RiverRider
Handloader
- Dec 9, 2008
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The "search" function turned nothing up for this cartridge in this forum, so if this is redundant...well, uhhh, sorry. Maybe I need lessons on how to use the "search" function in addition to insight on this cartridge.
I'm looking for handload insights, but here's a little about the rifle...
I swapped into this rifle a couple of weeks ago and am getting it ready to shoot. The rifle is a custom built off a Mark X action. The trigger is the Yugoslavian-made fully adjustable trigger, and I have to admit this one has cooperated so well in the adjustment department that a Timney will not be required as I am perfectly satisfied with it (this was not my experience with the same trigger on a Remington 798). The barrel is a take-off, make unknown. I know this because the bottom side of the barrel has holes tapped where a rear sight once was mounted. The barrel length is 23-1/2" so I am pretty sure is was once probably a 26-inch barrel. The stock is an older (I think) Bell & Carlson fiberglass, the type with the sling pivots integrated into recesses in the bottom of the stock, no swivels and no studs.
The bedding was laughably atrocious. I knew I'd be refinishing it, BUT! Someone globbed a bunch of epoxy in the area around the recoil lug. I am pretty sure there was little if any contact with the barrel in the area forward of the recoil lug, and I was definitely not impressed with any of the "bedding job" that had been inflicted on the poor girl. I have completely redone it, in fact I have revamped the stock entirely. I have developed a method of bedding a 98 Mauser action so that the bottom metal is snugly in contact with the underside of the action with the guard screw completely tightened, thereby taking advantage of the "pillar" the bottom metal is endowed with and in such a way that there is no stress on the action. If done right, I believe it is completely "stress neutral" (I've done this on my other two 98-based rifles and they shoot *lights out*). On this B&C stock, it turned out to be a lot more work than I anticipated but I am nearing completion on it.
Anyway...enough about the rifle!
I am planning to shoot 95- or 100-grain Partitions (I sure hope it likes them!) propelled by either Ramshot Magnum or H4831SC. I am willing to try H1000 if either of those two powders don't preform.
I am aware of the need to check neck clearance and I have some cases that were fired in this rifle so I can check this stuff out without taking unnecessary risk.
If anyone has used these powders with 95-grain Partitions in 6-284, I'd appreciate any insights or suggestions.
I'm looking for handload insights, but here's a little about the rifle...
I swapped into this rifle a couple of weeks ago and am getting it ready to shoot. The rifle is a custom built off a Mark X action. The trigger is the Yugoslavian-made fully adjustable trigger, and I have to admit this one has cooperated so well in the adjustment department that a Timney will not be required as I am perfectly satisfied with it (this was not my experience with the same trigger on a Remington 798). The barrel is a take-off, make unknown. I know this because the bottom side of the barrel has holes tapped where a rear sight once was mounted. The barrel length is 23-1/2" so I am pretty sure is was once probably a 26-inch barrel. The stock is an older (I think) Bell & Carlson fiberglass, the type with the sling pivots integrated into recesses in the bottom of the stock, no swivels and no studs.
The bedding was laughably atrocious. I knew I'd be refinishing it, BUT! Someone globbed a bunch of epoxy in the area around the recoil lug. I am pretty sure there was little if any contact with the barrel in the area forward of the recoil lug, and I was definitely not impressed with any of the "bedding job" that had been inflicted on the poor girl. I have completely redone it, in fact I have revamped the stock entirely. I have developed a method of bedding a 98 Mauser action so that the bottom metal is snugly in contact with the underside of the action with the guard screw completely tightened, thereby taking advantage of the "pillar" the bottom metal is endowed with and in such a way that there is no stress on the action. If done right, I believe it is completely "stress neutral" (I've done this on my other two 98-based rifles and they shoot *lights out*). On this B&C stock, it turned out to be a lot more work than I anticipated but I am nearing completion on it.
Anyway...enough about the rifle!
I am planning to shoot 95- or 100-grain Partitions (I sure hope it likes them!) propelled by either Ramshot Magnum or H4831SC. I am willing to try H1000 if either of those two powders don't preform.
I am aware of the need to check neck clearance and I have some cases that were fired in this rifle so I can check this stuff out without taking unnecessary risk.
If anyone has used these powders with 95-grain Partitions in 6-284, I'd appreciate any insights or suggestions.
