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<blockquote data-quote="ndking1126" data-source="post: 2284987" data-attributes="member: 26820"><p>As long as you mean 280 and not 280AI, 7mmRM would be a good upgrade. 280 is perfectly capable of killing deer from a pretty decent distance and elk at reasonable distances. You didn't include a use case that makes you NEED a bigger caliber, but nothing wrong with buying one anyways. (As others mentioned, providing your intended distances would help. We are shooting in the dark for now.)</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, 7mmRM isn't the most efficient cartridge any more. Many can get the same ballistics from less powder (so less recoil and barrel wear, all else being equal). I just built a 7mmRM for elk because I only had a long action on hand. If I was starting from scratch, I probably would have gone 6.8 Western.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ndking1126, post: 2284987, member: 26820"] As long as you mean 280 and not 280AI, 7mmRM would be a good upgrade. 280 is perfectly capable of killing deer from a pretty decent distance and elk at reasonable distances. You didn't include a use case that makes you NEED a bigger caliber, but nothing wrong with buying one anyways. (As others mentioned, providing your intended distances would help. We are shooting in the dark for now.) On the other hand, 7mmRM isn't the most efficient cartridge any more. Many can get the same ballistics from less powder (so less recoil and barrel wear, all else being equal). I just built a 7mmRM for elk because I only had a long action on hand. If I was starting from scratch, I probably would have gone 6.8 Western. [/QUOTE]
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