You haven't been the same since the boar hunting trip with Mossy. Best I ever got out of a 24" barrelled 280 was 2875 with a 140 grain bullet. With a 26" number 1 2950 all these were with ballistic tips. With the 24" gun I was getting 3070 with Federal Premium 140 grain TBBC bullets. I am not saying you need 3000 for this thing to work it should be plenty for any whitetail or mule deer. The barrel on the mauser btw is 26" .