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- Dec 26, 2007
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Nice, great rifle and great caliber
Got the 280
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Greg Nolan
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- Nov 25, 2004
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You're right, I am having "Magnum Withdraws" :shock: Wait!!! Didn't they call that a 7mm express once? Like Nitro Express. And the 600 Nitro express is certainly a magnum catagory cartridge. Ok Ok I think everything is comming back into focus. Whew :roll: :lol: :lol: I think it will be a fine cartridge and I believe the 160 gr A/B and the 140 Balistic Silvertip might be a first tests.
Thanks again. Pictures will be comming. Hopefully with a deer and wolf to cheer things up.
Greg
Thanks again. Pictures will be comming. Hopefully with a deer and wolf to cheer things up.
Greg
One Saturday a few years back, I was cruising through a gun show and the fellow had a 1909 Argentine barrel action and a nice looking stock blank who anted $600 for the package. Said he was selling it for his friend's widow. Well while everything looked like the work was well done by someone who knew how to do it, O was a bit skeptical and offered him $300 which I felt was a bit more realistic as I considered the package a bit of a pig in a poke. Naturally he declined. The next day I approached him as he still had the package and said my offer of $300 still stands. He took it. I sat on it a while, then took it to my gunsmith to have the rifle put in the raw blank and have it checkerd. I also added a Niedner style trap door butt plate and matching grip cap. He did the stock work and I later found out he'd farmed the rifle out to Sterling Davenport for the fantasically beautiful Fleur de Lis checkering. The caliber? Why .280 Rem. of course. I've only done some very limited load work with it so far but it's definitely a shooter. It did come out a bit heavier than I like for mountain use but I figure it''' be great for some of the flatland hunting I do. It's just too pretty to make any changes now.
Paul B.
Paul B.
filmjunkie4ever
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- May 4, 2011
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Those Argentine 1909s are good actions. Have only fired one...in 30-06 with a heavier almost match contour barrel. Very nice gun and shot straight. I am sure your 280 and all the other ones I keep hearing about are the same way!
CatskillCrawler
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- Jul 30, 2011
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This is just the type of cartridge to cure your Magnumitis! Good pick-up.
My friend has a M700BDL in .280 which I load for. He uses 140gr NABs and 160gr NPs with H4895 and H4831Sc respectively. He lives in Maine and this .280 is bad medicine for the big WTs, Blacks, and moose up there. He has taken it out west and taken a 5x5 elk and two nice mulie bucks. He shot the elk quartering away at 180yds and the NP entered the ribs, blew out far-side shoulder and kept on humming.
As mentioned, I wouldn't think twice about taking it on any hunt.
My friend has a M700BDL in .280 which I load for. He uses 140gr NABs and 160gr NPs with H4895 and H4831Sc respectively. He lives in Maine and this .280 is bad medicine for the big WTs, Blacks, and moose up there. He has taken it out west and taken a 5x5 elk and two nice mulie bucks. He shot the elk quartering away at 180yds and the NP entered the ribs, blew out far-side shoulder and kept on humming.
As mentioned, I wouldn't think twice about taking it on any hunt.
The 280 is for the confident hunter. No inferiority complexes here. Great rifle, great caliber. Let the boys at the campfire wax poetic about fps and ftlbs and " I can zero it at 100 yards and hold dead on at 6oo and ignore the 10-30mph swirling crosswind." Don't get sucked in and call BS, Just pile up the critters with your "underpowered" rig. It will do the job for sure if you do yours. Welcome to the cult of throwbacks. Pretty soon you'll be wearing a buffalo plaid wool Mackinaw and a filson cruiser hat or Stormy Cromer and smoking a pipe or cigar too.
