I thought it was easy to make .260 brass out of 7mm-08 cases. not true?
It is my understanding that it can be formed pretty easily from 7mm-08 or .243 Win cases pretty easily and can be done with .308 cases but may require some neck trimming.
I’m still curious how difficult it is to form 6.5 Creedmore from .308 family brass.
If you’re forming brass it means you’re reloading. Just go with the .260 in that case and buy the excellent commercially available brass.
I will be reloading. I probably will go with the .260. I would still like to know if it is possible to make 6.5C brass from something else. If not, that is one of the biggest strikes against the caliber. If it fails and Hornady stops making brass it would be very useful to be able to form it from something readily available.
I checked Snipers Hide and didn’t find the info there, as a previous poster suggested, but I’m not very familiar with that site and may have just missed it.
There’s a little info here:
http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1593869
Really, you’re not going to find a how-to or anything, it’s going to require some experimentation on your part. Generally you’ll have better luck sizing up (necking a .243 up to .264 versus trying to squeeze a .308 down) and depending on how much (if any) shoulder gets turned into the new neck you may have to turn the necks.
Thanks for the link. That is exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
I think I’d go with the 260Rem, while it’s not terribly popular and available, its form is close to the popular 308Win which is extremely popular and available. On the other hand, the 6.5 Creedmore is so rare, it makes the 260Rem seem positively common by comparison.
I’m considering a FAL in 260Rem, might be fun.
If Mark LaRue would roll out an OSR in .260 Rem, I’d be all over that.
I’ve heard that the resized Lapua .243 brass might be the best starting point - though I’ll probably set myself up with just Rem brass and expect mediocrity for the first reloads anyway.
The Rem brass can be very good if you do a little prep work to it. Unless you’re trying to shoot benchrest with it you’ll be more than fine with just deburring and chamfering the mouth, deburring the flash hole, and uniforming the primer pocket. Weight sorting the brass is an option, but again, unless you’re shooting BR it’s not going to make any practical difference.
If you really want great brass, you always have the option of buying the Nosler Custom .260 brass, or the Lapua .260 when it comes out shortly.