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    Posted: August/18/2008 at 15:15

There is an article by Lane Simpson in the October 2008 Shooting Times about Nosler making the brass and loaded ammo.  Nosler is also offering 500 of their rifles chambered in .280 AI.

Pretty cool deal.

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I agree and would love to have one.
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yeah pretty neat is right, 7mm mag performance without a belt and still no loss of a round in the mag either
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3000 fps + with a 160 gr Accubond.  The Nosler brass makes it easy even though fireforming the regular 280 rem brass can be quite accurate as long as you don't go through the process of forming a false shoulder
 
This was with a slow lot of powder so anyone looking, don't duplicate without working up in your rifle
 
62 grains of RL25 has been a more consistant performer for me lately though.  If you get a tight neck then you will have to deal with do-nuts to maintain accuracy
 
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61.4 shoots pretty nice man thats impressive
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If I were limited to only one rifle for deer hunting, I'd reach for my 280 Ackley with no regrets. Mild recoil, accurate, easy on barrels, flat shooting, great brass life and more than enough power for Deer and Elk.

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Originally posted by Roy Finn Roy Finn wrote:

If I were limited to only one rifle for deer hunting, I'd reach for my 280 Ackley with no regrets. Mild recoil, accurate, easy on barrels, flat shooting, great brass life and more than enough power for Deer and Elk.
dont forget the 7mm's have a great bullet selection for reloading too.
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That was a given........
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Originally posted by Roy Finn Roy Finn wrote:

That was a given........
just trying pump up the .280 great caliber with or with the ack imp.
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The Ackley gets about 500 fps more I think............
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no, more like 200-300 i think
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I was kiddin...
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Realisticly, it's probably around 75-100 fps.
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I liked the 500 fps difference!  Excellent  Can I quote you on that Roy?
 
IMO (admittedly severely biased) the 280AI is a caliber that can go on any hunt you have in the lower 48.  The 270 is a little small for Elk and the 30-06 is too slow, at least with heavy enough bullets to have decent sectional density.  The 7 mag is OK but sometimes it is too fast and the bullets get squirrelly on impact.  The 300 win mag is great but kicks harder than it has to.
 
I like bullets with good sectional density to travel right around 3000 fps.  I'll settle for 2900 fps and will throttle back at 3100 fps.  That way they might not get crazy at 50 yds and will still have enough to do good at 500 yds.
 
IOW, if I'm going Speed Goat hunting I will take my 280AI and my 6.5 rem mag.  For Elk it will be my 280AI and my 300 win mag (or maybe the new 338RUM when it gets here).  Rain, I'll take the stainless 280AI or shine take the other one.  Means I have to leave my Steyr 30-06 in the safe.  Sad  I'm getting too many guns.


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Anyone who ownes a .280AI is probably a reloader or has a really good friend that is. I don't see that changing as the price point for a box of .280AI factory ammo from Nosler is around $75 dollars.
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My Ackley is strictly a hand-loaded proposition. I would never pay 75 bucks for a box of ammo.
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Just got the Shooting Times mag in the mail today and I wished it had more load data. Turns out that my estimation of velocity gains was pretty close to what Simpson stated as well. The other thing I forgot to mention was that the Ackley improved cartridges generally have longer brass life as well.
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feb 08 issue of handloader had an article on the .280ai with some reloading data, if you want it let me know i will post it.
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