280AI vs. 7mm Rem Mag vs. 270wsm or???

Yeah, I'm spoiled by being on the "short-list" with my gunsmith. It's not that hard of a club to get into, mostly involving sourcing and bringing all the parts myself. Human nature and practicality being it is, the easy wheel often gets the grease before the squeaky wheel.

After all the wheels have been greased, a factory rifle in mainstream caliber can normally do more or less the same thing.
 
Dogleg said:
After all the wheels have been greased, a factory rifle in mainstream caliber can normally do more or less the same thing.
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And sell at very little loss... whereas every custom I have done and became bored with, sold at a major loss. With a few exceptions, I keep most of my rifles in factory original configuration these days... you are fortunate having easy access to quality gunsmithing... I did too, but as seems endemic, my guy aged and retired, and I have not found anyone to replace him... and two projects sitting on the shop bench.
 
I shot a domestic sheep once with a 25/06 at 400 paces. Maybe it died so fast because it was tame but the results showed that a 257 can do it. By that any of your choices will do just fine so if you can't decide write the cartridge names on paper and pull out of a hat or ask a friend that has no idea what you're talking about
Best thing to do is get trigger time with all three choices then buy all three
If you don't handload the 7 rem mag is everywhere and even though it's got a belt I'd choose the rem mag personally but I can't give you a reason as to why
 
280 Ackley would be my choice and nice to see Hornady making ammo and brass for 2018. Most shooters cannot shoot well enough in the field to take advantage of any gains a 28 Nosler would offer.
 
hoytcanon said:
And sell at very little loss... whereas every custom I have done and became bored with, sold at a major loss. With a few exceptions, I keep most of my rifles in factory original configuration these days... you are fortunate having easy access to quality gunsmithing... I did too, but as seems endemic, my guy aged and retired, and I have not found anyone to replace him... and two projects sitting on the shop bench.
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That would be depressing; it took 30 years to get our guy broke-in.
 
For some reason the 7MM mag has always underwhelmed me. I always expected more but could never get there without blowing it up. Nothing wrong with it but the 30-06 can do just about anything the 7 mag can do unless perhaps if one shoots beyond 400 yards which most of us don't. It helps to have a 26 inch tree on the end but to me that is what it feels like, a tree.
 
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