280 Remington?

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A friend is threatening to give me a rifle chambered in 280 Remington. He hasn't let on what kind of rifle it might be yet.

What would you do?

I have enough big game rifles and don't see much difference between a 280 and my 270 except that I can get 270 ammo anywhere if I need to.
 
I had a 270, and 30-06.
Sold the 270 and gave the 30-06 to my son.
There is only .007" difference between the 270 and 280.
Still have the 25-06 and 280.
They are all family.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth - even a really old one makes good coyote bait!
 
you do realize that if you refuse this gift of rifledom superiority you may lose a friend as well as miss out on being the coolest guy in your neck of the intraweb.....

I hear from reading these pages that the 280 Rem is only surpassed in the "cool" department by the...........................280 Ackley...:)
 
Well the reason he thought of me was that we were talking about rifles and calibres one day and I said that there was a time in my life that I really really wanted a 280 Remington.

I had been told as a child about the marvelous 280 Ross and then about 45 years ago I read about the 280 Remington and it just seemed like the perfect "do everything" rifle to me.
 
IMHO, the 280 Remington is a great cartridge, overshadowed by the .270, I have an ADL in the 80's I swapped with a taxidermist for him to do my bear rug and he also gave me 200.00 along with it. I remember the old advertisement, flatter than the 30/06 and hits harder than the .270.

Tb
 
.280 is an excellent cartridge... About as excellent as 7X57, 7mm-08, .308 and .30/06... Excellent.
 
I built a switch barrel rifle, with a 280 Remington barrel. I love it! Recoils Very mild, has waaay more quality, High BC bullets available than the 270 win. It just seems more practical for reloading variety/potential.

I Like the 270 as well, dont get me wrong.

Here is some targets I shot a couple weeks ago.





She shoots just fine for me! Check out the group size measurement on the bottom group! I laughed when my calculater spat that out! A 280rem shooting a .284/7mm group! I can gardly wait to stretch her out to 1760 yards! I will take my time though. No sense in rushing the fun and end goal! If I finish my goal to soon, I will just want to do something else! Lol!

Hope you like the pics!
 
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kamlooky said:
Where oh where do you find these giving away rifle friends?
All I get is sheet and abuse.
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dthunter said:
I built a switch barrel rifle, with a 280 Remington barrel. I love it! Recoils Very mild, has waaay more quality, High BC bullets available than the 270 win. It just seems more practical for reloading variety/potential.

I Like the 270 as well, dont get me wrong.

Here is some targets I shot a couple weeks ago.





She shoots just fine for me! Check out the group size measurement on the bottom group! I laughed when my calculater spat that out! A 280rem shooting a .284/7mm group! I can gardly wait to stretch her out to 1760 yards! I will take my time though. No sense in rushing the fun and end goal! If I finish my goal to soon, I will just want to do something else! Lol!

Hope you like the pics!
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Great groups and shows potential for sure. The issue is your spread in velocity. At 1760 you'll be stringing a disgusting amount with 60fps spreads.

You'll see it at 600 even.
 
rem338win said:
Great groups and shows potential for sure. The issue is your spread in velocity. At 1760 you'll be stringing a disgusting amount with 60fps spreads.

You'll see it at 600 even.
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Yup! My thoughts exactly!
This is the fifth and sixth groups from this barrel. So she is a new work in Progress.

I am still fire forming my brass, and getting an idea of what the rifle likes yet.
I just went through some issues with brass. Got that figured out now.

I am no stranger to long range shooting, done lots of that, and I hope to get my SD down into the single digits.

Lots of shooting and reloading experimentation to be done! I can hardly wait!!! Lol!
 
you will cover a lot of ground with a 280 and loading there is no end. a 280 and a 375 h&h you will do everything why do they make all them others ???
 
Lol! My "long range"plan (pun intended) is to get the 280rem, 30-06, 270win, & 25-06 barrels out to a mile on one single platform. Just to see if I can do it.

I will even get a 35 whelan barrel for this rifle.

For now the 280 demington is captivating my attention for sure
 
There are two types of people, those that give and those that take.
I have given more than I have received..........sheeeeet included.

Oh, no homo.


hoytcanon said:
Some folks, by their very nature, attract magnanimus gifts from those around them...

Other folks, by their very nature, attract "sheet and abuse" from those around them...












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I have a Browning Stainless Stalker in 280 had it for 20 years great caliber never really took off.Tell your friend it would be a burden but you'll take it off his hands.Good luck
 
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