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What to do with 280 Rem mountain rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="SSTX" data-source="post: 2656684" data-attributes="member: 56302"><p>The first centerfire hunting rifle I bought for myself was an original M700 Mountain Rifle in .270, back about 1993 (used family rifles till then). It initially shot standard (factory loads) Hornady custom 130gr spire points into 1-1.25". I started handloading with that rifle, using new RP brass and 130gr BT and Partitions. Floated the barrel and saw consistent sub-MOA (.8ish) groups with the BT's, around 1" with Partitions. Had to work with 3-rd groups to accommodate the thin barrel. But, the rifle slayed numerous whitetail. Wish I had never let it go, always thought it would make a great re-barrel to 7x57 or .257 Roberts on the standard long action. OP, sounds like you have a solid plan to move forward with, don't see why the rifle won't respond with the current barrel still on it. I had a Leupold 3-9x33 lightweight compact scope on mine, If I still had it would probably have put a 3.5-10x40 Vari-XIII(VX3i today) on it by now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSTX, post: 2656684, member: 56302"] The first centerfire hunting rifle I bought for myself was an original M700 Mountain Rifle in .270, back about 1993 (used family rifles till then). It initially shot standard (factory loads) Hornady custom 130gr spire points into 1-1.25". I started handloading with that rifle, using new RP brass and 130gr BT and Partitions. Floated the barrel and saw consistent sub-MOA (.8ish) groups with the BT's, around 1" with Partitions. Had to work with 3-rd groups to accommodate the thin barrel. But, the rifle slayed numerous whitetail. Wish I had never let it go, always thought it would make a great re-barrel to 7x57 or .257 Roberts on the standard long action. OP, sounds like you have a solid plan to move forward with, don't see why the rifle won't respond with the current barrel still on it. I had a Leupold 3-9x33 lightweight compact scope on mine, If I still had it would probably have put a 3.5-10x40 Vari-XIII(VX3i today) on it by now. [/QUOTE]
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