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I thought I'd heard of one standard 99 that had been converted to 284.. but maybe I'm mis-remembering? But another prototype 284 is out there somewhere with an RD serial. I have held in my hands a 99DL in 284 that had an "RD" prefix. I believe that either Jed, or Jed's buddy Lynn, may own that rifle or may have owned it. I was contemplating buying it when a hand reached past me and snatched it out of the rack at the Kittery Trading Post about 27 or 28 years ago. There were 3 RD prefix 99s in the rack, a 22-250 99C, a 284 99DL, and a 375 99A. I bought the 22-250, SN RD1041, held onto it for a few years and sold it to fund some since forgotten project. What I would LOVE to know about the .284 RD gun is whether or not it had the snap ring rotor retention or the cross screw, or both.
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The 35-300 prototype barrel had no markings.
Roy the 450 I built is based off a standard receiver starting life as a 243 win. So the receiver looks exactly like your .284 having both the snap ring cut and holes for the screw. So from the factory one side comes threaded and the other is just a through hole is your off side tapped for a filler screw?
The snap ring groove needed to be very exact, special tooling and fixtures purchased. It was done on a CNC mill with a very experienced machinist at the helm.
I don't want to change that rifle of yours.
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The 35-300 prototype barrel had no markings.
Roy the 450 I built is based off a standard receiver starting life as a 243 win. So the receiver looks exactly like your .284 having both the snap ring cut and holes for the screw. So from the factory one side comes threaded and the other is just a through hole is your off side tapped for a filler screw?
The snap ring groove needed to be very exact, special tooling and fixtures purchased. It was done on a CNC mill with a very experienced machinist at the helm.
I don't want to change that rifle of yours. The cross screw on the 284 is just a standard cross screw, no filler screw. I've also got the 30-284 99E it wouldn't be a big loss to make that one a 450.
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So I had assumed that the rotary magazine 284 front C-clip retainer was part of accommodating a longer-than-308 rotor. Do these cross-rotor screw 284s still line up the front of the rotor bell with the cross screw? (like a 284 rotor would fit in a 308 receiver?). And How do the C-clip rotors adjust for rotor tension?
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So the front clip/spring was to accommodate the larger diameter cartridge and memory says went to holding 4 only. The larger diameter interferes with the internal rotor spring. One could design a drop in rotor that could still use the screw but would need to think differently than the savage r&d dept.
With 3 d printers may be doable?
Your 410 rotor must be very close to the internal spring?
Edit to add finally got over for the birds eye schutzen the Covid was going around there so I stayed away. That critter is amazing! Thank You.
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Yes, the ruthlessly modified .410 rotor exposed the center spring, and the internal walls and belly of the receiver were also ground back to accommodate the large diameter rounds..., not good engineering, especially for high-pressure rounds...
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The rotary magazine 284 holds four rounds. The detachable magazine version holds three.
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I have a cut checkering 99 in 284, I'll dig it out and check the serial #.
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My 284 is a cut checkered F 1073182
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