The custom rifle stock can be synthetic or laminated wood. There are many other fine quality barrels to choose from and I will build your My favorite choices are Brux, Krieger,īartlein. The choice of custom rifle barrels are limitless. I didn't learn until fairly recently that Mauser anticipated the cartridge by many years, with the creation of the 6.5X54 Mauser cartridge for rifles with the Kurz action in 1900.Ġ registered and 22 anonymous users are browsing this forum.I will build your rifle using a new action supplied by me or you can send your donor action directly to me. They all performed in exemplary fashion, both in the hunting field and on the target range. Since then, I have had a 1936 Oberndorf Portuguese Mauser fitted with a sporter weight barrel in that caliber and several target rifles. It would cheerfully digest anything I put in it, from 93 grain Normas to 160 grain Hornadys, despite the dire warnings of excessive twist (7.5"). The barrel was reduced to a manageable 24", the bolt handle altered and a Fajen sporter stock fitted, as well as a Unertl 6X Small Game scope. Its dimensions were for all intents and purposes the same as the. 243 Winchester reamer to what we back then called a 6.5X.308. Not wanting to shell out for expensive Norma brass, I had it rechambered with a. My first center fire rifle, acquired in 1958, was an Arisaka Model 38 in 6.5X50. I am sure there is nothing wrong with the 260 cartridge, the out of control variables are my fault, but I just wanted to share my anecdotes. Neither shot well enough to compete for hunting privileges against what ever 7mmRemMag I built that year.īut in Sept 2015 a 6.5-06 I built with Shilen select match stainless barrel with 8" twist on a Dumoulin Mauser was getting good groups at 600 yards. I have built two 260 Rifles, one a VZ24 Mauser with Douglas factory long chambered and blued barrel 10" twist.Īnother, 260 on a commercial Mauser with a Shilen stainless match barrel in 9" twist. With the warm weather coming, maybe she will want to shoot the black powder trail with us (with her mother's. Arriving on Sunday coming, I think for a week's visit.
old, teaching high school and living 5 hours North of us. I'm not 60 any more - lol.īesides, she's 34yrs. V-strong and athletic, like her dad (was?). LOL - did for a while - she's fully capable of holding her own, now. I love training women - they listen and do exactly as taught.ĭaryl, keep the target specifically for the boyfriends - just as an incentive they ever piss your little girl off! LOL - she was an exceptionally adept student. Get off the chair away from the desk and get out in the bush and enjoy life. Of course had to have had an exceptionally good teacher, eh! "a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V Obviously, she is a natural, a talented rifle shot and, of course had to have had an exceptionally good teacher, eh! She said, where do I shoot it - I said, "you know where, behind the elbow" - "just kill it, Carol" - she sure did. It gets better, as the 'target' was a solid black deer silhouette stapled up at 100 meters (109yards) - solid black - no aiming point, no marks. Bench? Well sort of, elbow resting only on the concrete benchtop. H4895 (soft recoil), can only manage to get into 1.125" 5-shot groups with me shooting.Īfter we found Carol could shoot it well with this load, and with the scope taped at 4X, Carol put 10 consecutive 160's into 1 1/2" with 8 of those in 1". chamber, in this splendid Laurence Barrel shoots just under, to barely over 1/2" at 100 meters, 5-shot groups with all bullets tried so far - 85gr. 260CLC was more than enjoyable for my daughter, I had my friend set the barrel back to exactly headspace on standard. 458 - LOL.Īs the recoil generated by the. 264 Winchester magnum made 3,358fps with the same bullets, but used 30gr. XLC Barnes Blue Coated bullets & would put 5 of them into 3/4" - no change to the muzzle, except for re-crown.Īt that time, my. delivered 3,308fps using Re#19 powder and 120gr. 222 case, I think it was, for his daughter. Yes - the CLC moniker was plagiarized by me from Layne Simpson, I believe as he named a 6mm on a. I had threads put on the barrel as I received it. 260 Rem (rifled 4140 contoured blank - chambered long by Jeff Lawrence) on a 1950 M98 action. Re: Fixing-a-custom-260-remington-bolt-action-rifle Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and othersįixing-a-custom-260-remington-bolt-action-rifle
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