Quote Originally Posted by Orr89rocz View Post
Its oal is 2.955” this will fit in a savage wsm mag box or other short action boxes just fine. I load my 300 wsm to 2.97. Idk why hornady would say The 260 is not a short action it is, but it just never was throated to seat long bullets out to maximize case capacity which seems to be the popular thing now.
I build all of my stuff on a long action (except my 22-250) I built my 260 off a long action (Savage 111) and then had CBI chamber my new barrel for match bullets my base/OG is 2.93. I wanted to make sure I could seat them out to take advantage of case capacity and still feed from the magazine.