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Newtosavage
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Been pulling my hair out over this .284 Win build for months now, just not getting the velocities I expected from a case that holds 10 grains more powder than my 7mm-08. Finally, while searching for more information about the round I came across a video by Ron Spomer, one of the earliest adopters of the .284 Win for hunting in a lightweight rifle. He mentioned that he "pretty much hit it on his first load" which was 140 grain bullets over 56 grains of IMR 4350. So I found some IMR 4350 and 140 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips (using them for load workup until I can find some 140 grain Accubonds) and voila!
1/2" group at an impressive 2990 fps. Not too shabby. That's what I had hoped for when I had the .284 Win barrel made for this rifle. Good thing I hung on to it.
The barrel is a stainless 21" X-Caliber featherweight contour and it sits in a Savage LWS stainless action. The rifle is just 6 lbs. 2 oz. bare and exactly 7 lbs. scoped.
I had been trying Hunter and IMR 4955 (couldn't find H4831) without much luck. Ol' Ron was right. IMR 4350 is the ticket for these 140-class bullets in the .284 Win. Fortunately it's been coming back in stock and I have enough now to last me a while.
1/2" group at an impressive 2990 fps. Not too shabby. That's what I had hoped for when I had the .284 Win barrel made for this rifle. Good thing I hung on to it.
The barrel is a stainless 21" X-Caliber featherweight contour and it sits in a Savage LWS stainless action. The rifle is just 6 lbs. 2 oz. bare and exactly 7 lbs. scoped.
I had been trying Hunter and IMR 4955 (couldn't find H4831) without much luck. Ol' Ron was right. IMR 4350 is the ticket for these 140-class bullets in the .284 Win. Fortunately it's been coming back in stock and I have enough now to last me a while.