What is the current favorite brass for the 260, lapua, norma, nosler, remington, or make from another caliber? prefer to not turn nks, and brass life is good. Not a tactical match rifle, so no fear of losing brass (lapua).
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Buy the best you can. For me it would be Lapua followed by Winchester 7-08.
Buy a couple hundred RP and weight sort them into two batches and see what you see. I loaded for a buddy who bought 400 pieces and I ran 200 of them 3-4 times with little problem.
Chris
260shooter and chris, thanks. I checked on brownells earlier and they showed rem, lapua, and Norma available. Looked 30 minutes later and nada. 260shooter, where are u out of? I live about 50 miles east of mt. Vernon, il.
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FWIW I have some Remington .260 brass with 8-10 loadings on them. Pretty mild load of 42 grains H4350 is probably why they have lasted this long. I'm also using Winchester .243 necked up and I'm having really good luck with it as well.
Lar, What's the case capacity differences on those?
I have Lapua .243, Winchester .308 and Nosler .260 brass I'm wanting to use.
I have Lapua .243, Winchester .308 and Nosler .260 brass I'm wanting to use.
I measured the case capacity of 3 or 4 cases of both 260RP and 243Win necked up to to 6.5mm. I can't remember exactly what the difference was, but want to say it was over 1gr H2O.
I definitely remember it was enough that I didn't want to mix headstamps.
I definitely remember it was enough that I didn't want to mix headstamps.
Lapua is by far my favorite 260 brass. Rem brass has never failed me and works fine!
I get about 50 fps increase with Lapua brass. I live 20 miles north of Albion.
I honestly couldn't tell you the difference in case capacity as I never even worried about it. Turbo, was it the Win brass with more case capacity? I thought I seen somewhere at one time Winchester brass was balloon head casings or something like that.
I had the chance to buy some Nosler this afternoon for my new .260. I refrained at this juncture only because I have 200 pieces of Rem that came with the rifle. I keep hearing the Rem .260 brass is actually fairly decent...
Hell, i live in Albion, small world. Ur name doesn't happen to be Bill is it?
I'm no expert on 260 brass by any means, but I'm having outstanding luck so far with Winchester 243 brass necked up. I'm getting 1/4 MOA groups with it. Bought it cheap for about $21 per 50. I deburred it, uniformed the primer pocket, then trimmed and chamfered it on my giraud.
Yes it does. Just had Brian build me a AR-10 in 260. Haven't recieved Norma 130's for it yet.
Yeah, Brian mentioned a couple kriegers in 260 he did for ar10s. I miss Corn, but Brian does dang good work. Had him true up a Remington action and I put a remage barrel on it. Just as slick as corns action work and just as accurate. Built a tikka to for me that is a hammer. Have to get together sometime at the farm and shoot. With crops out I can stretch out to 1250 yds. Back on topic, I found some nosler 260 so picked it up, everything else was out, even 7-08 win. Is nk turning required on 243 brass? Prefer to have proper case stamp but all my 243 shoot Berger and probably try to make 140 amax work in this so red tips should keep from mixing up.
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I neck up 243 Lapua and it needs neckturned because the shoulder is thicker than the neck. If you want to shoot just let me know. Haven't streched out the 300 Norma past 575.
That norma is crying for some distance. I have a bunch of 243 win, but i shoot alot of 243 fast twists. Pm sent Bill.
Same here.
If you are going to get all your brass back, I'd go Lapua. RP fully prepped works well but Lapua is better IMHO. I haven't run Norma or Nosler yet. I've done the necked up Win 243 Win / down Win 7-08 Rem to 260 and in my experience it performs well but hasn't held up as well as Lapau.
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