Carmichael said the .280Rem was were it was at with the 7's. WTH did he know?
Carmichael jumped on the 280 bandwagon because he followed O'Connor and there was really no where else to go. It would not have been PC for Carmichael to use a 270; he needed his own cartridge.
Carmichael could have used anything similar with the same worldwide results because he could shoot...but he mostly use a 140 Nosler Partition at just under 3100 fps as I recall.The rifle was a Clayton Nelson M70 custom.
As a general purpose 7mm for BG hunting Im grabbing a 280 Remington a LONG time before any short action 7mm.
Here's one of mine from a by gone era,a custom Mauser by Kevin Campbell purchased from George Caswell, and that I sold years ago; but not before I hunted it East and West for 4-5 years.
I burned out the original barrel and George replaced it with a Douglas.
Had not seen the rifle in years. It was common back then for snarky Yankees to buy airline tickets to hunt far places and get their experience shooting rifles and hunting, instead of reading about it on the Internet.
http://www.gunsinternational.com/gu...arna-mauser-280-rem.cfm?gun_id=100656909
