I mentioned in a previous post that I inherited my father’s guns recently. This past weekend I finally brought my favorite home. Dad’s 264 Win. Mag. Pretty much none of my IRL friends are into guns so I’m going to brag about it here. This thing was always a nail driver but when I was in highschool, dad finally wore the barrel out of it (or wrecked due to lack of cleaning). For his birthday that year Mom and I bought him a stainless barrel. His best friend at the time was a gunsmith who replaced the barrel and bedded the stock. After that, this thing was unbelievable. Honestly, I’m not a good enough shot to justify it but even still, I’ll hang on to this one until I’m dead.
Does anyone else have any experience with a 264? The few gun enthusiasts I’ve talked to have all been surprised when I tell them about this one.
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I have never held a gun, and don’t know much of em. But that is a nice rifle. Very clean looking. The butt of the rifle that hollowed out Diamond pattern, is that to help absorb recoil?
Not OP but yes. In a semi automatic gun some of the recoil energy is used to move parts (handgun slides, rifle bolts etc) to eject the used casing and get the next round ready.
On a bolt action rifle like this one that recoil is going straight into the shooter’s shoulder with no dampening except for that pad.
And weight is a factor too. A heavier gun has more mass so there’s less felt recoil, but a heavy rifle is a lot harder to lug around for hours. Many hunting rifles are meant to be lighter to carry and move easier, so the felt recoil will be more stout because of that. But a hunter out in the woods usually isn’t firing many rounds so it’s seen as a good tradeoff.
Not OP, but likely yes to your question. Looks like an aftermarket recoil pad to me.
7mm Remington magnum outsold it. It’s similar to 6mm arc. It’s a great deer round and performs well out of light rifles.
It’s a long distance cartridge due to the small diameter, ogive and high velocity. Boat tail bullets perform well. What’s the longest shot you’ve taken with it?
I haven’t shot it much myself yet but I saw dad make 300 yard shots pretty regularly. He said he got an elk with it at 400 yards but he was also an admitted bullshiter so I would take that with a grain of salt.
That’s not outside of the realm of possibility it’s a very flat shooting rifle round.
I’ve not shot a .264 mag. The closest I’ve shot is .270 and that is a very capable round, slightly slower but slightly heaver for about the same impact.
Being a high velocity, slightly lighter round, it should shoot long; as long as there is no windage. Ive seen plenty of Red Dear dropped well past 400m with a .270.
This past weekend I finally brought my favorite home. Dad’s 264 Win. Mag
It’s a beauty!
Does anyone else have any experience with a 264?
I’d never even heard of it and had to look on the wikipedia page to get up to speed. It’s a stout caliber.
Hopefully there was an ammo stockpile in the estate so you don’t have to pony up the $4-$5 per round they seem to be going for! Maybe hold onto the brass in case you decide to start handloading for it. Looks like for an average round it’d cost about ~$1.20 to reload your own brass with new primer, projectile, and traditional magnum powder. If dad left you a reloading press then the universe might be trying to tell you something. :-)
Well despite making a bunch of noise about how he was going to get one for the past few years, he did not leave me a press. He did save a bunch of brass and also left the recipe for the optimal rounds he and a buddy of his (who did have a press) fine tuned over a couple summers taped to the top of one of the ammo boxes. So at least there’s that.
