Hello Guys
I too have a Savage 111 in 65-284 I done a lot of testing back on January Sought advise on here back then. I could not get any satisfactory results using 4831 and Berger 140'S. I finally got a bit Frustrated and set it a side. I decided to start over and give another try. I am no expert by any means but I have loaded for rfile's 20 or more years. I recently aquired about 150 rounds of new and once fired winchester 284 brass. Before I was using Nosler 65-284 Brass. I thought i would test both. I necked down some of the 284 to use. I wanted to start fresh so I wanted to get a OAL for both the empty cases both mesure the exact same using digtal calipers to Trim lenght then using Computator to measure to sholder as well.
Here is a problem I incountered getting a chamber length to start from. I tried 3 different cases of each Winchester and Nosler. Seating the bullets long and then chambering to get a length (Method I have always used) I get 3220 using the Nosler cases and 3197 on the Win. I even tried using the same bullet in the respective cases. I also used Hornady Computator set to mesure to the ogive and still am getting .022 different in length. I own a Machine shop and know how to use Calipers. But it has me stumped I tried it over and over getting the same results. I can't figure out where the difference is coming in. Does any one have any thoughts?
I too have a Savage 111 in 65-284 I done a lot of testing back on January Sought advise on here back then. I could not get any satisfactory results using 4831 and Berger 140'S. I finally got a bit Frustrated and set it a side. I decided to start over and give another try. I am no expert by any means but I have loaded for rfile's 20 or more years. I recently aquired about 150 rounds of new and once fired winchester 284 brass. Before I was using Nosler 65-284 Brass. I thought i would test both. I necked down some of the 284 to use. I wanted to start fresh so I wanted to get a OAL for both the empty cases both mesure the exact same using digtal calipers to Trim lenght then using Computator to measure to sholder as well.
Here is a problem I incountered getting a chamber length to start from. I tried 3 different cases of each Winchester and Nosler. Seating the bullets long and then chambering to get a length (Method I have always used) I get 3220 using the Nosler cases and 3197 on the Win. I even tried using the same bullet in the respective cases. I also used Hornady Computator set to mesure to the ogive and still am getting .022 different in length. I own a Machine shop and know how to use Calipers. But it has me stumped I tried it over and over getting the same results. I can't figure out where the difference is coming in. Does any one have any thoughts?
