I have a 1909 Arg. that is slowly getting some attention in the metal work dept. Havnt decided what to put on it. I have always wanted a .280 but just never got around to it...Not a single this is a little better round or no I hade problems with it. I'm thinking Hummmm, why not!

In all reality and all emotional preferences aside, the.280 is about as good as it gets. roger

Listening to you guys talking about the 280 Rem it looks like this will have to be my plains game calibre for Africa....

Will have to start with the planning...

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Originally posted by Gerhard.Delport:
Listening to you guys talking about the 280 Rem it looks like this will have to be my plains game calibre for Africa....

Will have to start with the planning...

Load it up with 160 or 175 A-Frames and you're set to tip over any plains game you find including Eland.

Yep,add another one to the list of 280 fans.Dad shot one pretty much all his life and I've been shooting mine for about seven years now.
Mine is a 1979 production Rem 700 that the barrel is stamped "7MM Express"

Only loaded 139 Ballistic tips over RL 19.Have killed eight or ten whitetails and two yotes with it.Have had problems with the bullets coming apart on impact.Yesterday I loaded some test loads with IMR 4350,RL 19 using both 140 Partitions and 139 Hornday Interlocks.

I'll never own a 270,and I sold my 25-06 after shooting game with the 280.In fact I haven't shot either of my 3006s since I got the 280.
I'm seriously thinking of having one of the 06s
rebarreled with a 26 inch tube in 280,just cause.
Howard

Every time I think of buying a .280 I end up buying a 7mm RM, mostly due to them being WAY easier to find in stock/on shelves. I would still like to own a .280 someday. A friend of mine has a gorgeous Sauer in 7x64mm I helped reload for and it's killed dozens of animals including deer, caribou, black bear, and elk.

My Remington 700 KS in .280 with 24" barrel has been my "go to" rifle since 1978. I surely love this cartridge in this rifle. I handload 145gr Speer FB Spitzers with IMR-4350 to do what I need.

the 280 is about the last item on my wish list from when I was about 20 years old .. I need to build one, but i keep getting distracted!

The .280 Remington is possibly the perfect all around rifle. Fantastic 400 yard varminter. The 175 gr is as good as it gets for big game at or under .308 caliber. I like a .280 Remington/.338 Winchester Mangum combination battery for North America.

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Originally posted by bartsche:
In all reality and all emotional preferences aside, the.280 is about as good as it gets..

can we add a dash more corn to the sack and say 280AI...and still agree? ??

I do wonder wat the practical point of .270cal was, when 6.5 & 7mm exhisted.

As good as the .280 Rem is the AI version is even better.AFAIK Nosler is the only one making a non custom gun and ammo for it.Almost all the loads in their manual are compressed but there's nothing wrong with that.It might very well be the finest cartridge in existence for all but dangerous game.

I would agree that it's a pretty well balanced and practical round.

Ain't it ironic that the 7MM RSAUM, which has essentially the same case capacity and hence the same performance from a short action, was a commercial flop.

Not as stylish as some of the guns being discussed here, but my Savage 110 with the $100 switchbarrel 280 worked quite well. After some load development and range time I shot a nice 'bou with it at about 400 yards. Caribou aren't that tough, but they are big and you don't want to have a footrace through the "hummocks" with them. The 160 X bullet that I originally bought for the 7 Rem Mag. did a fine job and I didn't have to chase that bull anywhere. I don't know when that 280 barrel will get used again, but that's the charm of the switchbarrel - right now that rifle is a 35 Whelen for the next spring black bear hunt.

I like the 280 alot. One bummer though, I noticed that Ruger recently dropped the chambering off their web site

The 280 deserves to be a whole lot more popular than it is...but then Remington screwed up marketing it...twice...

I barrel my own rifles and I have both 280 and 280AI reamers...I've built a 280AI for myself and a few more for others...sold mine a couple years ago. I just shot today a Sako AV that I rebarreled to the std 280 with a #1 PacNor CM tube at 24", a 280 is nice although it won't do anything a 270 won't do until you go over 150 grs in bullet weight.
But one thing that's often said is that the 280AI will equal the 7mm Rem Mag...not true in my experience...I've had a 24" 7mm Rem Mag posted chrony numbers within spitting distance of 3400 with a 140...no 280AI can do that unless you have a 30" barrel.....