Does anybody shoot 120 gr projectiles in their 260. I currently run 123 gr in mine but they are really hard to find at moment. I'm down to half a box of seirra 123 gr hp matchkings and toying with the idea of 120 gr eldm if I can find some.
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Does anybody shoot 120 gr projectiles in their 260. I currently run 123 gr in mine but they are really hard to find at moment. I'm down to half a box of seirra 123 gr hp matchkings and toying with the idea of 120 gr eldm if I can find some.
Yep I use 120 Amax
Not a 260 as such but run 120gr Bt's in my 6.5x55, and yip into my last box, and they only come in boxes of 50, so.....
Fuck.
Just the world telling you to use a proper projectileQuote:
Originally Posted by jakewire
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I found the Sierra 130 HP's shot really well in my 260, not fussy about powder charge either.
run 120 bt in mine full load 09 the ducks nuts :P
Ha, It works for me, well it did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
Gunworks have 120 grain Eld-M in stock now - 1 box per customer. If you've got the twist rate they also have 140 grain Sierra Gamechangers - 2 boxes per customer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titanium
I use 120gr speer gold dots in 260 and 6.5 x 55.
Wow, sounds like components are scarce. I read a lot of forums with Americans finding it tough to get gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelisreal
Sounds like NZ are the second wave and it will in turn affect Australia. I suspect we have been clearing importer stock and they will come up short on future shipments.
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@Steelisreal Thanks for the tip, grabbed 2 box’s of the 140g this morningQuote:
Originally Posted by Steelisreal
Down to one box now.
I wanna like this twiceQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
I can honestly see myself trying a muzzle loader. Just so i have to slow down my rate of fire by 1000%
Don't be silly, you watched a 270meter kill 2 weeks ago with a projectile half the sizeQuote:
Originally Posted by gimp
Imagine what I can do with a 120gr.
Or even a 143 grn pillQuote:
Originally Posted by jakewire
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Greetings All,
I have been having a bit of a chuckle over some of the posts in this thread. Yes I do realise that not all posts should be taken at face value but I offer the following regardless.
Deer have actually been killed without the aid of the latest wonder projectile. Simple projectiles with a lead soft point and a flat base do not bounce of deer hair and whine mournfully into the distance. Projectiles with a G1 BC of less than 0.5 do not fall harmlessly to the gound 30 metres in front of the muzzle. So in answer to the OP 120 grain projectiles will do just fine where the 123 grains have worked in the past. Rifles in .260 Rem often have short magazines and slow twist barrels where the shorter projectiles cause less difficulty in loading.
Regards Grandpamac.
@grandpamac - "Projectiles with a G1 BC of less than 0.5 do not fall harmlessly to the ground 30 metres in front of the muzzle" - you can expect to be struck by a serious sized sized lightning bolt sent by the gods of long range ballisitics for such heresy! ��
Greetings @Steelisreal,
It is overcast and rainy here in HB today so have been keeping away from open spaces and hill tops. I new a couple of chaps who were skin hunters after the war for a decade or so either full or part time. They both used Mk VII amunition in a .303 BC around 0.4. Talking to one of them I asked if he hollow pointed his projectiles as was talked about at the time. He said he had tried it but noted no practical difference. He also said that the projectles usually tumbled and fragmented and he was forever skinning his knuckles on the fragments as he was punching off the skin. A declning number of us will know thar the Mark VII projectile had an aluminium or fibre tip of some sort inside the jacket ahead of the lead core. I suspect that this was done to improve the BC for long range machine gun barages early in WW1 but it did make the projectile less stable, hence the tumbling. I doubt if performance on deer was even considered by the Generals. Just shows what can be done with projectiles that some consider useless.
Regards Grandpamac.
I have long settled on 120grn Sierra pro hunter pills in the model 7's short barrel,simply brilliant.