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Not with the way I do load development!

John

I think after a couple hundred rounds, the Hawkeye borescope would tell all...

DF

Can't be worst than a 7 Shooting Times DF.Thinkin this barrel burner stuff is moot anyway,as far as hunting rifles are concerned.

My barrel burners are hunters not paper punchers if ya catch my drift..grin

So much can be done without burning large amounts of powder and barrels...

I hear that..

As I've previously posted, my 6.5-284 shows early throat erosion thru the Hawkeye after 400 rounds or so down the tube. But, it's still a solid 1/2 MOA performer. As a hunting rifle, it should last a long time, as you pointed out...

Some of those rounds were used in load development. Now that I have a high performing load that I plan to stick with, there's no need to keep on blasting away. I have other guns for that.

DF

6.5-06.. better bbl life than the 6.5X284 and the same performance.

I have had/have several of both. The 6.5-06 does everything the fatter more expensive 6.5X284 does ;-)

Why do you think that happens?

Is it the short neck? .300 WM has a short neck, is a relatively high performance round and doesn't seem to be that bad a throat eroding round.

Curious.

DF

The one who builds my rifles said that exactly. Longer neck and shoulder geometry play a benificial roll.

My 300 winny's were toast at about 2400 rounds.

Neat thing is the 6.5-06 can run with the winny... ;-)

140 berger or 139 scenar doing 3000 fps... run it on a ballistic calc.

I chose the 6.5-284, as it was the LR shooter's darling at the time. It may edge the 6.5-06 in precision according to their info.

To get the fatter .284 case to feed, the action will need some tweaking and the follower milled for that round.

With the 6.5-06, just load'em and shoot'em.

Having owned and shot both, do your 6.5-284's group slightly tighter than your 6.5-06's, on the average? Just currious, as for a hunting rifle, a small difference wouldn't matter.

DF

I've shot (for record) a 4.1" group with the 6.5-284 in 1K BR

My hunting 6.5X284's never could do that.

I've shot 1" groups at 550 yards with my huntnig weight 6.5-06's

I really don't think accuracy goes to one or the other. I feel the accuracy is in fact directly related to this.

The smith
The barrel
The hand load
The nut behind the wheel

Cocadori,

This is a short post, but says volumes.

I am encouraged by this because my newest wildcat has a .200" neck. It needs only its salt bath nitride finish before it is killing paper and hopefully game next season. I am hoping to match .257 Roy velocity with an ultralight rifle.

Thanks, that's the info I was looking for.

DF