Joe C
Student of the 1911.
Hello,
So, I bought this .260 Remington a few months ago. Long story short is it was purchased off of GB. All the seller could tell me was that it had been built by a guy who had passed away before getting to shoot it much and was being sold by his mother. It had been sitting at her house for a number of years. It was a really good deal. It has a fresh 28" Krieger MTU fluted 1-8 twist barrel on it that was made in the spring of 04 but hasn't been shot since the gentlemans death shortly thereafter. On the side of the barrel it is stamped D.S.S. .260 Rem. The barrel was turned down for an iron sight on the front and the action was drilled and tapped for sights along with having bases on the top with a loading block. It is a 1947 Win M70 action with original bolt sitting in a beautiful Cloward American Walnut stock. The scope is just a Leupold MX8-6 I had here and figured would work until the SIII's come in later next week.
Here are a couple of rather poor pics:
When it came in I cleaned the barrel and it had been shot but came clean very quickly. Just a cursory glance in the bore shows it to look very nice.
I have accumulated a pile of bullets from 123g Scenars to 142g SMK's and about 7 different kinds and weights in between including Bergers, Hornady and such. I have Federal Match primers, CCI BR2 primers, Wolf LR primers. I have Remington brass and some more on the way. I have some standard FL RCBS dies but am ordering some Redding dies this week. The thing I don't have is powder...
I see from pouring over the threads here for the last few days that many of you are shooting H4350 and 4831sc. In your opinions, would you start off with these two to see what works best or is there something else you would go with first? From what has been read by my eyes it appears that R15 and R17 can be a bit temp sensitive.
So, what say you? I'm anxious to get this rig up and running even though the stock may not be here to stay depending on what the rifle ends up getting used for down the road.
ALSO, I am looking at a couple of different instruments for measuring the OAL of the round from the ogive. ANY thoughts on which one would be greatly appreciated as that is something that needs to be here yesterday but I just can't make up my mind which one to purchase. And those dies, while Redding dies have worked very well for me in the past, I'd be open to hearing other thoughts about dies...
Thanks much in advance for all of your wisdom and thoughts!
So, I bought this .260 Remington a few months ago. Long story short is it was purchased off of GB. All the seller could tell me was that it had been built by a guy who had passed away before getting to shoot it much and was being sold by his mother. It had been sitting at her house for a number of years. It was a really good deal. It has a fresh 28" Krieger MTU fluted 1-8 twist barrel on it that was made in the spring of 04 but hasn't been shot since the gentlemans death shortly thereafter. On the side of the barrel it is stamped D.S.S. .260 Rem. The barrel was turned down for an iron sight on the front and the action was drilled and tapped for sights along with having bases on the top with a loading block. It is a 1947 Win M70 action with original bolt sitting in a beautiful Cloward American Walnut stock. The scope is just a Leupold MX8-6 I had here and figured would work until the SIII's come in later next week.
Here are a couple of rather poor pics:




When it came in I cleaned the barrel and it had been shot but came clean very quickly. Just a cursory glance in the bore shows it to look very nice.
I have accumulated a pile of bullets from 123g Scenars to 142g SMK's and about 7 different kinds and weights in between including Bergers, Hornady and such. I have Federal Match primers, CCI BR2 primers, Wolf LR primers. I have Remington brass and some more on the way. I have some standard FL RCBS dies but am ordering some Redding dies this week. The thing I don't have is powder...
I see from pouring over the threads here for the last few days that many of you are shooting H4350 and 4831sc. In your opinions, would you start off with these two to see what works best or is there something else you would go with first? From what has been read by my eyes it appears that R15 and R17 can be a bit temp sensitive.
So, what say you? I'm anxious to get this rig up and running even though the stock may not be here to stay depending on what the rifle ends up getting used for down the road.
ALSO, I am looking at a couple of different instruments for measuring the OAL of the round from the ogive. ANY thoughts on which one would be greatly appreciated as that is something that needs to be here yesterday but I just can't make up my mind which one to purchase. And those dies, while Redding dies have worked very well for me in the past, I'd be open to hearing other thoughts about dies...
Thanks much in advance for all of your wisdom and thoughts!