity of 13 f-p. The 195-grain 308 Win. load in a 7-pound rifle should recoil about 24 f-p at 15 fps. Is that enough difference to make you flinch? Will you be able to deliver your bullets more precisely with the 260 Remington?
Where to buy a 260 caliber rifle?
Kimber is the only other domestic rifle maker that offers it, and among the imports, Sako and Tikka. Pretty sad. The .260 was rolled out in 1997, making it a fairly recent introduction.
Would a 260 Remington R-P shoot flat?
A 260 Remington by any other name would still shoot as flat. Flatter than the 308 Winchester. (Apologies to Shakespeare if he’s reading this.) By the way, the R-P stands for Remington Peters, not RIP (Rest in Peace.)
Can anyone shoot a 260 well?
As for recoil, the.260 nudges the shoulder with 12.3 foot-pounds of energy with the 120-grain load in an 8-pound rifle, and 14.1 foot-pounds with the 140. To give that some perspective, a.30-06 kicks with 22 foot-pounds of energy. That’s about 60 percent more recoil. The bottom line: Anyone can shoot a.260 well.
