Like the others said, grab up the 284. They carry a heavy Premium ($$$$$) here. I have a M100 in 308 and it is a great gun, I'd snatch up a 284 if I had the chance in a heartbeat!

I agree wholeheartedly - get the .284. I'd love to find a 100 in that chambering. They usually bring a premium price as does the .358. The .308 show up regularly at my local gunshop and I put them back on the rack. But if a .284 or 358 show up when I'm there, its going home with me.

Well I guess if I had any doubts at all they are long gone.

If anyone from "Wincherster" were to read this thread they may get the idea that a good deal of the rifle buying folks would stand in line to buy a M100 in .284.

I'll post up a pic of me at the range with my new gun in a few weeks.

Robin in Rocky

Dang... I just checked out the ballistics tables at Winchester's site on the .284. Looks like a heckuva nice little cartridge. With the 150 grain bullet, it shoots flatter than either the .30-06 with a 150 or the 7mm-08 with a 140, and retains energy better than either of them. Makes me wonder whythe .284 isn't more popular.

It's just my opinion, but I think the reason that the .284 never really caught on was because the .284 wasdelevlopedmainly for the M100 and M88.When Winchester stopped making the M100 and M88, they essentially stopped making the .284.Today if it weren't for gunsmiths rebarreling and rechambering existing rifles and custom rifle makers offering the .284,it very well mey have faded away completely.

Or any other rifle in .284, too. Even a Model 70!