The cartridge is easy to shoot and readily benefits from the higher Ballistic Coefficient of 7mm bullets. While living in France and Switzerland, I had the opportunity to try the 7mm-08 (308win necked down to 7mm). Left to right: The 7mm-08 Rem, 308 Win, 7mm Rem. Barrel life isn’t as much an issue for the latter as this will give years of hunting life even with a few sessions of training thrown in the season to ensure you can indeed shoot your 7RUM at 500yards when it matters. These last two cartridges are proper high-performance hunting cartridges meant to launch 180 grain class bullets past 3200 ft/s to achieve extremely flat shooting and wind bucking qualities. The latter are not in any particular order. Next step up is the popular 7 rem mag, 7 WSM and they keep getting beefier such as the 7 RUM and more recently the 28 Nosler. Cartridges for 7mm bullets vary greatly from medium sized rifle cartridges like the 7mm-08 (308win necked down) to the larger 284Win. The heaviest 6.5mm bullets approach 150 ish grains whereas the 7mm stacks that up to 195ish grain… +26% increase in weight at the top end.
They tend to be remarkably slender yet stick out from their smaller rival, the 6.5mm bullets especially in weight and length. 284 calibre cartridges also known to the Europeans as the 7mm, benefit from an array of bullets that perform very well and have a high ballistic coefficient BC when compared to their weight and length. Is the 284 Winchester (also written as 284Win) a new rifle cartridge to you? In the following article we shall explore in detail a few compelling reasons why it may just about be the ultimate 7mm largely however within the repertoire of hand loaders only…maybe its only Achilles heel… Loading table with arbor press, wilson dies and a freshly seated 7mm VLD berger 180 grain in a 284win case – notice the neck turned neck What’s the recoil like on the 284 Winchester?.284 Win- Prince of open Fclass 1000yard?.284 Winchester rifle action considerations.*284Win for Extreme Shot One Mile Italia – March 2021.