6.5 x 284

[placek59]

A friend of mine called this morning with a slight problem in a new rifle of his. It's a savage 6.5x284 and this morning while sighting it in for a new scope, he had one case (his last one of the day) that had "soot" all the way back to the rim. He said his load is 44g vv165, 142smk and a cci br primer. He has about 50 rounds down the barrel and is using new lapua brass. He said that was the 9th shot and after dialing in scope, the group was still less than .5" even with the "sooty" round. Does anyone know what may have caused this? Is it anything to be worried about? I have heard that maybe too light of a charge will do it but I don't know if thats the problem. He says that book max is 47.2 for this bullet and powder. I don't have a vv book so I can't double check, so he is running less than max, but not too much. Any thoughts out there??
THanks

 

[PGS]

Hi placek59,
I ran my 6.5x284 at 2950 with 53.5g of n165 with 139moly scenars, this load was safe in my rifle. 44g seem to be a very mild load it could be the reason for the soot down the case

cheers

 

[PGS]

44g to 47g is more like N160 load data hope this helps

cheers

 

[placek59]

it was vv165 - maybe he looked at the wrong data. I will have go to their site to check it out. THanks