Thread: 284 Winchester with RL 26

Originally Posted by Gerardo

Just to close the loop on this, 59grs of RL26, average speed of 3029ft/s, SD of 2 over 7 rounds. 160gr TMK. 25.5 inch barrel.
Accurate and happy.
Thank you to all!

Thats great, but doesn't surprise me. From the playing ive done with re26 its a pretty awesome powder.

Good result.

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

@Gerardo

Wow that's impressive.

Not that I dont like 7mm mag. But man that is one hell of a load performance wise for the amount of powder burnt.

It had a bit more to give speed wise, as there are no signs of pressure at all at that charge (for my rifle obviously) however, a deer won't know the difference if its going a bit faster or not. The advice I was given, is that if a 284 is set up correctly, it would be there or thereabouts with a rem mag, not use as much powder, and have a far better barrel life expectancy. I'm pretty happy with it.

Originally Posted by Gerardo

It had a bit more to give speed wise, as there are no signs of pressure at all at that charge (for my rifle obviously) however, a deer won't know the difference if its going a bit faster or not. The advice I was given, is that if a 284 is set up correctly, it would be there or thereabouts with a rem mag, not use as much powder, and have a far better barrel life expectancy. I'm pretty happy with it.

It's a very efficient cartridge, and as you say if set up right so you can run the bullets seated out in the neck and not taking up powder capacity it can perform extremely well for the powder burnt compared to the larger cases. Great cartridge, if rifles chambered in it originally had been built to suit the longer COAL it surely would still be being chambered in factory rifles today.