260 Custom Build

The blueprint you used is as good as any. Nice to see guys out there that know how to build stuff as it should be. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif Only change I would make would be a 1-8" twist. Although that is not really necessary, I like to be able to go heavier, if needed..........
 
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Josh- First thing I'd do is make sure the stock you buy fits a Remington. Just Kidding. Sent you a P.M.

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HEY NOW!!! My girliefriend picked that thing up for me while I was outta town. AH heck, she meant well! Enjoy!

Appreciate everyones input. 2MG, Lonny,Ogunner, and IDBoB, those are some good looking guns there. IDBob, too bad CZ dont roll one out in a 260, I'd jump on one those /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Love my lil CZ Kevlar Varmint 204.

I'll probably go into this like Bob said. Was able to find some older model BDLs and a Classic, and go with a re-barrel for now and just keep tinkering on it. I dont forsee shooting anything heavier than a 140 grain, so I dont know if that justifies building it off a long action or not?

We'll just keep her a "semi-custom" for now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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If weight is an issue then I would stay with a short action.

The long action is nice because you can seat the bullets farther. However please remember that since you are having the rifle chambered for the cartridge that you want, then you also have control over the chambering. You do not have to make the throat as long, and you can make the chamber a bit tighter. Therefore you would not need to seat the bullets out as far. And since you are probably wanting to use this rife as a big game rifle then I am sure you want to be able to use the magazine. You could even have the chamber and twist rate for one specific bullet if that is the way you want to go. You can make a dummy round and send that round to your gunsmith, and he can "fashion" the chamber around that dummy round. I just did a 22-250 that way.

A 22 inch barrel would be adequate. Personally I would go with a 24" in a lighter contour. Just do not heat the barrel up with rapid shooting. Accuracy should not suffer because of the barrel weight as long as you do not heat it up.

The 260 is a good choice. Personally I like the 30 caliber's, but that is just my opinion. The cartridge should make a great lightweight hunting rifle.

I definitely like the Remington action. However if you are going to have it trued, and blue printed then I probably would not go with a Remington. I just did that to a Remington and I have as much in the Remington as I would have had in a custom action. My next build will be on a custom action.

Check out the Manners stocks. They make a pretty good stock. The McMillan's are also great stocks. But they have pretty well "gotten full of themselves", just my opinion. Tom.
 
Josh, I gotta agree with Hogghead on going with a short action as the best way to start your 260 Rem build. With the LA You will just have more weight added to your project with no benefits that I can see for the bullets you plan on using.

As a side note, A Kimber 84 Montana might fit your needs without going the semi-custom route and last I looked it came in .260 Rem, 22" SS barrel, syn stock, all at just over 5 lbs unscoped.
 
I am starting to warm up the the Montanas lately. Still like the 75 Finnlights better though. You can get a Montana with a decent scope for the price of a Finnlight, however.
 
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with no benefits that I can see for the bullets you plan on using.

Thanks Lonny.......thats the main thing I was debating. I know those 140 6.5's are long, and that was my main concern with a short action. For its purpose, Im thinking I'll be fine. I dont see shooting anything over 140's out of it. Is the extra ounces in a long action justified by a bit more case capapcity is what I was pondering.

I did find a used Model 7 CDL in 243 locally yesterday, be a simple rebarrel. And for what I think I can get it for, would still come out ahead over a new factory one.

2MG....I love my Sakos too....wasnt aware they put one out in the 75. Now you got me looking again!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
75 Finnlight in 7-08 is one of my favorite rifles. This one has a fluted bolt, McMillan stock, and trigger set at 1.3 lbs.........

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2much- That is an awesome looking rifle! How does it shoot. Was this a factory job? I have had some interest in going this route over a full blown custom. I dont shoot paper but appreciate an accurate gun and think I might be happy with a Finnlight. BTW why does Sako use a M action for their .260?
 
Rifle is 100% factory except for stock and bolt fluting. Have not shot it since I bedded it. It shot 1" groups at 200yds before hand with 140gr BST's. Will be running 120gr TSX's out of it soon.

It is a true short action, not medium......
 
Those of you that are also on the 24hourcampfire KNOW that I'm a died in the wool 260 slut. I've had the same Model 7 rebarreled 4 times in 260 and barrel #5 is in the gun safe. I built my first 6.5-08 in 95. The only two centerfire calibers I shoot more are 223 and 308.

Last time it was rebarreled I put a 22" Mountain Rifle barrel on it, which is the same contour as the factory Model 7, so, the Micky got sold and I found a factory M7 laminated stock. In this trim its right at 7 Lbs 3 ounces all up and a wee bit butt heavy.

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Once I get all the funds together, the Pac-Nor ultralight contour pipe in the safe is going on it, the whole things getting squirted graphite black, and going in a Lone Wolf Summit OD green stock
 
Dan, good to see another .260 slut around. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif What brand of barrels did you use on previous rebarrel jobs?

Just for the sake of conversation, what is your favorite bullet for just shooting and what is your "go to" deer bullet for the .260?
 
I built this .260 on a 700 short action, mountain rifle barrel contour. Sold the laminated stock and bedded it into a Bansner to save weight. Talley rings to save a little more.
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Working on loading the 130 Scirrocco II and the 120 TSX as we speak.

Fast Ed
 
Lonny, the first two barrels were fluted Lilja #3's, and the 3rd was from Jeff Lawrence. The 4th (the smoked Mountain Rifle contour on it now was pulled off a 700 TI, lapped, inspected with a bore scope, turned off a thread and rechambered)

Here in Montana, I use two loads for big game depending on which half the divide I'm on. East half I run the 100 Partitions at 3200+ FPS (which handles Deer and Antelope QUITE well.) This half the divide I run 140 Partitions at 2725 FPS (we have a General Rifle season that is Deer and Elk, and Fall Bear starts 2-3 weeks before that and goes until the end of General Rifle.) When I take the 260 in the higher elevations chasing after Mule Deer, its nice to have a bullet you know will hold up on an Elk if you should happen upon one. For an all around Utility load I run 140 Interlocks or Hot-Cors (whichever is cheaper or available)

Fast Ed, if your take off was at the Missoula Gunshow in 2005, its now on my gun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Ironically my Model 7 started out as a 243 and was my coyote rifle. After I smoked that barrel on varmints and coyotes, it always left me a little under-impressed on deer. At the time I was making a few Highpower matches here and there, and the 6.5-08 was pretty popular with the Match Rifle crowd. So I built one for a high country mountain rifle to chase Muleys with. A couple years later Jim Carmichael "Invented" the 260 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

For coyotes in the 260 its hard to top a 95 VMAX. It makes them sick in a hurry /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I built a 243ackley on a short 700 and regret it. i load 95gr bergers touching the lands and it has to be a single shot. you might have trouble with 140's in the mag
 


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