284 Winchester and the 168 Berger VLD

[The Lawn Ranger]

Shooters,

Let me preface by saying that I have done an extensive search on this forum and it has yielded little (if any) fruit. I currently push the 162 Amaxes to 3000 fps with 59 grains of 4831sc in an SAC-built 284 LA with a 26.5" Krieger (MTU contoured)
stainless barrel. This load gets me accurately to 1650 yds.

I recently came into some 168 vlds and was wondering if any of you have had good success through a 284 LA? I would much appreciate any good starting load data for this combination including velocities. I have read mention of this combination but never any hard data.

Thanks in advance.....

 

[turbo54]

Re: 284 Winchester and the 168 Berger VLD

If you're willing to do the load workup, willing to pay for them, and willing to keep them "in tune" as the throat wears, the Berger 168 is probably the perfect bullet for a 284 for shooting out to 1300ish yards.

It is flat as can be, and only incurs a slight bit more drift than the 180s.

It certainly outperforms the 162, though the 162 is a fine bullet, and a great value.

You should back off your charge of H4831sc 2gr for the 168s, and work up from there. That is safety talking. You'll probably find you're capacity limited, not pressure limited.

Good luck and keep up posted.

 

[raptor99]

Re: 284 Winchester and the 168 Berger VLD

My soninlaw shoots them in both his 280 and the 284 he just had built. He uses H4350 and started with 51grs and went up to 54grs. He got his best accuracy at either 51.5 or 52.5grs of H4350.

Not sure what the velocity is but I shoot the 162AMAX in mine with a 28" barrel and it takes me 25.5 MOA to be on at 1000yds. My load is 52.5grs of H4350 in WW brass.

 

[The Lawn Ranger]

Re: 284 Winchester and the 168 Berger VLD

52.8 grs of H4350 seems to be the sweet spot with the 168 vlds in my rifle (.25-.375 at 100 yds). I'll take that. No chrony today but I would estimate 2950-2970 fps if I had to guess. 7 mils gets me to a 1000. I will play with the loading depth a little the next time out and get some accurate speed/ES/SD readings before taking it to TVP for a little vertical dispersion testing-Thanks again Mark Gordon.

 

[The Lawn Ranger]

Re: 284 Winchester and the 168 Berger VLD

52.7 grains of H4350
168 VLD (.317 G7) loaded 2.465 to the ogive
2885 fps *across 8 shots
ES: 23
SD: 9

sub 1/4 min at 100 yds

7.3 mils to 1000 yds

Oh Yeah!