| Ripp |
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| 17/12/16 01:10 PM |
Fixing-a-custom-260-remington-bolt-action-rifle
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Interesting article...
Ripp
http://rifleshooter.com/2014/11/fixing-a-custom-260-remington-bolt-action-rifle/
| DarylS |
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| 17/12/16 02:19 PM |
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Yes it was.
I had a local chap put a 27" .260 Rem (rifled 4140 contoured blank - chambered long by Jeff Lawrence) on a 1950 M98 action.
I think the twist is a standard 9". I had threads put on the barrel as I received it. This long chamber fit a 7x57 necked to .264 perfectly, using a normal .26" neck. The case ended up holding 60gr. water, same as the 6.5x284, I have read. I called it the .260CLC, for Carol's Little Ctg. Yes - the CLC moniker was plagiarized by me from Layne Simpson, I believe as he named a 6mm on a .222 case, I think it was, for his daughter.
With the 60gr. capacity, this 27" bl. delivered 3,308fps using Re#19 powder and 120gr. XLC Barnes Blue Coated bullets & would put 5 of them into 3/4" - no change to the muzzle, except for re-crown.
At that time, my .264 Winchester magnum made 3,358fps with the same bullets, but used 30gr. more powder (H870) to do it. I rebarreled the .264 WM to .458 - LOL.
As the recoil generated by the .260CLC was more than enjoyable for my daughter, I had my friend set the barrel back to exactly headspace on standard .260 Rem. factory brass.
This standard .260Rem. chamber, in this splendid Laurence Barrel shoots just under, to barely over 1/2" at 100 meters, 5-shot groups with all bullets tried so far - 85gr. HP, 100gr. HP, 120gr. XLC, 140gr. Interlock. The 160gr. Sierra Semi-RNI with a mere 34.0gr. H4895 (soft recoil), can only manage to get into 1.125" 5-shot groups with me shooting.
After we found Carol could shoot it well with this load, and with the scope taped at 4X, Carol put 10 consecutive 160's into 1 1/2" with 8 of those in 1". Bench? Well sort of, elbow resting only on the concrete benchtop. It gets better, as the 'target' was a solid black deer silhouette stapled up at 100 meters (109yards) - solid black - no aiming point, no marks. She said, where do I shoot it - I said, "you know where, behind the elbow" - "just kill it, Carol" - she sure did.
Obviously, she is a natural, a talented rifle shot and, of course had to have had an exceptionally good teacher, eh!
| gryphon |
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| 17/12/16 04:11 PM |
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of course had to have had an exceptionally good teacher, eh!
Yep NE`s finest D.
| DarylS |
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| 17/12/16 05:31 PM |
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LOL - she was an exceptionally adept student. I love training women - they listen and do exactly as taught.
| 93x64mm |
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| 18/12/16 08:38 AM |
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Daryl, keep the target specifically for the boyfriends - just as an incentive they ever piss your little girl off!
| DarylS |
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| 18/12/16 10:39 AM |
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LOL - did for a while - she's fully capable of holding her own, now. V-strong and athletic, like her dad (was?). I'm not 60 any more - lol.
Besides, she's 34yrs. old, teaching high school and living 5 hours North of us. Arriving on Sunday coming, I think for a week's visit.
With the warm weather coming, maybe she will want to shoot the black powder trail with us (with her mother's .45 cal. rifle).
| Clarkm |
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| 25/01/17 07:55 PM |
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I have built two 260 Rifles, one a VZ24 Mauser with Douglas factory long chambered and blued barrel 10" twist.
Another, 260 on a commercial Mauser with a Shilen stainless match barrel in 9" twist.
Neither shot well enough to compete for hunting privileges against what ever 7mmRemMag I built that year.
But in Sept 2015 a 6.5-06 I built with Shilen select match stainless barrel with 8" twist on a Dumoulin Mauser was getting good groups at 600 yards. I shot a couple deer in 2015 with it.
I am sure there is nothing wrong with the 260 cartridge, the out of control variables are my fault, but I just wanted to share my anecdotes.
| xausa |
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| 25/01/17 11:02 PM |
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My first center fire rifle, acquired in 1958, was an Arisaka Model 38 in 6.5X50. Not wanting to shell out for expensive Norma brass, I had it rechambered with a .243 Winchester reamer to what we back then called a 6.5X.308. Its dimensions were for all intents and purposes the same as the .260 Remington.
The barrel was reduced to a manageable 24", the bolt handle altered and a Fajen sporter stock fitted, as well as a Unertl 6X Small Game scope. It would cheerfully digest anything I put in it, from 93 grain Normas to 160 grain Hornadys, despite the dire warnings of excessive twist (7.5").
Since then, I have had a 1936 Oberndorf Portuguese Mauser fitted with a sporter weight barrel in that caliber and several target rifles. They all performed in exemplary fashion, both in the hunting field and on the target range.
I didn't learn until fairly recently that Mauser anticipated the cartridge by many years, with the creation of the 6.5X54 Mauser cartridge for rifles with the Kurz action in 1900.