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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 2198260" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>Well it does have great accuracy potential. But...</p><p></p><p>it picks up copper like hell even though I cleaned every shot for 8 shots</p><p></p><p>It has zero freebore. It does look like it has a low angle leade though. Anyway, seating a 180gr Hornady interlock right at the lands puts the base of the bullet at the body shoulder junction, eating up a ton of case capacity. I did explicitly say I wanted to shoot 180 and 200gr bullets and be able to utilize the extra mag length in a Tikka action. This seems to be throated for a 150gr flat base to be seated on the lands. </p><p></p><p>It is a minimum chamber size, even though I was told it was a normal hunting tolerance reamer. My Peterson cases are 284 Winchester, virgin. I FL sized them with an rcbs 30-284 die and it put them about 0.001 under saami max cartridge size (in the body) for a 284win. Since there's no saami for max chamber neck for a 30-284, I looked at the 300win mag neck spec. It's something like 0.342ish. mine, with a bullet seated, is 0.339 max. Ok, cases on the large end of saami. Well, every one of my cartridges was hard to chamber and a couple of them I could barely chamber. Then, I had hard primary extractions. A very hard 2nd phase if primary extraction, the 2nd camming that is felt on lifting the bolt. The chamber scratches my cases, leaves a couple small gouges in certain spots, and actually presses the turned surface finish into my cases. First time I've seen that. </p><p></p><p>So, while the burrs did actually get knocked off and it seems to be accurate, I'm not happy about the chamber sizing and roughness. I didn't exactly say I want 0.200 freebore and a middle of the road specd chamber, but I did say I wanted to shoot 200gr bullets in it and it's for hunting and precision shooting for fun and I don't want a minimum match type chamber. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, awesome, it seems to shoot well. It's useless to me as a hunting rifle. I left a message, hopefully he'll work with me to make it right and what I want, rather than what he thinks I need. </p><p></p><p>For a resolution, I think I'll just have to have him ream it again with a different reamer, because I don't want a minimum spec chamber. I know that sounds silly, because there is no soec for 30-284. But, I would think that the case body specs would at least fit the saami 284win. Does anyone know of a reamer that I could hopefully rent (I'll buy if I have to and resell) and have it match what I'm looking for?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 2198260, member: 109994"] Well it does have great accuracy potential. But... it picks up copper like hell even though I cleaned every shot for 8 shots It has zero freebore. It does look like it has a low angle leade though. Anyway, seating a 180gr Hornady interlock right at the lands puts the base of the bullet at the body shoulder junction, eating up a ton of case capacity. I did explicitly say I wanted to shoot 180 and 200gr bullets and be able to utilize the extra mag length in a Tikka action. This seems to be throated for a 150gr flat base to be seated on the lands. It is a minimum chamber size, even though I was told it was a normal hunting tolerance reamer. My Peterson cases are 284 Winchester, virgin. I FL sized them with an rcbs 30-284 die and it put them about 0.001 under saami max cartridge size (in the body) for a 284win. Since there's no saami for max chamber neck for a 30-284, I looked at the 300win mag neck spec. It's something like 0.342ish. mine, with a bullet seated, is 0.339 max. Ok, cases on the large end of saami. Well, every one of my cartridges was hard to chamber and a couple of them I could barely chamber. Then, I had hard primary extractions. A very hard 2nd phase if primary extraction, the 2nd camming that is felt on lifting the bolt. The chamber scratches my cases, leaves a couple small gouges in certain spots, and actually presses the turned surface finish into my cases. First time I've seen that. So, while the burrs did actually get knocked off and it seems to be accurate, I'm not happy about the chamber sizing and roughness. I didn't exactly say I want 0.200 freebore and a middle of the road specd chamber, but I did say I wanted to shoot 200gr bullets in it and it's for hunting and precision shooting for fun and I don't want a minimum match type chamber. Anyway, awesome, it seems to shoot well. It's useless to me as a hunting rifle. I left a message, hopefully he'll work with me to make it right and what I want, rather than what he thinks I need. For a resolution, I think I'll just have to have him ream it again with a different reamer, because I don't want a minimum spec chamber. I know that sounds silly, because there is no soec for 30-284. But, I would think that the case body specs would at least fit the saami 284win. Does anyone know of a reamer that I could hopefully rent (I'll buy if I have to and resell) and have it match what I'm looking for? [/QUOTE]
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