Thank you all for the comments both good and bad. Yes I am a rifle nut and love to handload, lets face it, you can buy factory 338-06 and spend $3 a shot or handload and really have fun. This is one of my reasons to go with these two cartridges. I was also looking at the 25-06 but the deer do get a little bigger where I hunt and believe in more bullet weight the better.
I could get away with just the 338-06 and live happily ever after but how much fun would that be. I have 2 great loads worked up for it with a 180gr Nosler AB and 210 Nos Part.
The 280 has interested me for yrs though and nothing against the 270 but I like being different. Plus being of German desent, have to have a 7mm somewhere in my hunting/shooting career.
The thing I worry about is the 338-06 will get lonely if this thing shoots good....
