260 Remington

[270man]

Rapier,

Good "wrap-up" comment. My original post wasn't to promote arguments on what is "best". The 260 is here, I have one and so do you. The 260 doesn't fill any missing niche in my rifle battery, but one doesn't really need a reason to try something new. One minor reason I chose the 260 was to reduce recoil for my wife and grandsons in cow elk hunting. I could have chosen a 6.5x55, a 25-06, a 257Roberts, a 250Savage or ?? and any of them would probably be satisfactory.

Just so I don't start any arguments on what is the minimum caliber for elk, I can relate some first-hand experience. As a certified Hunter Education instructor in Arizona, I help the AzGFD with the annual juniors-only elk hunt, and make it a practice to ask a lot of the successful young hunters what caliber they used. The majority of those polled used the 243 Winchester.

270man