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    new bucket list rifle coming

    Ive been looking for a 280. really wanted a control fed 70 featherweight. Buds had them but funds were short at the time and they sold them all out. Got a email yesterday that they just got 6 so i jumped. I had 3 280s, a #1b a rem 700 mountain rifle and a push feed featherweight. Stupidly sold them all back when i first started crop damage shooting and thought if i didnt have a magnum out there im might as well throw rocks. Well this one is here till the bury me. My two favorite bolt guns are featherweights and rem classics. I will have 3 featherweights. a 257 rob an 06 and now the 280. classics i have a 6mm 8mm mauser and 300 H&H. I always say any of my guns are for sale for the right offer but those 6 will be handed out after my wake.

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    Hope you kept the dies, brass, and bullets when you sold the other .280's. Glad you got what you wanted...hope you can shoot it!!!
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    kept the dies and have LOTS of 7mm bullets had about 75 rounds of brass and still had 60 rounds of loaded ammo and found another 100 or so brass on here. Kept the dies amazingly. Dont know how many times ive give dies away with a gun and ended up having to buy another set. I guess i always knew id have to have another 280

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    That 280 should be able to straddle "The Big Mack" from the northern shore to the southern shore. A real Sturgeon shooter! Have a great weekend! Fireball
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    "stupidly sold them....."
    tell me about it. I had 3 featherweights, 2 of which I let go. I still have my first, a push feed 06. .270s are a dime a dozen and easy enough to pick up another if I were so inclined. It was decently accurate but this area of NY had just opened to allowing rifles and a guy waved a fistful of cash at me. I deeply regret letting the control feed 7 x 57 go.
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    I had a custom 280 AI built on a trued Rem 700 action and bartlein (I think) barrel. Rifle is gorgeous and man does it shoot. Getting a solid 1/2-3/4 MOA out to 300yds using a 150gr Nosler AB or BT and 4831 powder. Humming along at 2960 out the gate and single digit ES. Not blistering fast but is super accurate and gets the job done.

    I hope you enjoy and have a successful load work up and enjoy for years to come.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatnhappy View Post
    "stupidly sold them....."
    tell me about it. I had 3 featherweights, 2 of which I let go. I still have my first, a push feed 06. .270s are a dime a dozen and easy enough to pick up another if I were so inclined. It was decently accurate but this area of NY had just opened to allowing rifles and a guy waved a fistful of cash at me. I deeply regret letting the control feed 7 x 57 go.
    ive got rid of two. A push feed 257 roberts that was a turd of a shooter and a push feed 280 that was a decent shooter. It would do about a 1 1/4 with its best loads. I recently got a push feed 06 and its a downright tack driver. First load i tried was one i spent alot of time working up for my rem 700 to get it at moa. That load shot just under 3/4s of an inch for an AVERAGE of 3 5 shot groups. I got the gun late last fall and never went any further with it. Ive got a bunch of loads to try in it this summer but dont know what i have to gain. I guess for the most part the only reason im doing it is my 700 shoots 150s best and id like this featherweight to shoot a 165. But truth be told i could live with that 150 interlock and not loose sleep. Ive killed probably 50 deer with that load of deer with that bullet in the 700. This 280 will be my first control round fed one. If it shoots ill die with it in the safe.

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    Just wondering, how long is your bucket list? I try to keep mine under five.

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    Nice choice. I think the often ignored .280 is a much better round than either the .270 or any of the 7mm magnums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GregLaROCHE View Post
    Just wondering, how long is your bucket list? I try to keep mine under five.
    5 at any given time
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    Quote Originally Posted by GregLaROCHE View Post
    Just wondering, how long is your bucket list? I try to keep mine under five.
    just picked up a 7mag and rifles are what my list is today so only two left. Im out to replace the rifles i sold when i went through my black handgun stage. Only two left area 257wby and a 264win mag.

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    I had a 264 Win Mag (the Westerner) and couldn't get rid of it fast enough. The barrel was shot out and at 100 yds it would shoot about a 30" group. I sold it with full disclosure.

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    I have a featherweight in 308w that I still haven’t taken out of the box from about 10 years ago. You guys have me thinking about taking it out and mounting a Leupold 4X on it that doesn’t have a home. I love the 280 round. Have a TC pro hunter in that caliber and sold a Rem 742 in same caliber a couple years ago (should have kept it!)… Great shooting can do round.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RonE View Post
    I had a 264 Win Mag (the Westerner) and couldn't get rid of it fast enough. The barrel was shot out and at 100 yds it would shoot about a 30" group. I sold it with full disclosure.
    sounds like my last 264 A ruger markII but it was brand new. Lucky to shoot 3 inch groups. Last 7 mag i had was a tang safety ruger that shot even worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lloyd Smale View Post
    sounds like my last 264 A ruger markII but it was brand new. Lucky to shoot 3 inch groups. Last 7 mag i had was a tang safety ruger that shot even worse.
    the last Dog I owned was a rem 7 kevlar stock SS in 7-08. I tried everything and the smallest group I ever got out of it was 2" I pawned that off on a guy with more money than brains.


    On the flip side though, my tang safety 7-08 will hold 1 1/8" 5 shot groups at 200 yards all day as long as I do my part. It's neither picky about powders nor bullets. RL19, IMR4895, W748, W760, H380 and IMR4350 all produce sub 1" groups at 100 with almost every 140 grain bullet I tried.

    My son took his first deer with that rifle, a head on shot at 150 yards.





    and all these years later My boring old 06 featherweight remains my mainstay.
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    one of my buckett list rifles was a custom deluxe 700 remington in 35 whelen, at a local GS two weeks ago it appeared and now its mine.Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatnhappy View Post
    the last Dog I owned was a rem 7 kevlar stock SS in 7-08. I tried everything and the smallest group I ever got out of it was 2" I pawned that off on a guy with more money than brains.


    On the flip side though, my tang safety 7-08 will hold 1 1/8" 5 shot groups at 200 yards all day as long as I do my part. It's neither picky about powders nor bullets. RL19, IMR4895, W748, W760, H380 and IMR4350 all produce sub 1" groups at 100 with almost every 140 grain bullet I tried.

    My son took his first deer with that rifle, a head on shot at 150 yards.





    and all these years later My boring old 06 featherweight remains my mainstay.
    ive got one of those boring 06 featherweights myself. Its a tack driver and right now if i had to keep only one rifle that would be the one. Looks identical right down to the scope. Might be replaced by the new 280 featherweight if it is as good of a shooter. Love the caliber and this new one has some exceptioanal whole gun has tiger stripping in the grain. Stock could easily pass for a super grade stock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eastbank View Post
    one of my buckett list rifles was a custom deluxe 700 remington in 35 whelen, at a local GS two weeks ago it appeared and now its mine.Click image for larger version. 

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    Thats nice too!

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    Don't have a 280....Remington was kinda late to the party with it. I do have a 1919 Wilhelm Brenneke in 7 X 64 Brenneke. It does ok.....
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