AStone
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OK, your post and a couple of others that I've read in the last few hours have opened another can of worms for me.GeoW said:The 7mm express as it was labled 20 years ago or longer or better known as the .280 is an excellent choice especially for the recoil sensetive as it is down loaded from the factory to be safely fired in the auto loaders for which it was first chambered. Shoots easy. Can be hot rodded if handloaded.
I'm now trying to make a decision between .308 and 7mm08. (Sorry, I know this thread is about .270, but I started it and broadened the range of calibers under discussion earlier, so...)
The main reason I've been leaning hard towards .308 in recent days is that - even though I like the fact that the 7mm08 has flatter trajectories and less recoil than .308 (even if marginally) - for factory loads (I don't reload...yet), the .308 has a significantly wider range of loads than the 7mm08. (125-180 gr. v. 120-140 gr)
But now I'm realizing - or I think this is correct (based on GeoW's comment AND a note on the Remington ammunition ballistics pages) that the 280 "express" are identical to 7mm08.
Now, I'm a bit unclear: is the 7mm08 the "same" as 7mm Express? That is, is "express" the name of a type of Remington ammunition that can be shot in any gun, or is there a different type of caliber out there? I suspect the former.
And if .280 & 7mm08 are identical in the sense that their ammo is interchangable (at least with express rnds???), then that significantly increases the range of rounds available for a 7mm08 to at least 165 gr in the .280.
Am I onto something, or just a nut job?
(Well, OK, definitely a nut job, but that's beside the point...
Thanks for any clarifications.
Nem