Well Bob, you should have kept fishing.
It's gotta be a lot cheaper hobby than taking one of the heaviest rifle actions ever designed and having some big money smith try to make it into something semi-portable.
Regarding the Mashburn and the STW, I don't need to load every cartridge ever designed to know how they will perform.
It may surprise you, but the laws of physics are incredibly reliable indicators. For the 7RM, Mashburn, and 7STW case capacity is all I need to know.
So tell me oh experienced one . . . why such a hard-on for the 280AI? I can only surmise your 270 fetish is showing.
It a SAAMI round sitting squarely between the 270/280 and the 7RM, and can be had in a 6lb rifle right off the shelf.
Or better yet, explain the tremendous virtues of the Mashburn, sitting squarely between the 7RM and the STW, A wildcat, requiring a full length magnum action to achieve the modest increase over the SAAMI 7RM.
Please educate me. Detail the tremendous Mashburn upside. Or rationalize on.
