ORIGINAL: popeye
As much as I love my 280 I can't honestly say that there is enough difference between it and a 270 that anyone would ever notice.
If you want more energy at longer ranges with similar recoil , you need to increase the caliber and weight of the bullet. For instance, a 338-06 shoots a 200gr bullet at similar velocity and tragectory as a 30-06 shoots a 180gr bullet and with simliar recoil but the 338 bullet will hit harder when it gets there.
This is what im talking about in what i would like to see in the future popeye, increasing downrange energy and decreasing arc without the added recoil. I mean really, we can put a man on the moon with less than 30 years of research, but we cant make a better bullet? The military is doing research now on caseless ammo, and so far it looks pretty promising, but it only addresses the concerns of weight and component cost. Will it bring us hunters and shooters added benefits? Sure it will. But not the benefits some of us are looking for. Hornady and some of the other bullet manufacturers have started doing this by increasing the BC of some of their bullets by adding the polymer tips, but nothing radical has happened in bullet design in a long, long time. When it comes down to it, does it bother me so much to use my 300wsm for those long shots on thick skin game? No. But wouldn't beit cool if i could do the same with something that kicked like my daughters 243....