Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 280 or 7-08 for Texas ??

Yet another vote for the 7-08.

I've killed a lot of Texas game with it and never wished for a .280.

7mm-08

270 Win


(Had to, the campfire made me. )

If I can’t hold muh unit in my hand, I wanna hold a fat belted magnum cartridge, so that’s wize I shoots uh 7mm REM MAG, and so should you.

Load it lite with 120 grain boolits and a lite load, and she’ll work good furs yuh, and you can pass that cannon down to a son or grandson, not no girly man, and they can load it up to max while enjoying it for years to come while they think of you while using it uh huntin’.

Gitcha a lite weight 7mm RM, and some good 120g all copper boolits. That rat thar’ pards is whutcha needs.

Plus, you can talk trash to your fellow buds your age back at camp, who have scaled down, and ask them why they are shooting a ladies gun. Cuz you and I know, a deer camp in Texas ain’t worth crap unless you have a bunch of good ole pals talking trash all weekend. When you drag that big ole East Texas paper mill lease buck into camp, just give them a big ole smile, and tell them it was shot with this har’ 7 mag.

And then go grab “their” whiskey bottle and pour yourself a drink, and talk some more trash.

280 or 280AI will always get my vote.

Easy choice....7mm08 and 140AB's.

Thought you were a 120 NBT guy?

DF

Love those 120's, but that Accubond is my fave.

The bearded fellow looks like Frank McGrath, “Cookie”, on Wagon Train.

Love my 280’s. Love my 308’s. Don’t need a 7-08. Nothing against it.

The bearded fellow looks like Frank McGrath, “Cookie”, on Wagon Train
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YEAH, he do !

Am sometimes amazed this thread had gone on so long.

On the other hand, the longest "best cartridge" threads seem to be comparisons of very similar rounds.

If somebody really cares to compromise (apparently rare these days), they could "build" a 7x57 Ackley Improved on a medium-length action. That would change their lives!

Loony ruminations can't be that surprising...

DF

I dislike short actions, and I have a few. I tend to shoot a lot and I will eventually burn out the barrel in most calibers under 375. With the some/many short actions the cartridge length is limited by the magazine length so with the 51mm and longer cartridges there's no way to chase the lead. With a short action, that means the accuracy fails sooner. If your 7mm-08 is on a Mauser action, that wouldn't be an issue and there's a couple of commercial actions that would work too.

The 280 is my one of my favorite cartridges. And although I have a 7mm-08 in a Tikka, there would be no question/hesitation for me, it would be the 280.

I didn't read where you mentioned what you're hunting in Texas. There's a few "exotic" game ranches in Texas, I understand, though I have not hunted on any. But other than that: several species of deer, wild hogs, pronghorn, coyotes and I suppose elk (I never hunted elk in Texas and do not know about same).

If you are a 20 rounds per year or less shooter, the barrel life is no big deal.

A 270 with 140 AB's bounces off.....

For sure...

DF

As a life-long Texan who has hunted mostly whitetails in East, Coastal, and "South" Texas, I have a pair of .270's, as well as a pair of .30-06's - but my "favorite" Deer gun is a Savage 99 in .300 Savage - GREAT for whitetails and feral hogs!

Mike Holmes

Stirring the pot?

If you want the least recoil then the 7mm-08 is the way to go,I have three of them.

But the 280 shoots flatter because it is faster. Recently I chronographed two of my favorite factory loads. The Winchester 140 grain Ballistic Silver Tip load in 7mm-08 and the exact same bullet in 280.

The 280 load was a little over 200fps faster,but it was close enough to call it 200 fps. When you sight them both 1.5 inches high at 100 yards the 280 gives you about a 50 yard advantage in terms of point and shoot hunting. If you use a range finder and a multipoint reticle or turrets then it doesn't matter much.

But for open but broken country deer hunting when you don't have time to fiddle with a bunch of gadgets,the 280 is a little better choice.

Nah...

No way...

DF