Thread: My new custom 28 Nosler

Originally Posted by 300_BLK

Brass and dies hard to get?

Good to see you set it up for the longer OAL and heavies.

How much was the wyatts?

Had to phone around a bit for the brass, but managed to get a couple of boxs of Nosler 28N and a bag of Norma 26N (which was a fair bit cheaper and easy to run over the expander mandrel).

Got Redding FL S Type bushing die set from from Brownells in the US.

No idea how much the wyatt extended box was, Dean supplied it as part of the job. They are listed on wyatts site as US$32, so probably close to $100 NZ here. The Stiller Predator action is already inletted for the wyatts box.

No point going to the trouble of doing this build and only running 160 gr bullets eh, might as well make the most of case capacity and push something with a real good bc. Was a tough call deciding to throat for the 195 as opposed to the 180 eldm tho, but from all ive read the 195 bergers seem to be a match made in heaven with the 28 Nosler, heaps of US guys all say they shoot lights out, whereas the 180 eldm's seem to be a bit hit and miss with many reporting they cannot get them to shoot.

One US based smith has built close on 100 custom 28 Noslers all running the 195's, and he swears by them, so hopefully all will be good, i'll find out soon enough.