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30-284 part deux.... and another?
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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 2914795" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>I also got lured into the 30-284 thought, I shoot Highpower and use a ruger precision rifle in 260 to do that. Since using that rifle for 5 years I got used to it and really appreciate Ruger's design it is very good. So I bought another ruger and stuck a 6.5x284 reamer in the factory barrel and used it to hunt. One day last year I took both ruger rifles to a 600 yd match and my 260 ruger was only 50 fps slower than the 6.5x284 at the 600 yd line according to the electronic target, I would guess due to the factory barrel being 24 inches and my 260 almost 28 inches. Last year I killed a very big mule deer with the 6.5x284 rifle about 200yds away with 140 sierra game king and shot him in the neck near the shoulder, he went down very hard like a sledge hammer wacked him then I walked up to him and he got up and tryed to leave but couldn't really make his body work right so I shot him again but I really don't like seeing them struggle hurt like that which is why I choose the neck it usually works very well, at any rate we couldn't find a hole in that deer anywhere from that first bullet and we process the meat ourselves and looked hard for that bullet and all we found was some very small pieces of jacket so I guess it blew up on the hide. So I decided to change the rifle to 30-284 to use it for elk also and got a reamer from PTG and put it in a Xcaliber barrel and managed to get about 27 inches of barrel after the machining. I started trying to find a load with my oal limited to the magazine, I think it was 2.960 and was not having any luck getting below 1 moa for 5 shots, I had fluted the barrel so there was a question mark, but finally after just neck sizing the brass it started to shoot very well, 1/2 to 5/8 moa 5 shot groups, very strange. I measured the brass and near the shoulder the full length die reduced the diameter .007 which I think is a bit too much near the base only .001 to .002. so neck sizing is what we do for this rifle. I took it to a practice match last week and the hunting loads stayed in the 10 or x ring for 12 shots then the loads with 190 sierra mk's shot 9 x's an one 10 for 10 shots, very nice so I am very happy now but early on trying to make it shoot I thought I had made a mistake with this set up</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 2914795, member: 116633"] I also got lured into the 30-284 thought, I shoot Highpower and use a ruger precision rifle in 260 to do that. Since using that rifle for 5 years I got used to it and really appreciate Ruger's design it is very good. So I bought another ruger and stuck a 6.5x284 reamer in the factory barrel and used it to hunt. One day last year I took both ruger rifles to a 600 yd match and my 260 ruger was only 50 fps slower than the 6.5x284 at the 600 yd line according to the electronic target, I would guess due to the factory barrel being 24 inches and my 260 almost 28 inches. Last year I killed a very big mule deer with the 6.5x284 rifle about 200yds away with 140 sierra game king and shot him in the neck near the shoulder, he went down very hard like a sledge hammer wacked him then I walked up to him and he got up and tryed to leave but couldn't really make his body work right so I shot him again but I really don't like seeing them struggle hurt like that which is why I choose the neck it usually works very well, at any rate we couldn't find a hole in that deer anywhere from that first bullet and we process the meat ourselves and looked hard for that bullet and all we found was some very small pieces of jacket so I guess it blew up on the hide. So I decided to change the rifle to 30-284 to use it for elk also and got a reamer from PTG and put it in a Xcaliber barrel and managed to get about 27 inches of barrel after the machining. I started trying to find a load with my oal limited to the magazine, I think it was 2.960 and was not having any luck getting below 1 moa for 5 shots, I had fluted the barrel so there was a question mark, but finally after just neck sizing the brass it started to shoot very well, 1/2 to 5/8 moa 5 shot groups, very strange. I measured the brass and near the shoulder the full length die reduced the diameter .007 which I think is a bit too much near the base only .001 to .002. so neck sizing is what we do for this rifle. I took it to a practice match last week and the hunting loads stayed in the 10 or x ring for 12 shots then the loads with 190 sierra mk's shot 9 x's an one 10 for 10 shots, very nice so I am very happy now but early on trying to make it shoot I thought I had made a mistake with this set up [/QUOTE]
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