Striker .260 good for anything

[chunter]

Hey all,  I recently inherited a Savage Striker in .260.  I like the cartridge, but what is the purpose of this pistol? It seems that that pistol is to long to hunt with, and not long enough to use like a rifle.  Please enlighten me.

Thanks

[BLACK BEAR]

:roll: The Striker equipped with a pistol scope is currently too heavy to compete in UAS silhouette matches, so what to do with it??

For many years I have hunted Wyoming Antelope with my Unlimited silhouette pistols,,,,Contenders, Encore, and Rampros. The midgrip Rampros are deadly accurate, light triggers and are designed to be shot from the creedmore postion. This year I discovered a wicked load for the 6BR using N540 powder and the 95 grain Combined Tech bullet.

Back to the striker, if you wanted to try long range hunting with it I would suggest fitting it with a bipod and a good pistol scope. Granted it is a strange creature but the 260 would make a gret antelope round. There is one area in Wyo that has a pistol or blackpowder only "lope" hunt that might get you in ahead of the regular season if you were lucky enough to draw a tag. Rifle Basics also makes a trigger for the striker that would reduce the heavy factory set up.

Or you could offer the pistol to me at a low ball price!!  

Bill also in Utah

[7br]

As Blackbear stated, the striker is too heavy as is.  However, since you would be playing in the unlimited arena, you can always remove enough stock to get it to weight.  I shot in New Mexico this summer and one of the competitors was shooting a Striker in .300 wsm.  He had drilled enough holes in the foreend of the stock that it whistled in the wind.  You might consider getting a spare stock first.  Looking at some of the pictures of Elgin Gates' firearms, pretty is as pretty does.

[K2]

Chunter

There is a new Silhouette game just around the corner and the Savage Striker will be a "legal" gun as it comes right out of the box.  very few people want to drill holes or carve up a brand new gun just to make some silly arbitrary weight limit in a game.  In Unlimited and especially in in Scoped Unlimited (UAS) perfect scores are extremely common so I have no idea why those in power in the established games keep the strikers out.  Seems silly to me.  

Just an aside, the run of the mill rifle guys at my range are interested in rifle silhouette with stock over the counter guns as well.  Get ready for a Silly Wet revivial soon  

Hey all,  I recently inherited a Savage Striker in .260.  I like the cartridge, but what is the purpose of this pistol? It seems that that pistol is to long to hunt with, and not long enough to use like a rifle.  Please enlighten me.

Thanks

[K2]

Chunter

Does the Striker have a muzzle brake?  If so does it have an off position or can it be adjusted right off the barrel?

The reason I ask is that about 50% of the shooters don't like shooting anywhere near a muzzle braked gun and I am hoping to accomadate them while also not eliminating the Striker.  Savage might also be interested in building a brakeless model as it would be less expensive to manufacture.  They might of course IF the gun was allowed to compete and of course it will be.  Weight limit either will not exist period or will be sufficiently high enough to allow all bolt guns currently in production to compete with a margin to boot  :wink:  

Chunter

There is a new Silhouette game just around the corner and the Savage Striker will be a "legal" gun as it comes right out of the box.  very few people want to drill holes or carve up a brand new gun just to make some silly arbitrary weight limit in a game.  In Unlimited and especially in in Scoped Unlimited (UAS) perfect scores are extremely common so I have no idea why those in power in the established games keep the strikers out.  Seems silly to me.  

Just an aside, the run of the mill rifle guys at my range are interested in rifle silhouette with stock over the counter guns as well.  Get ready for a Silly Wet revivial soon  

Hey all,  I recently inherited a Savage Striker in .260.  I like the cartridge, but what is the purpose of this pistol? It seems that that pistol is to long to hunt with, and not long enough to use like a rifle.  Please enlighten me.

Thanks

[DoC]

I had a thought of shooting silhouette matches and hunting as a boy reading American Rifleman and American Hunter.  Three years ago I finally bought a used 30-30 Contender without checking.  I then found that my club had quit high power pistol silhouette because the interest had died out, still haven’t checked the rules.  I then made up my mind that I really did want an XP-100.  
   Duh, Remington had dropped it in ‘98.  I’d decided on a 7-08 and couldn’t find one locally.  A shop from another town brought a new 260 to the gun show and I passed it for the price and the hope of a 7-08.  Two shows later the price got close to right and I bought it, two years ago.
   I’ve been shooting and hunting with my two hand rifles and really enjoying it.  Many times when I go to the club with friends I am shooting a pistol while they are shooting rifles.  They just wonder about me.  But I’m having a good time and they’re not really out shooting my pistols.  The ones that have shot them get a huge grin after the gun doesn’t hurt.  Then they shoot some more and the grin locks in.
   Now most of the guys in the deer club really wonder about me.  But they don’t wonder about results.  My buddy came in one day after dark really wishing he had something like the Contender.  He’s retired military and proficient with a handgun.  Seems Mr. Big had trotted right underneath him from out of nowhere.  He twisted and tried to do something, but him and his rifle couldn’t get together.
   Well, just how real is it.  As you can see, I’m not quick to make the purchase and the time investment.  About three weeks ago I came across a new store and inside I found a brand new XP in a 22-250.  I got my billfold away from there, but it was fifty dollars cheaper than my 260.  Two days later I brought it home.  Shoots great.  Had been thinking about a 22 Hornet for the Contender.  I’ve got 22-250 loads that go down to a 22 Magnum equivalent, and loads that are well into the 3000's through my Oehler.  (The 260 is well into the 2000's in whitetail loads.  Haven’t tried varmint 260 stuff yet.)
   What this has to do with your Stiker is that it is just a different brand of your gun.  You’ve already got it and it is unlimited.  Case in point, check out the 6.5x55 Swede.  It is a long proven cartridge on a lot of game/games.  The 6.5x55 Swede and the 260 Remington are say, fraternal twins, not identical, but way too close for a noticeable difference.
   Give it some time to get acquainted with it and have some fun.
   DoC
P.S.
akihmsa
   What is this new silhouette game?  Any details?

[Hawkeye]

I wouldn't take for my .260 in the rear grip XP.  :grin:  I have worked up a load that shoots under 3/4" at 100yds and 2" at 200yds. It will be the first to go into the woods for deer season but unitl then, it is going to a couple of Prairie Dog towns with some 90grn TNT HP's. I started making brass from some old .308 until I found a source for .260 brass. It likes about any 120grn bullet. If I were only shooting for groups, I would use the 120grn Ballistic tips cause they will group around 1/2" but another 1/4" with the less expensive Speer 120's is okay with me. I have a Burris 2x7 BP on it and was thinking about shooint sillywets this month but I will have to see if it is legal.
I know it will be a good whitetail round and coyotes when they show up.
Might even try the pistol only speed goat hunt in Wyoming. Might be worth putting in for.
Enjoy the .260 and if you get tired of it, get it rebarreled.

Mike

[K2]

HI DoC

It is a collaboration with fellow silhouetters that have noticed the decline in the sport and yet still enjoy silhouette shooting.  I tried to work within the IHMSA and it has become appearent that those in power are wanting to go in a continuing equipment race direction for all disciplines including the so called production area.  I have nothing against the wild and weird guns these folks want to use but for the sport to grow it needs to have an area for the equipment the vast majority of people own.  The new game will have a place for the custom guns to play but will also have a place for the millions of guns that the major manufacturers build.  The new game will include both pistol and rifle and will address why so many matches have shut down like the one in your area did.  Silhouette needs participation or the sheer weight of the targets become too much for a few to deal with.  The help re-spark silhouette in areas where there are only a few interested we will have sanctioned swinger and Paper target postal matches in addition to the normal falling steel target matches.  

Currently if you own a Ruger, a Smith or even a TC anymore the so called elite silhouette shooters believe you are  a "AK47 shooter" and are not really interested in accuracy or improving your skills.  I believe they are all wet and many people who own regular guns are in fact interested in shooting better but may not be interested in constantly upgrading equipment in order to stay competitive.  The group I shoot with uses over the counter equipment mostly with sights that come with the guns and we make it work pretty well.  In my last .22 match I eeked out a 37x40 with all stock equipment and promo Winchester ammo.  Would all match grade equipment improve the score?  Sure but to me it isn't worth it, I shoot for the recreation and will continue to do so.  

The serious "silhouette shooters" say a new association can't make it.  I think they are wrong.  What do you think??    

Let us know what things are important to you when shoping for a shooting sport organization and you might be pleasantly surprised  :wink:  

I had a thought of shooting silhouette matches and hunting as a boy reading American Rifleman and American Hunter.  Three years ago I finally bought a used 30-30 Contender without checking.  I then found that my club had quit high power pistol silhouette because the interest had died out, still haven’t checked the rules.  I then made up my mind that I really did want an XP-100.  
   Duh, Remington had dropped it in ‘98.  I’d decided on a 7-08 and couldn’t find one locally.  A shop from another town brought a new 260 to the gun show and I passed it for the price and the hope of a 7-08.  Two shows later the price got close to right and I bought it, two years ago.
   I’ve been shooting and hunting with my two hand rifles and really enjoying it.  Many times when I go to the club with friends I am shooting a pistol while they are shooting rifles.  They just wonder about me.  But I’m having a good time and they’re not really out shooting my pistols.  The ones that have shot them get a huge grin after the gun doesn’t hurt.  Then they shoot some more and the grin locks in.
   Now most of the guys in the deer club really wonder about me.  But they don’t wonder about results.  My buddy came in one day after dark really wishing he had something like the Contender.  He’s retired military and proficient with a handgun.  Seems Mr. Big had trotted right underneath him from out of nowhere.  He twisted and tried to do something, but him and his rifle couldn’t get together.
   Well, just how real is it.  As you can see, I’m not quick to make the purchase and the time investment.  About three weeks ago I came across a new store and inside I found a brand new XP in a 22-250.  I got my billfold away from there, but it was fifty dollars cheaper than my 260.  Two days later I brought it home.  Shoots great.  Had been thinking about a 22 Hornet for the Contender.  I’ve got 22-250 loads that go down to a 22 Magnum equivalent, and loads that are well into the 3000's through my Oehler.  (The 260 is well into the 2000's in whitetail loads.  Haven’t tried varmint 260 stuff yet.)
   What this has to do with your Stiker is that it is just a different brand of your gun.  You’ve already got it and it is unlimited.  Case in point, check out the 6.5x55 Swede.  It is a long proven cartridge on a lot of game/games.  The 6.5x55 Swede and the 260 Remington are say, fraternal twins, not identical, but way too close for a noticeable difference.
   Give it some time to get acquainted with it and have some fun.
   DoC
P.S.
akihmsa
   What is this new silhouette game?  Any details?