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Pac Nor Pig Popper
Chambered in 7-08
Pac Nor fluted the bolt and bead blast it.
Pac Nor Mountain contour barrel at 20”
Leupold 2.5-8x
Top notch accuracy with several loads.

I wouldn't switch to 280 if I had all the loading kit for 270 and the chambering has served me well in the past. I doubt that Joe Avg. shooter would be able to tell the difference on game.

FWIW .... I do own a 280 and not a 270 in sight nor have I ever shot anything with a 270.

I have 2, one on a 22/250 that Karl put together for me one one a 300 win that Ernie Boardman put together.

Both are lights out shooters

I have a couple of their 3 grooves. Exellent barrels, Exellent people. Glad they are back up and running after the fire.

Ordered my 1st barrel from them, 9 months ago. My case is a little different than yours as I just had them make up a drop in barrel for a CZ527. They were or are finding they need to replace & make new buttons for ones lost in the fire & to accommodate some of the new longer bullet choices. re-tooling for this fast twist 5 groove barrel may be part of the reason for the slower 6 month turn around I experienced.

So Ill share this is my first what Il call semi custom barrel. Never have I done my part quite as well in breaking in a new barrel. Though I am clear they did there part very well. Never have I had a rifle that cleaned up remotely as easy as this 1 in 7 twist 5 groove 6mm ARC barrel. As I understand they have altered the geometry of the rifling and thus the buttons a bit. the new geometry is supposed to improve the ease of cleaning over the more square rifling of days gone by. apparently this rifling type I had done tends to be a good deal faster than some other rifling options.

I find i need to load on the order of 1 grain below max load data being offered to get away from pressure. As I recall at 1 grain below max book load data I am still experiencing velocity above what is listed as a max load. these faster velocities are with a barrel 2" shorter than the test barrels.

Great company. When they had the fire, I had two action there being barreled. One was ready to ship and the other just a couple days from ready. I told them to ship them both together when they were done with the second one. The next day they had the fire.

They refunded all the money for barreling and the value I gave for the actions.

I sent them an action last winter. Just got it back. It makes my third. I’ve been happy with all of them.

I’m very glad they are still working.

As far as switching calibers...maybe try buying either ammo or brass for 280 Rem right now. Brass is very tough to find and it will probably be someone else's used brass, factory ammo is impossible.

Not a great time to be switching to a less-than-popular caliber and while it's nothing like what you can get in 7mm, there are now a few pretty sleek 277 bullets.

I'd stick with the 270 but get a 1:8 twist or something along those lines. You can use all your old components and ammo and with a 1:8 twist you can run all the 170gr+ .277 bullets you want.

Not sure how long Pacnor cuts their barrel cylinders but it will probably be longer than Remingtons. You might ask for a short barrel cylinder and you could also ask them to finish the barrel a little longer on the skinny end, 24" vs 22" The 270 gains quite a bit with a longer barrel and you can always cut it shorter if you want. Though I am maybe overly partial to long skinny barrels.

I've got a Montana in 270 wsm that I was going to send to them for a 6.5 4s before the fire. I have a 6.5 prc that I like now so I've thought of sending it in to do another 7 wsm but in an 8 twist or an 8 or 9 twist 300 wsm.

Bb

Nothing like spending Krieger type money on a Pacnor 🤣

Truth!