Jmr40,
I'm confused by your statement of the creedmoor being able to handle heavier bullets or that it is somehow superior. The Creedmoor is a great little round but it is simply the 6.5 dejour.
260, x55, and creedmoor are all ballistic brothers. The rifles differ much more than the rounds.
There it is. Somebody said it. Now the marketing gurus will have to find something else to tout as a miracle cartridge. Oh well.simply the 6.5 dejour
I'm confused by your statement of the creedmoor being able to handle heavier bullets or that it is somehow superior. The Creedmoor is a great little round but it is simply the 6.5 dejour.
260, x55, and creedmoor are all ballistic brothers. The rifles differ much more than the rounds.
Cabela's isn't the place to use as an availability scale. Wally World is.
Lots of .260 Rem at Midway. Hornady, Federal, No$ler, Barnes and a bunch of obscure manufactures loading it. No shortage of brass either.
"...capable of being discontinued overnight..." That applies to every manufacturer.
You are not confused. Lots of folks hunting and competing with the .260Rem. But America, and sadly, even gun folks, live and die on marketing, regardless of facts.
Was Michael Jackson the best singer ever? Not by a long shot, but he was packaged better than anyone since Elvis.
Although I prefer to use lapua factory brass--the only issues I've had when necking down 308 to 264 in 260 rem is swagging the primer pockets if crimped and keeping an eye out for the occasional mil-spec FC case that does indeed have a thicker wall. The brass may flow up--easy to trim. I have seated and shot brass simply necked down, though some annealing helps to prevent the brass from getting brittle. The creedmoor offers a slight advantage in getting longer pointy things seated longer--but in my AR's built in CM and 260 I've never noticed any real difference between the two performance-wise. 260 rem is a dern fine cartridge which I don't see dying off--nor anything else that is based on a 308 case. : )BTW: Resizing 308 brass down to a 260 is indeed difficult. That's a 4 caliber drop in swagging.
LOL--I'm in the same boat.If the .260 is dead, my 6.5x55s must be positively fossilized. But then, I'm getting there myself.
That said, I'm still not seeing what the .260 does that the .308 can't do better, whether for hunting or for Match/competitive shooting.