Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 280 rem vs 7mm mag

One of the main advantages of the 280 is that you can chamber it in a nice light rifle with a 22-inch barrel. The heavy critter you're looking at negates that advantage - I'd go with the 7RemMag and scope and never look back.

If the 280 were a 700 mountain rifle then we'd have ourselves a real dilemma.