Anyone out there use a .260 Remington for deer hunting or any big game animal?

Question

Those Remington Model 7's look pretty nice, I would like to know it performs n the hunting world.

Answer 1

Jim Carmichael is in my opinion one of the most knowlegeble gun writers of this time and he considers the .260 to be the perfect whitetail deer round and I can't disagree. Low recoil, adequate power, and generally good accuracy, what more could you want. Keep your bullets at 120 grains or heavier and if you lose a deer it's because you either missed or didn't hit him where you're supposed to. As for coolhands answer, I have read some of your other answers and for the most part agree with what you say, but I'm gonna have to differ from you're opinion on the matters of "brush bustin" rounds and the matter of game larger than deer and the .260. First of all, alot of test shooting has been done in the last 10-20 years to determine which rounds penetrate brush best. Contrary to popular opinion, nothing flies straight after it strikes brush. Bullets with high sectional density (heavy for caliber) do better than anything, but it's still a crap shoot where a deflected bullet will go. Use a good scope and avoid branches. I would not hesitate to use a .260 in brush country or deep woods. As for game larger than deer, WWD kinda said it all in his answer. How much bigger than an elephant can you get? A .260 wouldn't be my first choice for game larger than deer, but if I was walking out my back door (Wyoming) to go elk or bear hunting and a .260 was the only rifle I owned, I sure as hell wouldn't stay home. I'd load it with a 140 grain or heavier bullet, probably a Nosler Partition, (see WWD, I do like the NP, just reserve it for bigger/tougher game than deer), place my shot well and start trying to find freezer space. Good luck with your .260.

Answer 2

260 Remington For Deer

Answer 3

Jim Carmichael's 6.5 Panther, now known as the 260 Remington, in the model 7 essentially duplicates the 6.5x55 Swede, and it's a bit hotter than the 6.5 M-S, with which W.D.M.Bell killed hundreds of elephants, so I don't think you need to worry too much about being undergunned. I've had no problems with my Swede, and my youngest has a model 7 in 7mm08 instead of 260 simply because I already had the dies and brass for the former and wanted to limit the chance of confusion. And in contradistinction to the answer above, if you load it with 160's you have the largest SD of any bullet in the hunting world, as good as you can get for bucking brush or penetrating deeply. And as I noted above, it's killed ELEPHANTS by the hundreds.

Answer 4

You betcha it'll work for deer hunting. I've seen a few nice deer taken by a fellow hunter with a Rem .260

Answer 5

I understand the question yet advise that it's not a life like question. right here is what I advise. while you're financially able to seek "each and every super interest animal on the earth" then you quite could have the money for to purchase extra advantageous than one rifle. the fee of the rifle is consistent with threat the smallest price of a searching holiday. as an occasion, in case you needed to shoot the Marco Polo Sheep interior the Himalayas you like a flat-capturing rifle which will attain out an prolonged distance, say 3 hundred yards or so, and kill the sheep at this sort of distance. in case you have been capturing a Cape Buffalo you may prefer a heavy bullet which will destroy by way of super quantities of bone and horn and furnish super tissue destruction. For which you do no longer prefer to apply the comparable rifle and high quality you utilize for the sheep. Then in case you like to shoot an American antelope you like a easy bullet at extreme speed, returned for long variety, yet you do no longer want as heavy a bullet as you may use for the sheep. in case you like a moose, you need to prefer something in between. i've got hunted grizzly in Alaska, moose in Alaska and British Columbia, plains antelope in Africa and america of a, deer, caribou and elk interior america of a (decrease 40 8). i've got used a .375 H & H (grizzly, moose and elk and African Antelope), a .3 hundred Weatherby Magnum (elk and caribou and moose), a 7mm Rem magazine (caribou, deer, African antelope and American antelope), a .264 Win magazine (antelope in Montana, deer in California). Now, over the years my renowned high quality grew to become the .375 H & H magazine. I handload so as that gave me super sort and that i had a custom made rifle which grew to become into rather precise. additionally I prepare lots and the balk did no longer problem me (even with the shown fact that I freely admit it kicks like hell). So, in case you asked for a suggestion for basically one gun, i could vote for the .375...yet that's no longer a life like physique of suggestions. additionally, i does not (and did no longer) initiate with the .375. i could initiate with something like the 7mm Rem magazine, hunt maximum super interest interior america of a and while i grew to become into waiting for grizzly i could get the .375. only 1 guy's opinion.

Answer 6

I am sure it will take deer fine if you dont encounter dense brush. I wouldn't hunt a thicket or deep woods, NOR would I make an attempt at any bigger game. You can take bigger game, but with a .26 calibre bullet you are more likely to wound instead of kill.

Answer 7

Shot my first deer with a 6.5 Swedish Mauser in 1968

Answer 8

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