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<blockquote data-quote="Timnterra" data-source="post: 2959007" data-attributes="member: 55944"><p>I realize this thread is over a year old but I just wanted to share some 284 Winchester love. I built one for my wife to take elk hunting it's a sweet little rifle that weighs in at 7lbs even ready to hunt with scope and everything. I started by fireforming some brass to get the first 100 round through it to let the barrel settle in. I had a couple boxes of 160gr game kings that a friend gave me so I decided to use them for the task. I was surprised when I fired an initial pressure ladder and all 10 rounds wound up in two separate 1/2" 5shot groups one about 1" higher than the other. I ran a OCW test and every group was 1/2" so I picked the one in the middle and went shooting. I had no problem banging steel out to 600yds and ended up using it for a deer hunt this year. The old school inferior bullet design really impressed me when I watched the deer drop in my scope at 350yds. The BC is actually not that bad for an old school lead tipped bullet. Sierra claims.470 g1 and that played out well with my ballistic calculator and real world drops. I'm actually really happy with the little 284 Winchester, it's like hitting the easy button for load development and recoil was really not bad at all. I might have to build my wife a different rifle and keep this one.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timnterra, post: 2959007, member: 55944"] I realize this thread is over a year old but I just wanted to share some 284 Winchester love. I built one for my wife to take elk hunting it’s a sweet little rifle that weighs in at 7lbs even ready to hunt with scope and everything. I started by fireforming some brass to get the first 100 round through it to let the barrel settle in. I had a couple boxes of 160gr game kings that a friend gave me so I decided to use them for the task. I was surprised when I fired an initial pressure ladder and all 10 rounds wound up in two separate 1/2” 5shot groups one about 1” higher than the other. I ran a OCW test and every group was 1/2” so I picked the one in the middle and went shooting. I had no problem banging steel out to 600yds and ended up using it for a deer hunt this year. The old school inferior bullet design really impressed me when I watched the deer drop in my scope at 350yds. The BC is actually not that bad for an old school lead tipped bullet. Sierra claims.470 g1 and that played out well with my ballistic calculator and real world drops. I’m actually really happy with the little 284 Winchester, it’s like hitting the easy button for load development and recoil was really not bad at all. I might have to build my wife a different rifle and keep this one.😂 [/QUOTE]
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