280 Remington

The .280 Rem is a cartridge I have always wanted but somehow never managed to own. Today I saw a Ruger Tang Safety rifle in .280 come up on EE and I just couldn't resist not buying it. Says he will ship it Monday.....dang then a week to get here....sure hope it misses the postal guys with a firearms grudge. I am really looking forward to getting this one.

Jim
 
Why not? said:
Okay.

"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."

Attributed to Bob Hagel

Ted
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Every time we select a chambering for a hunt we go through a check list of advantages and disadvantages that it offers for where we are hunting and what we are hunting. It's always a compromise somewhere.

This is why the 30-06 has been so successful for a hundred years. The 280 pretty much duplicates the '06 but lacks a very small wee bit in versatility and a lot in availability.
 
Why not? said:
Okay.

"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."

Attributed to Bob Hagel

Ted
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Meet the Mashburn. Didn’t Hagel like that round?

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SuperCub said:
True, there's not much ground those two wouldn't cover but if you're only taking one rifle out something has to give.
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Any of us who have more than one rifle have, at the very least, an internal check list. A factor that carries great weight with me, as I'm weird like that, is which rifles have not taken game yet... I like to pull a noobie out of the cabinet... my reasoning is simple, "personal justification..." the more rifles that have taken game, the easier it is for me to justify having so many guns... it is an internal thing that brings me peace when I, yet again, say "I'll take it!"

The hard part is not allowing the thought to creep in that, "you could have taken any of those animals with your old 94 .30-30...
 
hoytcanon said:
Any of us who have more than one rifle have, at the very least, an internal check list. A factor that carries great weight with me, as I'm weird like that, is which rifles have not taken game yet... I like to pull a noobie out of the cabinet... my reasoning is simple, "personal justification..." the more rifles that have taken game, the easier it is for me to justify having so many guns... it is an internal thing that brings me peace when I, yet again, say "I'll take it!"

The hard part is not allowing the thought to creep in that, "you could have taken any of those animals with your old 94 .30-30...
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Don’t listen! You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life. - dan
 
760 carbine in .280 here, never hunted it but a black bear in on the agenda in the spring. Not spectacular at the range, but very acceptable accuracy for hunting.
 
I will, can’t see parting with anytime soon however. It’s a great little rifle, love the balance, great in the thick stuff.
 
My first entry to this thread was in the early pages.
Thinking back to 1998 when I bought my 280 I still had a 270 Win., 30-06 and a 338 Win Mag and fitted in a 300 Win Mag in-between.
The only one remaining in the stable is the 280, a Remington 700 BDL SS.
While this is my go to rifle for the new shooter the drawback is the lack of ammunition in LGS stocks. It is easy enough to reload for and my rifle has never had a factory round through it.

Great for me but not for everyone.
 
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