Anyone have any dealings with Quality Cartridge as to brass for their .284 win.? I see they are showing it as in stock.(www.qual-cart.com) .It aint cheap but it's not easy to find either.

No experience with Quality Cartridge but if you're looking for a less expensive option Powder Valley has Winchester brass in stock.
https://www.powdervalleyinc.com/product/winchester-284-50/


Lee

Quality Cartridge was always a source for correct headstamp (they even had 270 Redding!), but like Polecat, I never tried it.

Go for the Winchester, it works, and lasts! Or resize Lapua 6.5 x 284 for quality and consistency.

If anyone is interested, I have 11 boxes of .284 that I am selling.
Let me know.
Bob

loaded ammo or empty brass?

Hello Jiggdog, sent a message to your mailbox a while back. Have a look please.
Jim

As a 284 win user since the early 80s, it is amazing to see so many manufacturers now making what was considered.for a while, an obsolete cartridge. Just looked at Graff's. They offer quality cartridge, Winchester, Hornady, Norma and Peterson.

I remember when Winchester said they would stop regular production with an occasional run of the 284 win and that was it.

The 6.5-284 seems to have found a niche with long range shooters and may be more popular than the 284 ever was.

I've put together several rifles chambered for 284-based wildcats and rather like the 25-284, 6.5-284, and 338-284, but think that they are better suited for an intermediate or long action, rather than the short actions that it is typically built on,due to their COAL restrictions. The 6-284, 25-284, start running into COAL issues when using bullets longer than the cup and core 100 grain component bullets that are commonly available.

I know a marketing guy at Winchester/Olin who has told me that 284 ammo and component brass are and has been on an irregular, "seasonal", production run schedule for years due to the relatively low demand. They consider it to be a semi-obsolete cartridge, along with other low sales volume cartridges like the 22 Hornet, 218 Bee, 25-20, 25-35, 257 Roberts, 25 WSSM, etc. They employ a pull marketing scheme with existing product lines, where consumer demand dictates what they produce, and a push scheme on new products so that it is available on retailers' shelves to tempt the customer into buying it. Whenever Winchester/Olin has introduced a new cartridge, or line of cartridges, they have pushed ammo onto dealer shelves in an effort to create a demand, but once the sales of a cartridge level off or decline, they retract the variety of bullet styles and only keep those that are selling in production.

Manufacturers have very little loyalty toward customers who purchased firearms chambered for cartridges with their names on them and if projected sales don't happen, a cartridge can become an orphan before it has really has a chance to take root. Recent examples would be the SAUM line from Remington and the WSSM line from W/O.