140 VLD hunting , still building a 6.5 SAUM, because its even better, but gotta wonder if the burnt up barrel in 800 rounds thing doesn't come from the benchrest world , dumping rounds out as fast as you can to beat wind conditions? Anyways , just wondered if anyone else was seeing this kind of life out of theirs. I think the 6.5x284 has developed a bad rep. for some and for some reasons that may not altogether necessarily be true.