Thread: Projectile choice 284

Have been using a 284W on & off for over 35yrs & have hunted with them around the world ,have owned 3 over that time& shot 100's of all game types with it & IMO it is just about the perfect Kiwi caliber. This year have just taken possession of a custom 284W build by Allen Carr l have been gathering bits for years for & built to my specs,l waited for this build as it will probably be my last custom & joins 4 others Carr has done for me over the years ,so l wanted it to have meaning for me .

All my 284W's loved AR2209, my favorite Hunting Loads with this long throat build - for Goats ,Pigs,Chammy & small Deer is the Speer 130gn BT pushed along by 58gn hitting around 3150fps ,my all round loads are the 140gn NP with 57gn hitting 3100fps & 145gn Speer with 56gn for 3000fps. My premium Tahr & Deer load is the proven 140gn Barnes-X pushed along to around 3000fps & the 160grn Speer doing around 2900fps ,l have taken Elk,Sambar,Caribou,Wap & Moose .





Over this Roar period, as last year was a Chyna Flu cluster fuck ,we did a extended hunting expedition across Kiwi Land,l used those hunts to put this 284W through its paces while l decided on final barrel length/suppressor selection .Over the course of the 35 days of actual hunting with it ,we took basically everything we are lucky to have on offer across our great country from pigs in the scrub to Tahr on the Alpine peaks & the rifle build & caliber performed great & there is nothing l would change on the build/loads & would not waste any time worrying about heavy for caliber bullet selection for 99% of the hunting here .

Couple of animals from the trip -


Tahr taken at 535 mtrs with 140gn Barnes-X ,in extremely windy conditions on the tops ,(wind was that bad we had to fly out early or risk getting stuck), both shoulders turned to jelly & dead before it hit the ground .



Big Bodied Stag taken at 314 mtrs hiding in choked up gully 140gn Barnes-X exited with 3 knuckle hole behind off side shoulder ,bang flop



Pig taken at 70 mtr's running through scrub with Speer 130gn BT while hunting Fallow,both shoulders turned to jelly.





Stag taken at 145 mtrs both shoulders destroyed ,140gn NP



Chammy taken at 622mtrs with Speer 130gn BT,after mate thought it had been hit after it walked behind the one he dropped,turned out must have flinched when showered with rock fragments .



In over 3 decades of hunting with the 284W never seen any benefit on selecting something like 160grn+ Eld's etc ,for New Zealand hunting & even while hunting Elk,Sambar & Moose overseas l used 160grn Speer doing around 2900fps .