Norma to Make 6mm Dasher and .284 Win Brass for Bullets.com
Bullets.com has contracted with Norma to produce 1,000,000 pieces of .284 Winchester and 6mm Dasher brass (500,000 of each type). This is big news for competitive shooters. The .284 Win cartridge is a proven winner in F-Class competition and the 6 Dasher is a record-setting mid-range benchrest cartridge. It’s tough to beat the Dasher at 300-600 yards, and the .284 Win is probably the most successful cartridge for F-Open shooters.
Bullets.com President Shiraz Balolia (left) and Norma Managing Director Paul-Erik Toivo “ink the deal”.
Shooters should be excited about these new offerings. Bullets.com’s contract with Norma calls for advanced production methods to make sure the new brass is truly “match-grade” and long-lasting. To ensure that primer pockets stay tight for many firings, the caseheads on the new brass will be double-stamped for improved hardness and strength. Additionally the new brass will go through an additional draw stage to ensure ultra-uniform casewall thickness. With these extra manufacturing steps, this new 6mm Dasher and .284 Win brass should be the best brass Norma has ever produced, as Bullets.com President Shiraz Balolia explains in the video below:
Shiraz Balolia Explains the Qualities of the New Brass
Shiraz reports: “Normally, Norma has about 25 steps of quality control (QC) during the production process of brass. They told us that our first shipments will have almost 30 steps to make sure that the brass is absolutely flawless when it leaves the factory.”
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6mm Dasher
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.284 Winchester
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6mm Dasher without Fire-Forming Hassles
Until now, if you wanted to shoot a Dasher, you had to go through the time-consuming and laborious process of forming brass from the parent 6mmBR Norma case. You had to blow the shoulder forward, either through fire-forming or hydro-forming. Now that’s all changed — you will soon be able to take perfect 6mm Dasher brass out of the box, and “load and shoot”.
The Deal is done. New Norma .284 Win brass will start arriving in the USA in March, 2015, while the new Dasher brass is expected in late summer 2015.
IMPORTANT — The above diagrams were made 4 years ago with QuickDESIGN. They are for illustration purposes ONLY. These are NOT reamer prints, and there may be small differences compared to the Norma .284 Win and 6mm Dasher brass ordered by Bullets.com. Do NOT spec reamers based on the above illustrations. Wait ’til we have the actual Norma brass to measure.
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Tags: .284 Winchester, Dasher, F-Class, F-Open, Norma, Paul-Eric Toivo, Shiraz Balolia
Thank You Mr. Balolia for all that you do for the shooting sports.
What is the case length on the 6mm Dasher case? The drawing is a little fuzzy on my computer.
Hal
Editor: Hal, those are just cartridge diagrams we created in QuickDesign. The exact dimensions for the Dasher brass will be based on a PT&G print with some minor modifications.
1.560 case length. Hope the shoulder is not really .463…..pretty fat for the standard reamer.
Hal,
the case length in the diagram is 2.4411″.
WAY TO GO SHIRAZ, YOU ARE ONE GREAT SHOOTER AND YOUR LOVE FOR THE SHOOTING INDUSTRY IS UNDISPUTABLE.
This is fantastic news… I hope Shiraz decides to take pre-orders for the 6 dasher. It may benefit Bullets.com as it would give an idea on the demand for this brass also.
Wonder how case weight of the .284 brass will compare to the Lapua 6.5/284 brass?
I hope this gives lapua a wake up call! Pull your finger out and start giving the shooters what they ask for!!they
Lapua better start making plans for 300wsm, 300wm and maybe 7saum or your going to miss the boat!
Smart move. 1/2M won’t be enough…..
wheres that dang like button ! most excellent news !
Best news I’ve heard for a very long time!
Can’t wait to get some.
I applaud the efforts of bullets.com to get this quality brass for the .284 Winchester. Can I preorder 500 cases?
This is great news.
My only concern is what will the neck thickness be?
Current “blue box” brass works perfectly with my .2704″-neck Dasher reamer without turning.
500K cases run? I guess we’re going to find out how many Dasher shooters there actually are!
Not only neck thickness but price also. Can you say $2 bucks a pop?
500 000 cases, 200 cases for 2500 shooters.
DJ it doesn’t matter what the shoulder is. If you full length size it before you load it would change it.
DJ it doesn’t matter what the shoulder is. If you full length size it before you load, it would change it.
Our drawing shows the overall length at 1.553″
We are anxiously awaiting the 284 brass. It is now April. Can you please give us an update on delivery?
Thank you!
Thats great news, Laupa should also start making the 6mm dasher, 300 wsm & 300 win mag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE.
6 Dasher bras still can’t be found, wanting to have a Dasher rifle built but not going till brass is available, please let me know when we can expect brass?
Any idea when this will be available?
I have been working with a gunsmith that builds and shoots all the BRs extensively.His, and others known to him, purchased from the first run of your brass and had radical “flyers”. A friend of the smith bought from the second run and we have yet to hear back from him regarding results.
Would you please advise what changes were made from batch one to batch two? We all want the longer neck but not at the expense of flyers during competitive shoots.
The gunsmith told me that he thinks that using higher pressures in seeking optimal accuracy is causing the flyers, which does not occur with Lapua brass. If you could clear this up we could all consider using Norma brass and the smith could build Dashers for his many customers from around the country with the confidence of knowing that Norma brass would fulfill our needs.