New caliber (to me)

[emtrescue6]

Nothing more than a 6.5/7mm Dakota can do, it's been around for a few years. Originally named the 260 Weller, the designer did his load development and testing at Nosler about 5 years ago. They must have obtained the rights to it. I still haven't seen any case dimensions of the Nosler offering.

According to my friend at Nosler (I have a house in Redmond and been shopping at their factory store for over 20 years) this cartridge actually isn't the 260 Weller. The 26 Nosler is actually based on a necked down 375 Ruger case and I believe the 260 Weller is based off a necked down 7mm Dakota...the 26 Nosler has a case capacity of 93g of water. It was officially released at SHOT last week.

[Hotolds442]

According to my friend at Nosler (I have a house in Redmond and been shopping at their factory store for over 20 years) this cartridge actually isn't the 260 Weller. The 26 Nosler is actually based on a necked down 375 Ruger case and I believe the 260 Weller is based off a necked down 7mm Dakota...the 26 Nosler has a case capacity of 93g of water. It was officially released at SHOT last week.

Yes, the Weller was a necked down 300 or 7mm Dakota. I was hoping they'd base the 260 off of the 375, but when I saw that Weller had done his R&D at Nosler, I figured that's where they were headed since a lot of the work was already done. You gotta love it when a company announces something new and then leaves it wide open for rumor and speculation for 2 months before actually showing it to the public. I've been hitting the factory store since the ballistic tips first came out. If you could only get them now for what we were paying then........

[emtrescue6]

Yes, the Weller was a necked down 300 or 7mm Dakota. I was hoping they'd base the 260 off of the 375, but when I saw that Weller had done his R&D at Nosler, I figured that's where they were headed since a lot of the work was already done. You gotta love it when a company announces something new and then leaves it wide open for rumor and speculation for 2 months before actually showing it to the public. I've been hitting the factory store since the ballistic tips first came out. If you could only get them now for what we were paying then........

Oh man tell me about it! I was cleaning up and organizing my "lead" cabinet awhile back and found a couple bags of seconds of the old solid base 100g 6mm (probably 25-30 years old?), price tag on the bags of 100 was $3...hahaha! Found a couple bags of 150g .277 BT's...price, $4.50!!!!

[BillPa]

I was cleaning up and organizing my "lead" cabinet awhile back and found a couple bags of seconds of the old solid base 100g 6mm

Well, if you want to get rid of those antiqued 6/100s I'll be glad to take them off your hands.

Bill

[emtrescue6]

well, if you want to get rid of those antiqued 6/100s i'll be glad to take them off your hands.

bill

hahahahahahahahahaha