We found the overall look of the Remington to be somewhat garish. The last two letters of the Remington’s designation of 700 BDL DM means that it came with a detachable magazine. The stock had Ruger’s classic straight-line buttstock configuration, clean and neat. The stock had a black pistol grip cap, black rubber recoil pad and blued steel swivel studs, all of which were very well installed. The action and barrel had a bright polish, and the bolt body and knob were white stainless steel with a medium polish. The Ruger also had a floorplate made of matte black aluminum, but its trigger guard was made of steel. The overall lines of the rifle were clean and classic, though we felt there could have been a little less wood mass at the pistol grip for the best looks. The trigger guard and floorplate were made of aluminum alloy with a matte black finish. It had a plug in its left side that indicated the presence of a cross-pin for stock strength. The stock had a satin finish and well-cut checkering. It came with a brown rubber recoil pad and blued steel swivel studs, all of which were carefully installed. We felt this rifle closely resembled the Winchester Model 70, at least in the action profile, tang contour, safety, floorplate release button, and one or two other features. The Marlin had a white jeweled bolt body with a blued handle. We put Burris 3-9X Fullfield scopes on all three rifles for our testing. Only the Remington had iron sights, though they are available as an option on the Marlin. They all held four rounds in their magazines. They had blued finishes and 22-inch barrels, and weighed between 7-1/4 and 7-1/2 pounds. Our three test rifles all had stocks made of walnut. 280 rifle should you buy? We bought a Remington 700 BDL DM, a Ruger Model 77R Mark II and a Marlin MR-7 in the caliber and tried them out for you. By any name, this is one of the finest all-around rifle cartridges for North American hunting, though many think it’s too small for moose and big elk. Confusion resulted, and that company resurrected the original name. 280 has a lot going for it.ĭuring the period 1979-1980, Remington called this cartridge the 7mm Remington Express. Unless you handload, the 7×57 comes in last because it is not factory loaded to as a high pressure as the 7mm-08. 280 beats the 7mm-08 and the 7×57 in this caliber, because their cases are smaller. 280 has greater headspace length than the. It offers good case capacity and a wider selection of bullet weights and types than are currently available for the. Factory loads don’t include 175-grain bullets, but that is one more useful bullet weight for this cartridge.Ī shooter/handloader wanting versatility and outstanding overall performance with a bit less recoil than the. 280 Remington loads today use bullet weights of 120, 140, 150, and 165 grains, at velocities from 3150 feet per second (120-grain) to 2820 feet per second (165-grain). Our Senior Technical Editor Ray Ordorica can vouch for that, having tried it himself.įactory. Today, with so many available powders covering a very wide range of burning rates, there is little need for duplex loading, although it did everything Elmer said it did. The original Keith duplex load used very heavy bullets.
#280 REMINGTON RIFLE SERIES#
280, and it was the first of a series of OKH cartridges which featured an extended flash tube, Elmer’s duplex loads, and gave extremely good performance. 285 OKH case was essentially identical to the. Right after World War II, Elmer Keith and his friends Charlie O’Neil and Don Hopkins did some historic testing with a cartridge they called the. 280 Remington an introduction date of 1957 (chambered in, of all things, the Remington Model 740 autoloader), but many a handloader had experimented with the 7mm-06 long before that. 280 Ross, introduced in 1906, had essentially identical performance, though its case was a bit bigger. This cartridge concept actually goes back a long time. 280 is 0.284 inch, same as the 7×57 and 7mm Magnum. 280 Remington, which is probably a more useful cartridge today than the.
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