Yes I did buy a 280 AI - I'm looking for a bigger hammer without going to a mag of some type. I find myself hunting elk in the timber. The last 3-4 I've killed have been in the timber and 50 yards or less. I'd do a 9.3 all day except I don't have enough meat in my 30-06 barrel to do a re-bore.................
I think a 280 AI shooting 160 NAB at 2950 and a 338-06 shooting 225 NPT or equivalent would make a good pair of rifles for about anything on earth except the really big bitey/stompem/gore 'em to death types. I could call the pair "Near" and "Far". <G>
