I wish I had never sold that one. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. No moose or bison tags have shown up in my mailbox, so the rifle's authority on North America's biggest hooved game remains theoretical. The.280 is a 7mm, same diameter as the 7x57M, 7x 61 S&H, 7mm Weatherby, 7mm Rem. This category includes such cartridges as the .264 Winchester Magnum, .270 Winchester, the .270 Magnums, .280 Remington, the 7mm Magnums, .308 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, .303 British and 8x57JS. Serious scopes, like quality camera lenses, are weighty. My opportunity to take a young bull elk came at about 6,000 feet on a balmy October morning — calibrated, almost, for the scope's turret. I ran inspiringly tiny control groups with the Berger load, then tried Barnes's 168-grain LRX, a fantastic hunting bullet that I've seen take a splendid assortment of African plains game. Nor did the 175- grain version of the ELD-X, even using same-lot bullets that reliably produce bug-cluster groups in my custom 7mm Weatherby Magnum rifle. I've chronoed a number of loads, worked up to 'maximum' powder charges as shown by numerous reloading manuals and online sources, all with velocities in the mild to disappointing range. All information is provided "as is" with all faults without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. Jenna had never fired the Summit rifle, so we pulled off on public land to allow her to get acquainted with it. While they are not necessarily perfect, they are the minimum recommended moose cartridges. Although many sheep rifles fitted with ultra-slim barrels are superbly accurate over three shots, they do not hold that accuracy over 10 consecutive shots. One of my favorite rifles is a 280 and have seen some really big moose taken with 280's,but i think they were made for the 140 or 160's.If you go up to 175's or bigger I think you need to go 7MM mag for the extra power This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Ackley Improved 40 degrees,” this cartridge was standardized by Nosler and accepted by SAAMI in 2008. Impact velocity with the Berger was about 2,775 fps, and the fragmenting bullet destroyed a considerable amount of meat. It's a standard-length cartridge, so I had to accept more weight than I'd originally hoped. That 77-V in 7mm Remington Express (280 Remington) was an Antelope and high plains Mule Deer killing MACHINE! The .280 Remington can handle bullets up to 175 grains making it very versatile. in this video of a beautiful B.C. With hand loads, the .280 can be adapted to a variety of game, from varmints to large framed, heavily built medium game. I also used the 140 PT in a 6.5 x 55 Swede on a cow elk at 370 years ago, and it did put her down. With the competition completed using the Berger load, I returned to searching for a super-accurate handload with the Hornady ELD-X line. No. The bigger the animal, the more heated that debate tends to be. Inside 300 or even 400 yards, they served adequately. The .270 Winchester, .280 Remington, .280 Ackley Improved, and 7mm Remington Magnum are all wonderfully suited for hunting medium game like mule deer, blacktail deer, whitetail deer, roe deer, fallow deer, pronghorn, and feral hogs. Here's a closer look at each of the three major criteria I used to build one rifle that does everything. The .275 H&H, introduced in 1912, was never especially popular, but is suspiciously similar to the Remington cartridge that followed a … You simply cannot produce a superb optic with zoom, extensive elevation adjustment, parallax adjustment, and top-shelf glass without incurring weight. I killed one of my elk this year with a 280 Remington and a 160gr bullet at a little passed 300 yards. |   Homing in on the 600- yard plate, he squeezed the trigger and absolutely centered the 4-inch black dot. Subscriber Services. Having been released 32 years after the .270 Winchester, it had somewhat unspectacular sales. Determined to work up a moose-capable hunting load, I later circled the handloading wagons back to the Barnes 168-grain LRX bullet, trying different powders and seating depths I struck gold, settling on a charge of 59.0 grains of IMR 7828, which produced 2,903 fps and average groups of 0.45 inch. Accurate? The latter enabled me to run updated ballistic calculations and dial in MOA should I end up shooting in atmospheric conditions vastly different from the 6,000 feet elevation and 50-degree temperature the turret was calculated at. A challenge to create one rifle that does everything took hold of me some time ago and tormented me during more than one sleepless night. I'm going black bear hunting in PA this year. However, I was driving the 168-grain VLD Hunting bullet at 2,835 fps, not the 3,200 fps that sometimes causes such bullets to behave like a fragmenting varmint bullet and fail to adequately penetrate vitals. Loaded with fast expanding, sleek 140 to 150 grain bullets, the .280 is a fast killer of light framed medium game. 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Even at 10,100 feet elevation, which is as high as I've hunted with the rifle, it's not burdensome, yet I can lie down, rest the rifle over my daypack, and hit deer-vital-size targets to a half-mile with confidence (although I don't promote shooting game at such distances). I'm not a fast runner, but that's no fault of the rifle. We're taking a look at what the Army's Elite Units are using for service rifles and what the future of SOCOM sniping looks like. Typically of fixed magnification, riflescopes of his day were simple 1-inch tubes with few moving parts and fewer lenses. Also, if you want to hunt something really big, like Alaska moose, you can use 175-grain bullets in the.280, while the top end for the.270 is 150 grains. mountain hunt: Although expensive by typical match-barrel standards, the company's carbon-fiber wrapped barrels offer honest mountain-rifle weight combined with exceptional accuracy. Then in 1986 I had a full custom Rifle built for myself in caliber 280 Remington. Big bore semiauto or a lever gun? Short to medium range (100-200 yard) moose cartridges. Eventually, Hornady's Joe Theilen — who competes in 1,000-yard benchrest disciplines with his .280 Ackley Improved — helped me see the light, touting outstanding barrel life coupled with above-par ballistics. Match, The Future Of Special Operations Small Arms. Another stubby powerhouse, the .300 Remington Short Action Ultra Mag, also came my way before I’d heard of it dropping an elk. The 280 Remington could be the Goldilocks of standard-length action hunting rounds. Of the many fine long-range optics available, Leupold's VX-6 3-18X is the lightest scope (19 ounces) that offers the features critical to serious long-range shooting. One is a pointed Core-Lokt, one is a Nosler ballistic tip, and the third is a boat-tail spitzer bullet. At first I was inclined to use a custom titanium action and have Steve Pratt of Elk Meadow Performance build the rifle. Perhaps a tad bit better gun because of the killing power and the small amount of recoil. From the start, the notion of a 7mm cartridge with the ballistics and long life of the 6.5 Creedmoor kept popping up like one of those trick birthday candles that won't stay blown out. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets. I give the edge to the less-popular .280 Remington for one reason and one reason only: the available bullet weight. Hunting with match bullets — including Berger's hunting-branded VLD, which originally began life as a match bullet — is something I've always avoided. I considered the 7mm-08, 7mm-08 Improved, .284 Winchester, 7mm SAUM, and various short-action wildcat cartridges that would allow me to keep weight to a minimum and still make the moose-terminating grade. To offer the consistent accuracy necessary to successfully compete in long-range disciplines, a premium, perfectly true action was called for. Kyle kills a nice 6x6 Bull at 325 yards. The .280 is not a new design (appearing in wildcat form at the end of WWII) but did not become a factory round until 1957. Elk don't typically react much to getting shot, but this one shuddered, staggered backward, and toppled in less time than it takes to tell. 280 Ackley, 168 berger vld. Before opening day of Utah's spike bull elk season, Dallin and I checked our zeros, and just for fun, I took two shots at 1,100 yards. 280 AI was standardized by Nosler in 2008 and, SAAMI approved, is now being sold as factory loaded ammunition. Mag. The Winchester XPR Renegade Long Range SR is a unique, feature-packed addition to the XPR... Fed by a 14-round magazine in the buttstock, the Winchester Model 74 features a top-side... Give a Gift   The .280 Remington retains the gradual taper and gentle shoulder of the .30-06, and even with the best loads will lag a bit behind the 7mm Remington Magnum. Base suggested retail is a shocking $6,300, but it's superbly built using a private-label Defiance action, Proof Research carbon-fiber-wrapped barrel, and proprietary superlight carbon-fiber stock, and it weighs between 6.0 and 6.8 pounds depending on caliber. History. Did just fine. The end of the road between Sodom and Gomorrah Tex. Watched an episode on the hunting channel were a guy dropped and huge whitetail dead in his tracks with one shot from the.280rem. I have a 25-06 that Im going to change out to a 280 Rem caliber. All I can claim is the concept of chambering such a rifle for a cartridge both moose-worthy and competition-appropriate and pressing it into service as a long-range cross-country match rifle. A 280 AI can safely fire 280 Remington ammunition, simultaneously fire-forming brass cases to reloadable 280 AI dimensions. Hot-barrel testing proved the load was consistent and the rifle tremendously accurate. However, Pratt cautioned that titanium tends to gall if too much grit or crud gets into the locking lugs. However, it was introduced in a different time, when the ascendancy of the bolt action wasn’t as clear as it is today. Win mag I ended up selling and the new 260. Jenna's opportunity came close, so close that she fired offhand and absolutely poleaxed the buck at 55 yards. Throat so I can load slugs such as the 175 RN Hornaday out to get max powder capacity and my intent is to use this for MOOSE! Both deflated and elated, I realized that all I had to do was pick the right cartridge and put a Summit to work. All Rights Reserved. Although lightweight, the Proof Research carbonfiber-wrapped barrel maintains its accuracy and point of impact even over long shot strings and is just right for long-range cross-country competition. the .284 W is much younger than the .280, but not as young as the "new kid" the 7mm-08. (This one ultimately proved to be the hardest criterion to satisfy.). With all due respect to Jack O’Connor, his favored.270 load with a fast stepping and fast expanding 130 grain bullet is … Yes, Scandinavian hunters have laid Nordic bulls low with the similarly performing 6.5x55 from time immemorial, but those are a smaller subspecies than North America's Alaska-Yukon moose. In the 150gr. Knowing that I'd be using the rifle in various challenging environments from the desert Southwest to high alpine mountains, I decided to man up and carry the weight of steel. The .280 Ackley Improved looks like a winner as a deer, pronghorn, elk and moose hunting cartridge. In performance, the.280 Ackley Improved typically adds 100 to 150 fps to standard.280 Rem. With the 3-18X 44mm Leupold custom VX-6 scope mounted in Talley lightweight one-piece mounts, the Summit rifle in .280 Ackley Improved weighs 7 pounds, 15 ounces — lighter than I had hoped. To try out the rifle in competition, I ran the 2016 Vortex Extreme Challenge, a 7.5-mile cross-country race with targets to 1,200 yards. Great accuracy results, from a number of combos. However, there's no arguing with the quick, clean kill. It's a combination never possible before today's space-age lightweight barrels and superb optics. However, it's doubtful that any astute hunter would challenge the moose-dropping effectiveness of a well-constructed 175-grain 7mm bullet launched at 2,800 fps, which produces close to 3,050 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. The.270 Winchester, the 7-08, the.280 Remington with a 150 grain controlled expansion bullet would do the trick on a moose, especially for a recoil sensitive hunter. The 30-284 wildcat used the same loading data as the 30-06. No company builds such barrels better than Proof Research. Today, loaded ammunition and new brass are available from Nosler. Plus, while barrel life is good, usually somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 rounds depending on how aggressively the shooter pushes his handloads, it's no .308 Winchester or 6.5 Creedmoor in terms of barrel life. Why not just use the outstanding, proven Creedmoor and be done with it? Without doubt, it's P.O. The Canadian .280 Ross, a true rimless magnum, introduced in 1907, made quite a splash, but lagged because pre-World War 1 softpoints weren’t up to its high velocity. Instead of .284″ bullets like the 7mm Mauser (and more recently developed cartridges like the 7mm-08, .280 Remington, .280 Ackley Improved, and 7mm Remington Magnum), the .270 Winchester used .277″ bullets which undoubtedly hampered adoption of the cartridge to a certain degree. Plus, in a pinch I could use standard .280 Remington ammo in the Improved chamber. Page 2 of 2 < Prev 1 2. and 280 Rem. Yes. 280 Remington chambers can be easily converted to 280 AI. Optically speaking, I was in business. Yes, I realize that we're talking about a .280 rather than a .270, here, but to those of us who've seen the data and drained coffeepots over discussions on the comparison of the two, I'd have to say that it's splitting hairs to try to find much difference between the two calibers' respective downrange performances. Best of all, it achieves this efficiently by burning considerably less powder and generating less recoil than the 7mm Rem. Don't get me wrong; accuracy wasn't bad, regularly less than 1 MOA, but even with extensive load development it didn't offer the sub-0.5-MOA accuracy necessary for competition shooting. With three versions, three barrel lengths, and three different finishes from which to choose,... Like situational ethics, standards of accuracy vary according to circumstances. Mike Degerness of Proof Research exhorted me to come to my senses and go with the .280 Ackley Improved. Win mag with whatever shot well out of it (most recently was using 215 hybrids never got to try out on moose) and a Remington 700 bdl 7mm mag back up rifle. I took the Berger bullet hunting. At one point my six-year-old son laid down behind it for his first-ever shot with a centerfire rifle. But Western Cartridge Company’s Lubaloy jacket, comprising 90 percent copper, 8 percent zinc and 2 percent t… Any point of impact shift is unacceptable. No dice. Discussion Starter • #1 • Sep 2, 2006. Discussion in 'Hunting' started by salthouse, Jun 19, 2006. Bigger isn’t always better when it comes to picking a cartridge for moose hunting. Lacking a close-range target, Jenna dialed to 460 yards and centerpunched a small rock. All Shooting Times subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. Picking the 10 “best” or most favorable cartridges for hunting any animal is a highly subjective and challenging task. Leupold's custom shop engraved a turret calibrated for the Berger load, marked in yards to 1,150 on the circumference and — to my specifications — with an MOA scale around the top edge. It's safe to say this rifle will become a family heirloom. While I've had outstanding luck with actions by Nesika Bay, Stiller, and others, my personal favorites are made by Defiance. Had it not been for the "moose-capable" criterion, I would have. As for the cartridge, it must have a high-BC bullet of moose adequate diameter and weight at respectable velocities, thus producing bona fide authority and minimal wind drift, all this without scorching the barrel inside of 2,500 rounds or kicking the stuffing out of me over long practice sessions. That said, the .280 produces optimum performance with 150 to 162 grain bullets. The 7mms from 7x57mm Mauser, 7mm-08 Rem. The lightweight .280 Ackley Improved Summit is light enough for sheep hunting, accurate enough for long-range competitions, and powerful enough for moose. 280 AI shoots 50 fps to 100 fps faster than the 280 Remington with the same bullets in the same standard-length actions. Bare rifle weight must be 6.5 pounds or less, so that once equipped with a capable long-range scope, sling, and full magazine it wouldn't tip the scales past 8.5 pounds, which is borderline too heavy for a kitted-out sheep rifle. At the time when I made the decision on the VX-6, the only limiting factor was the elevation turret, which only allowed one full rotation (20 MOA) when the zero stop was installed. Unfortunately, the rifle simply didn't give spectacular accuracy with them. In performance, the .280 Ackley Improved typically adds 100 to 150 fps to standard .280 Rem. through the 7mm magnums are excellent choices with 150 to 175-grain slugs. Although I'd like to take credit for creating a rifle type that satisfies the criteria outlined here, I can't. A similar result at 780 yards and she was sold on the rifle. Rifles in the .280chambering outsold the other two combined. Importantly, barrel life would be high and recoil would be low. It shoots flat for long-range work and is an extremely accurate cartridge. A month later my wife and I hauled the family south to fill her Utah mule deer tag. Recoil, with a SilencerCo Harvester suppressor attached, is mild. While not exactly a fire-breather, such a cartridge qualifies comfortably as moose-capable. She required a follow up shot, but that was my fault (bullet placement) not bullet performance. We ping steel with a .300 WinMag at over a mile. Aside from the cartridge (which I'll get to shortly), the last piece of the puzzle was an appropriate scope. Used the 160 PT in my previous 280 on whitetail, mule deer, elk and moose. ISS Prop House gives us the rundown on the guns used in Enemy at the Gate. Initially, I intended to shoot Hornady's 162-grain ELD Match bullet in competition and switch to the same-weight ELD-X version for hunting. Estimated impact velocity was about 2,265 fps, which clearly caused the Berger to expand dramatically but didn't stress it into complete fragmentation. Although Jack O'Connor allegedly defined a mountain rifle — with scope — to weigh around 7.5 pounds, he was dealing with a different breed of optic than we have today. Used my newest 280 and the 140 AB on my last elk. So at last the .280 had overcome itsdismal beginnings and joined the pantheon of great hunting cartridges. Only one barrel type that I'm aware of is both sheep-rifle light and competition capable, and that's a properly constructed, carbon-fiber-wrapped barrel. However, in order to achieve the "long-range competition-capable" part of this project, a serious scope is necessary. 280 Remington for Moose. Best of all, it achieves this efficiently by burning considerably less powder and generating less recoil than the 7mm Rem. Before this project, using just one rifle for every task had become a pretty obscure concept to me. 175 Gr. The .280 Remington, also known as the 7mm-06 Remington and 7mm Express Remington, was introduced in 1957 for the Remington model 740, 760, 721, and 725 rifles. The Winchester Model 52 is a fine, handbuilt smallbore match rifle that was once known as the... David Fortier talks with Jeff Hoffman of Black Hills Ammunition about the evolution of the .308 Win. As a result, while they are very capable in their intended realm, they don't qualify for competitive shooting wherein extended-string accuracy and minimal point of impact shift are imperative. The .280 Remington is essentially the .30/06 necked down to 7mm with some slight dimensional differences, the most important of these that the shoulder is moved slightly forward so the .280 will not chamber in the .270. These cheap postwar variants offer perhaps the best value on the vintage-Mauser market. Super-accurate? and probably moose alone although a black bear may slip into the scope on occasion. An informal autopsy later revealed that the Berger scrambled both lungs and the arteries at the top of the heart before exiting the point of the offside shoulder. Again, I was fortunate to bring back a bull. Nosler, Dakota Arms and most custom rifle makers are making rifles for the cartridge. After the Great War, cupro-nickel, of 60 percent copper and 40 percent nickel, became the jacket of choice. Winchester .350 Legend Rifles and Ammo Available Right Now, Ruger 10/22 Competition Rifle at 300 Yards, Revolver vs. Semiauto Pistol: A Ballistic Oddity, Stevens Model 52 – Happy to Meet You, Lucile, Winchester XPR Renegade Long Range SR Review, How I Built One Rifle That Does Everything, Black Hills Evolution of Rifle Cartridge: .308 Win. With a salute to Degerness's foresight, I put in an order for a Summit chambered in .280 Ackley Improved. Although The High Road has attempted to provide accurate information on the forum, The High Road assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. Accuracy capability must be consistently inside 0.5 MOA, which is much less common than the cyber-world would have one think, and accuracy must not degrade over a series of three consecutive three-shot groups without allowing the barrel to cool. Fired at 2,700 fps, a high-BC 7mm bullet of at least 160 grains would provide wind drift and drop similar to a 140-grain 6.5mm projectile fired from the Creedmoor, with added frontal diameter, mass, and energy. Leupold's custom shop installed a dual-rotation turret with both zero stop and zero lock, solving the issue; installed a capable MOA reticle; and Cerakoted the scope Tungsten Gray to match the Summit rifle. While possible, it's not ideal. Armed with the two handloads — the Berger for use in competition and on game up through small to medium elk and the Barnes for mature, heavy-boned, and densely muscled bull elk, moose, and bison — I'm well equipped for darn near anything. Gilding metal (90 percent copper, 10 percent zinc) was first thought too soft for the friction generated by 150-grain bullets in .30-06 service ammunition. 15 Posts . The 300. Paired with a mountain-weight barrel and carbon-fiber stock, the rifle should come in at between 5.75 and 6.5 pounds, depending on action length. velocities and nips at the heels of the 7mm Remington Magnum. More and more production rifles are being chambered for 280 AI … For readers unfamiliar with the cartridge, it is simply the .280 Remington that's had its shoulder angle and body taper "blown out" to increase internal capacity. .280 remington Been doing a lot of research on the.280 and it seems to be neck and neck with the ole work horse 30-06. The downside? Eventually, a set of parameters established themselves in my over-fertile imagination, and I defined the mythical rifle that might do everything as follows. To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. weight, the sectional density is much better, giving better arodynamics in … 280 Remington As Goldilocks. You can see how a bull moose reacted to my 7mm Rem. I have a Remington Custom Shop .280 Remington that weighs just six pounds and will group at ½ MOA. The 280 Remington and the 284 Winchester will shoot bullets of 160 grains and heavier to nearly the same velocity and point of impact. The 7mm Remington Express was simply the 280 Remington with a "fancy monicker"! 175 Gr. As a plus, the carbon-fiber wrapping seems to dampen vibration, making for a very forgiving barrel. 2. A bit more heft in the riflescope was a necessary evil. The resulting accuracy was 0.75 MOA, which is definitely plenty good for hunting, but vague pressure signs accompanied the accuracy node I found via ladder tests. Joined: May 23, 2006 Messages: 98 Location: NYC. Developed by P.O. Discussion in 'Hunting' started by salthouse, Jun 19, 2006. velocities and nips at the heels of the 7mm Remington Magnum. Ackley's most popular Improved cartridge, holding the honor of being the only one ever legitimized by a major ammo company. I have been working up some loads for my .280 Rem., with 22" barrel. Just noticed this was resurrected from a year ago.Wonder if he had any luck. With only seconds to shoot, I ranged the bull at 472 yards, dialed the turret, snugged up behind the Summit rifle, and put a bullet precisely through the quartering-away bull's boiler room. Chris Polley of Proof Research happened to hand me one of the company's Summit model rifles while visiting at a tradeshow. Unlike the .30 calibers, which rarely use the heaviest 220-grain hunting bullets, the 175-grain 7mm bullets make a great choice for elk, moose and larger African antelope. Match bullet. James Tarr runs through the 3-Second Headshot drill. When Remingtonintroduced its lightweight M700 Mountain rifle back in the early 1990s it wasinitially offered in .280, along with the .30/06 and .270. ©2020 Outdoor Sportsman Group. A century ago, bullets were just getting used to high speed. I've competed with it, hunted with it, and helped new shooters ring faraway targets with it. Both impacted inside the 6-inch black dot spray painted in the steel target's center. Now, aside from the AR-15 I keep handy for personal protection, the Summit is the rifle I reach for most. Not too hard, not too soft, not too fast, not too slow, but just right because it shoots mid-caliber .284-inch diameter bullets. With the Vortex Extreme Challenge fast approaching, I loaded 10 test rounds with Berger's 168-grain VLD Hunting bullet, and voilà the rifle averaged 0.4 inch over a series of consecutive three-shot groups. Nonplussed, I turned back to the Berger load. We look at the futuristic .450 Bushmaster and how it compares to the tried and true .45-70. Team partner Paul Dallin and I scored high in pure shooting results and respectably overall. Ackley and Fred Huntington and known previously by a variety of names such as the “.280 Rem. 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