I have been thinking of adding a long action to my collection,and have been looking at .25-06/.270/.280 i know the .280 is really 7mm and i believe it almost identical to 7x64

How do they perform on the likes of Roe ,Red, would be interested to hear............

Regards Englander

My 7x64 performs very well on Roe and so will a .280 as they are ballistic twins. I load 160 bullets which drops them with authority, penetrates from any angle, do not damage meat and still allow me to take on an unexpected Wild Boar.

280 rem is the american twin to 7X64 and 7X65R. They kill very efficiently anything up to red deer size animal (with good placement of course). Once a friend of mine was shooting my double 7X65R. Don't really know how he made it, but he loaded a 280 rem cartridge - and killed the roe deer. No damage to the gun, except that we had kind of a hard time to eject the fired case.

The 7x64 was developed by Wilhelm Brennecke in the 1920s and is comparable to the 30/06 which for the non-metrically handicapped reads 7.62x63 mm. The 7x65R is the rimmed version and loaded for usage in brake-top actions to somewhat lower pressures. Bullets are available from 120 up to 175 grain and penetrate a little better than the 30/06 of comparable weight. It is more than sufficient for elk, moose and the biggest, meanest hogs and is for this reason the most popular chambering in Germany. Our big Northamerican brothers reinvented it in the 1950s and called it for marketing reasons the .280 Remington (there is nothing new under the sun...).
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Straight away I must come clean with the fact that I know zilch about reds and haven't shot a 280.

But I have shot a couple of 270s and I do stalk quite a lot of roe in woodland and on big arable fields. It would not be my choice as I found it much harsher in recoil and noise.

For me the extra 30yds or so range from a 270/280 is not worth the pain over a milder 6.5x55/7x57.

Hi

The 280 would work just fine for this kind of hunting. I would pick a 280 over the /X64 since ammo is easier to find across the globe, I don't like the performance of european style "cluster" bomb bullets

/ JOHAN