264 Winchester load combinations?

[ezekiel38]

Last spring I sold my reloading outfit and all the accessories that 50 years of reloading, casting and shooting garners. A truckload. I sold this to a man who I have known and mentored for 30+ years. He's an LEO and will be retiring in a couple of years and he wants to develop skills in reloading, particularly rifles.

My background in reloading ammo for rifles is limited. 06, 308 and 7mm-08.

My friend has a 264 Winchester that is a pre 64 Winchester that belonged to his grandfather and is in very good shape with a low round count. He wants to use the 264 Model 70 and take an Elk with it. I've loaded a smattering of 7mmMagnums but no other belted cased cartridges.

So the question to the forum is: Are there known bullet/powder recommendations for 264 Win Mag that go together like hotdogs and mustard, beer and pretzels, and 2400 and 358156 bullets?

Wondering if you all might have a "pet Load" (forgive me Ken Waters) for this cartridge?

Thanks for looking in?

Zeke38

PS: He's not into eroding his barrel.

[bigbrowndog]

54gr. Imr4350 140nosler part, was a buddy’s go to all around load for his Win70, whitetails to elk.

Trapr

[jaydubinwi]

I have a 264. I bought it new in 1998. I used to shoot 120 gr Barnes X bullets with 7828. Took a bunch of whitetails with that load. More recently, I have shot 140 Nosler accubonds and ballistic tips with discontinued IMR 8133. I took a mule deer buck with the accubond and an antelope with the ballistic tip. Both shots were around 90 yards and both bullets exited.
Now if I wanted to take an elk with the 264 I would load either 120 Barnes TTSX or 140 Nosler partition or accubond. As far as powders go, Something like retumbo or ramshot magnum would be what I'd try.
Good luck

[squigz]

I have a Ruger m77 tang safety in 264wm that loves 120gr Nosler Ballistic tips and 60gr of IMR4350. I would not recommend this for Elk however, but it's the only load I've run in the gun, it's lightening on whitetails.

[Lee Martin]

I've had good luck with 68.5 grs of Retumbo and Sierra's 142 grain HP BT. My barrel is 27.5" and that combination does an honest 3,200+ fps. Accuracy is outstanding from a Shilen ratchet cut barrel (1:8 twist).

-Lee
www.singleactions.com
"Chasing perfection five shots at a time"

[ezekiel38]

Thanks guys, this really helps as powder experimentation with different loads is not cheap.