SAVAGE MODEL 12

[Tracer]

I sort of ticked off my nephew when he brought his new Remington 700 over to the house for me to take a look at and tell him what type of rifle scope to put on the gun. I told him that rifle is not the type of gun for shooting 400 to 600 yards at tin cans in the field. I told him to get a Savage model 12! Then I explained that the .270 caliber, though very good for shooting animals under 400 pounds, it is not a long range type caliber that one needs for shooting smaller groups. Also will be sporting a Bushnell rifle scope in the 6 X 24 power with mil-dot recticle and adj AO with turrets.

So now he is going to sell the new 700 Remington and proceed with a model 12 Savage with accustock in a 25-06. However this barrel will be removed and a custom made bull barrel in stainless will be chambered in the 260 Remington caliber. I have one in a 6.5-06 and it is a real dandy shooter using a 140 grain bullet out to 600 yards.

[BoilerUP]

270 Winchester can shoot small groups just fine at 400-600yds; the only thing the 270 lacks compared to, say, a 6.5-7-7.62mm for long-range (>600yd) shooting is a wide selection of high BC .277 bullets.

That said, the .277 Berger 150gr VLD has a BC of .531, better than the 6.5mm 123gr A-Max or SMK and almost the BC of the 6.5mm 140gr SMK...and depending on barrel length you can push those 150gr VLDs to 2900-3000fps.

I think he'll be happy with a 260 (Lord knows myself and lots of other folks are), but the venerable 270 ain't no slouch in the accuracy department.

[frank1947]

most popular for 600 yards is 6mm BR, savage has that in a model 12, but the .260 will reach out nice to 1k