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Midweight 7's in a SA Savage
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<blockquote data-quote="catamountsierra" data-source="post: 2001913" data-attributes="member: 79865"><p>I started out with a Remington 700 SA in 7mm-08. The longest I could feed in the factory mag box was 2.825". I ran a 140AB at 2825 or a 150ABLR at 2750. I sent it off to the gun smith because it simply wouldn't shoot anything better than about 1.5MOA and it became a 284Win. The Wyatt's mag box lets me feed at 2.995", which is a marked improvement over the factory box. Right now I am running the 165TGK at 2832 and the 168ABLR at 2795 from a 25" barrel. I'm not putting the ogive inside the mouth, but they are only 0.082" and 0.077", respectively, above the case mouth, and those bullets stick a long way into the case. I can definitely see the 284 having a lot more potential in a long action, but like you I had a short action to work with. As to brass, I originally picked up 400 of the cheap Winchester bagged stuff when it showed up, as that was the only stuff I could find at the time. 400 cases gave me 100 inside a 1gr weight spread. Norma seems to do occasional runs of the 284 brass, and I managed to pick up 200 of those cases (all 200 had a total weight spread of 1.2gr) and the brass is much higher quality than the cheap Winchester stuff. I had been looking at necking up the 6.5-284 Lapua brass, but then Norma put out a run of their stuff. I definitely am pleased with the 284Win.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catamountsierra, post: 2001913, member: 79865"] I started out with a Remington 700 SA in 7mm-08. The longest I could feed in the factory mag box was 2.825". I ran a 140AB at 2825 or a 150ABLR at 2750. I sent it off to the gun smith because it simply wouldn't shoot anything better than about 1.5MOA and it became a 284Win. The Wyatt's mag box lets me feed at 2.995", which is a marked improvement over the factory box. Right now I am running the 165TGK at 2832 and the 168ABLR at 2795 from a 25" barrel. I'm not putting the ogive inside the mouth, but they are only 0.082" and 0.077", respectively, above the case mouth, and those bullets stick a long way into the case. I can definitely see the 284 having a lot more potential in a long action, but like you I had a short action to work with. As to brass, I originally picked up 400 of the cheap Winchester bagged stuff when it showed up, as that was the only stuff I could find at the time. 400 cases gave me 100 inside a 1gr weight spread. Norma seems to do occasional runs of the 284 brass, and I managed to pick up 200 of those cases (all 200 had a total weight spread of 1.2gr) and the brass is much higher quality than the cheap Winchester stuff. I had been looking at necking up the 6.5-284 Lapua brass, but then Norma put out a run of their stuff. I definitely am pleased with the 284Win. [/QUOTE]
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