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.260 remington

Iam getting ready to work up a load for a savage .260 that will do well at 1000 yard it is a 1-8 twist. any info would be a great help bullet powder and fp sec . I use sierra and bergers with other rifles gun and have very good luck gun store said amax 123 works well. Thanks
 
My current load is 45.4gr of H4350 and CCI BR-2 behind a 130 VLD jumped 0.030". Remington brass. A hot load (3000fps from a 28" barrel) so work up, especially if you jam the bullet into the rifling.
 
Why not shoot 140 Amax, since you have a 8 twist theres no reason not to, I shoot 139 Scenars, 41.9 of H4350 in Rem brass or 42.3 in Win 7-08 lit off by CCi primers give me 2820, 8.1 mils at 1k, the 140 Amax will be very close to that.
 
I shoot 600yrd F-class with a .260rem loaded with 43.5grns H4350, CCI 200 primers, and the 142 SMK. I have found this to be my most accurate load achiving right around 2900fps out of my Bartlein 30inch 1-8.5 twist barrel. In fact the load has shot under .15 of an inch at 100yrds,a couple of times (center to center), but hovers right around .15 to .20 at 100yrds most of the time. I have shot the 123 SMK's some but the 142's seem to shoot better from my rifle. I use remington .260 brass also.
 
I agree with what the guys are telling you. However I like the 123 Lapuas. I could not get the 123AMAXs to shoot in my rifle. It loves the 140AMAXs though. H4350 is a great powder for the 260s and I also have had really good luck with Varget.

One of my 260s would shoot nothing but Varget. It loved the 140AMAX and 38 to 38.5grs of Varget. (Work up to this load) One of my other barrels liked 37.5grs of Varget and my current barrel loves the 123 Lapuas and H4350 so you never know.
 
What kind of velocities were you seeing with Varget?

I've only done minimal load development and my chrony is new, but 4831SC was giving me 100-150fps more with the 123gr A-Max than Varget did.

Got a whole bunch of various 140gr bullets (SMK, Nosler CC, AMax) to try next...
 
You didn't state what you are going to use the 260 for.

Last week I was shooting pdogs at slightly over 1000yds with my sav mdl 12 with a 260rem shilen prefit 8T from midway.

My load is 120SMK
42.0 imr4064
RP 260 cases
F210M primer

This load clocks 3023 fps from my 26" barrel. And I did hit a number of them!

I tried the berger 140 vld but could not get enough velocity to make it shoot tiny groups. pdog2225
 

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