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Mule Deer, with your lack of current knowledge on this topic, and recognizing your astute observations about the current presidental administration earlier in this thread,maybe you should become a political correspondent rather than continue as an out of date middle aged gun writer!
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Hey, that's a thought! It would probably pay better too.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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You could even be on TV on the Sunday talk shows.
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So far as cartridge length, changing bullets, changing powders, etc ... I spent 4 years on this rifle doing that. It's a good idea but it's a "used"  idea. Or "BTDT". I won't tolerate finicky guns anymore.......I'm of the opinion that good guns are not too finicky, and will shoot a variety of loads well. Finicky guns go down the road pretty quickly after doing the bedding correctly a couple of different ways & load testing with tried & true components & a few variants to be sure all the reasonable trials & have been tested. I'm convinced there are more "bad" barrels around than one might suspect.......... MM
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but if you have a .257 roberts shouldn't you get a .30 instead of a .28? I mean the difference is only .023 with the .28 and it would be more with the .30?
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but if you have a .257 roberts shouldn't you get a .30 instead of a .28? I don't think so....a 7mm is a lot more rifle than any 25 cal. 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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then I am selling my .308Win montana to get a 7-08!
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Laffin!  Not sure I'd do that. Both are good. I bought one yesterday...sorta.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Brad, re preference to heavy bullets in 708, had my former 700V with 4-14 AO tactical at 200 yds, shot a 3 shot group 7/8" w 100 Hornady HP over Varget in RP
Brass. Chopped at 21" in a VLS unbedded stock, sans tits, floating.
Another trip same load shot about 5/8 @200yds as well. Baffling.
140s always shot better than 120s and 150 SMK were bugholing.
Those 100s btw had plenty jump. Never tried vmax but they were great in a 7 BR rifle. One gets surprises...
I've had 7 RM and 270s alike prefer 150 vs 140/130 BTs.
Bobin, splain "Sorta"
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65: "sorta" means I slapped a deposit on it on my way home from hunting in Maine yesterday,whilst I cogitate further. 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Yeah, everybody knows a 7mm cartridge works fine on elk, and a .25 caliber won't--except my wife Eileen, the well-known stunt shooter.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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She has 'issues'.....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Yeah, everybody knows a 7mm cartridge works fine on elk, and a .25 caliber won't--except my wife Eileen, the well-known stunt shooter. John now I never said that... Never myself but I have stood over a few elk killed with 25's. In any event, I ain't getting dragged into the conversation.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Is JBs wife's maiden name Roberts?
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Yeah, everybody knows a 7mm cartridge works fine on elk, and a .25 caliber won't--except my wife Eileen, the well-known stunt shooter. Well she does have an edge........she's using YOUR handloads, right? MM
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A wise man!
One of my hunting partners on an elk hunt here in Montana a couple years ago killed a good 6-point bull with one 120-grain Partition from a .257 Weatherby. But we won't discuss that either.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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A wise man!
One of my hunting partners on an elk hunt here in Montana a couple years ago killed a good 6-point bull with one 120-grain Partition from a .257 Weatherby. But we won't discuss that either. Yup! Bullets matter. Early days in Wyoming, before I had killed any elk myself, I recall digging 100 gr bullets from elk carcasses, first from the 250 Savage,and then from the Roberts and 25/06. That I was working on dead elk sort of spoke for itself. About that time I started thinking something was not kosher with all the elk cartridge discussions I heard before then...  Anyway I am off to the range to play with a Roberts. 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Maybe next year I will kill an elk with a 70gr TSX and really shake things up around here........grin
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Hey, Bob! When do we get a Maine hunting story????
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Hey, Bob! When do we get a Maine hunting story???? Fred I can't talk about it!  It is so sad.... I have been out hustled by more big whitetails than any other animal....and it happened again. 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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