I'm new to this one. What is available for factory ammo? Is it readily available? Is it as costly as some of the other rare ones? Do you reload? Is the brass readily available? How about the dyes and bullet selection etc? For venison take down, what do you use? Thanks for any info and tips that you can provide.
who shoots 284 Win?
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Not much for factory ammo....haven't seen any in years.
Brass is tricky too, if you can't find .284 Win you can use 6.5x284 Norma/Lapua which is more plentiful but expensive.
Dies are easy to find....and bullets are your standard 7mm/.284 so lots of options there.
Brass is tricky too, if you can't find .284 Win you can use 6.5x284 Norma/Lapua which is more plentiful but expensive.
Dies are easy to find....and bullets are your standard 7mm/.284 so lots of options there.
Every 4 - 5 years, Winchester does a small run of 284 Ammo.
You can use any offering from them as long as it is the 150 grain Power Point.
Brass is as Hitzy says.
If I were to use it solely as a deer rifle, I would load it with a decent 139/140 grain bullet, and hunt away.
Regards, Dave.
You can use any offering from them as long as it is the 150 grain Power Point.
Brass is as Hitzy says.
If I were to use it solely as a deer rifle, I would load it with a decent 139/140 grain bullet, and hunt away.
Regards, Dave.
fingers284
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I have owned 2 and the old man had one until he passed...had to pry it from his cold dead hands so to speak. We always had other cartridges around that came and went as the fads changed but always had a .284 in the house.
We used them on coyotes, deer, elk and moose and never lost an animal with that cartridge.
As others have already stated, factory hard to come by, brass shows up periodically, usually a box or two at gun shows and once you get some brass, it is a handloaders dream...brass lasts a long time...some of my brass is from the original purchase in 1968 and I know it has been loaded a lot.
We used them on coyotes, deer, elk and moose and never lost an animal with that cartridge.
As others have already stated, factory hard to come by, brass shows up periodically, usually a box or two at gun shows and once you get some brass, it is a handloaders dream...brass lasts a long time...some of my brass is from the original purchase in 1968 and I know it has been loaded a lot.
I'm sitting on a few hundred that I bought a bunch of years ago to load my 7.5x55....there was even less of the 7.5 brass around then....
.284 Win is a neat round, but it has the 7mm-08, 7x57, 280 Rem, 7x64, and 7mm Rem mag to compete with just to name a few...
.284 Win is a neat round, but it has the 7mm-08, 7x57, 280 Rem, 7x64, and 7mm Rem mag to compete with just to name a few...
Who has it in kelowna?
pete dobinson
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Brass can be hard to find, as others have stated. I haven't had any trouble finding it though, I've also got a lot of it. Bullets will be seated deeply on a short action, so flat based 139 gr hornady's work well. Sierra 140's have the right shape, they're a little stubbier than some of the other manufacturers. On a long action you can take advantage of the longer bullets. H4831sc works well for my 284. My rifle is a browning micro medallion. I've planned on having a rifle built on the 284 win case, haven't gotten to it yet. One day, lol.
My 284 is a early Factory original 70's Ruger M77 flat bolt shooting hand loaded 140gr NolserPT with 56 grs IMR 4350 have shoot everything from deer-moose-elk- bear -sheep
Its a out +out pull the trigger cut your tag type rifle . Love it and its not for sale !!!!
Its a out +out pull the trigger cut your tag type rifle . Love it and its not for sale !!!!
yikes! Well hows about you deliver the rifle along with a few years supply of ammo by jet plane or Grey Hound bus to SE MB? You can stay as long as you want at my place and do your school class by corisopondance.
say what?oh Lord a liven, you have a Micro in it, do you wanna go to Hawaii for 2 yrs? PM me!
yikes! Well hows about you deliver the rifle along with a few years supply of ammo by jet plane or Grey Hound bus to SE MB? You can stay as long as you want at my place and do your school class by corisopondance.
AHAHAHA, well hey, you get the 20 rounds I have with the rifle virtually for free which is pretty cool. I was gonna setup for reloading the .284 cause its just such a badass round but can't afford me no reloading supplies cause of school!!!!!..... You'll love the rifle bud trust me its a classic that packs a mean punch.
Winchester brass it plentiful. If your using it for hunting a bag of 50 should last you years. Years.
Super high BC bullets are everywhere.
I love my .284. In a long action you can comfortably mag and chamber 190 with no issue. You can load down as far as you want. My next hunting rifle build will be a .284 for sure.
Super high BC bullets are everywhere.
I love my .284. In a long action you can comfortably mag and chamber 190 with no issue. You can load down as far as you want. My next hunting rifle build will be a .284 for sure.
I built my 284 on a Rem 600 for a lightweight hunting rifle. Opened up the mag box opening in the bottom and extended the mag box (you can buy all these parts now) so that I could extend the COL out to 3.2" if memory serves. Light taper 23" Shilen barrel. Bedded into a wildcat stock. Drives tacks and pushes 150 gr bullets over 2900 fps. All I could ask for in a hunting rifle. Light and powerful. Great cartridge. - dan
pete dobinson
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- Courtenay BC.
oh Lord a liven, you have a Micro in it, do you wanna go to Hawaii for 2 yrs? PM me!
My wife said she'd love to. lol.
Got two of them, both customs on long actions. One a Rem700 the other a Stiller Tac300. Both set up for long range range fun, the Rem is my son's and the Stiller is mine. Convinced a hunting buddy to do one as well, he has the barrel ordered and is trying to decide if he uses his old Sako for a donor action or go to a Defiance or Stiller. I have both Winchester and Lapua brass, the Winchester is proper head stamped stuff and the Lapua is 6.5X284 that I just ran over the expander ball of my dies and reloaded and fire formed. The 284 winchester is a real hammer, I throw the 180 Lapua Scenars out of the Stiller and it only takes 8.8 mils to make it to 1000 meters, and it cranks the steel like a magnum. I would love to build one on a hunting rifle platform and shoot some critters with it, I think you would have some serious knock down power in your hands!
oh Lord a liven, you have a Micro in it, do you wanna go to Hawaii for 2 yrs? PM me!
I have the same rifle. Bought it for my son while he was still in the womb. Shot my first buck with a borrowed .284 and thought it would be cool for my sons first rifle to be the same cartridge.
TS
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- St. Joe's Island, Ont
Got a Savage 99C in 284.
Maybe 100 brass and dies for it but haven't reloaded yet because I found an old gunshop with 4 boxes of 150 gr Win Silvertips, bought all four of them at $25 a box. Just on the last box now but since I bought a 110 WLE I haven't taken the 99 out again.
Thanks for the load data though Dr. Who.
Maybe 100 brass and dies for it but haven't reloaded yet because I found an old gunshop with 4 boxes of 150 gr Win Silvertips, bought all four of them at $25 a box. Just on the last box now but since I bought a 110 WLE I haven't taken the 99 out again.
Thanks for the load data though Dr. Who.
