Thread: New Shooter

Good stuff Hamish, looks like it came out good!

Blood neat cartridge eh, its ballistic ability with heavy-ish pills is surprising good (and far batter than the loading manuals indicate) when bullets are seated out nice and long. Ive been keen on the 284 for a few years now, and was ready to press go on a 284 build a couple of years back, but a Mod 7 in 7mm SAUM came up far cheaper than cost to build which i couldnt resist, and it was a shooter so happy as with that.

When Kimjon listed his M595 284 for sale the other day, i also could resist ;-) Ive just started playing with loads for it using the Amax. Ive seated nice and long @ just under 3.2" QL tells me that 59.5gr of 7828ssc will push the 162g at 2930fps from the 22.5" tube. Havnt shot the ladder test yet, chrony didnt like the low light conditions yesterday morning so i aborted.

I'll let you know how the 7828ssc goes.

Your tikka looks good in that laminated stock.