Duffy

I've had a win.70 in .264 for many years. I don't shoot it a whole lot at targets or varmints, so i have not "shot the barrel out" yet. I can't shoot those 3/4 inch groups I used to but that could be the operator. With it I have shot: white-tail, mule deer, antelope, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, black bear, coyote and the heads off a few grouse.

If I was looking for a "medium to long range deer sized game cartridge" I'd take a .264 mag. or a 6.5 rem mag. before building a 6.5/284 or a .25/284.

Robin

James B

If you study and compare ballistics, what you may be looking for is the 270 or 280. With 140 grain bullets the ballistics of the 264 Win Mag, 270 and 280 are to close to call the difference. The 7 Mag would give a little but very little edge over the three others. Nothing an animal would notice.

thndrchiken

Not to mention the fact that this may be a handload only proposition. Midway only carries one factory load, so I imagine your friend would be pretty hard pressed to find ammo locally.

Flying Ferris

I think there are 2 factory loads being produce, one is a win supreme offering, and the other is rem corelocked (man they make just about every caliber under the sun in this grade ammo.) However I would guess that if you ever wanted to get value out of for paying for this rifle would be to hand load.

Ruger-Redhawk

I didn't know these 264's were that hard to find.I guess I'm fortunate having a Winchester M-70 in 264 unfired NIB.I bought it from a friend back in the early 80's.I have dies,unfired brass and factory loaded ammunition for it.

Ruger Redhawk

DM

At one time (early 70's) i had a friend that bragged on the .264 Win. mag. "all the time". I happened to be hanging around Cordova Ak. for a summer and what comes along but a Win. model 70 in .264 Win. Mag... It was cheap so i bought it from a guy i had met there. It was the first one i ever fired.

One day in the fall while carrying it i spotted a "quite nice" brown bear in a big gravel pit, and as i was after one, i decided to let him have a 140 grain bullet in the ribs. At the shot, HE took off like a shot, so i let another one fly and he went into the woods. I was sure of my shots but he acted like they were clean miss'!!

After a while i went over there and started tracking him, but he went into some very thick cover and that made me nervous!!! SO, back to camp i go and get my iron sighted savage 110 .338 Win. Mag. loaded with 300 grainers.

It wasn't long after and i was crawling around in the bush looking for him, after about 100 yards it got quite dark out!!! Let's see, wounded brown bear and dark, that didn't sound too good to me, so back to camp i go!!!

One day a stray half grown dog wondered into camp. He was half starved, so i shot a porkeypine, skinned it out, and gave it to him!! MAN, i "instantly" was his best bud!!! He wanted to follow me everyplace!!

SO,

Next morning i'm back out there on my hands and knees looking for sign with my "best Bud" there with me!!! All of a sudden he changed his mind, and decided maybe going the "other direction" was a better idea!!! I kinda took notice of that and figured i had a bear close, and i DID!! About 50 yards further from where i left off the night before, there was my brownie, dead!

Both the 140 grain bullets went into the rib cage about 10" and exploded, and i mean exploded!! YES, he was dead, but that really put me further along on my path of my love for Nosler partitions!!!!

Drilling Man

Roskoe

You know, if I was in the market for a fast stepping .264, I would give a hard look to the 6.5 WSM. This is one of the easiest wildcats to load for - just take 270 WSM brass and run it through the FL die. I did some load development a year ago on one that had a 24" Hart barrel. It could make 3350 fps with 140 Nosler Partitions - no sweat.

Jeep4x4

I wish I had a .264 Win Mag so I could do somethin with the ammo I have layin around. Bought some remington 140gr .264 Win Mag ammo awhile back and its just collecting dust. Oh well, I guess I can add it to my ammo collection.

mossy33oak

I am not very familiar with this caliber at all, but I was at a local reloading store the other day and he had a table of odd and end stuff (mostly old tarnished brass) cheap. Well there was a cardboard box on the table with 7mm Rem Mag marked on it, upon opening it all the brass inside was stamped .264 Win mag. Is the brass hard to come by? Would this be something worth picking up cheap to try and resell?