I'm shopping cartridges for a personal all North American game getter , I have several 30-06's , but I have this homely used up Mauser that I would like to build up to a solid plains/mountain gun. I don't forsee anything bigger or tougher than a Ca brown bear in my future and my 06's are sufficiant for elk or moose.

After some paper research it appears that the 280s only advantage over the 270 is the 175 grain bullet which can be matched speed wise by a 180 in the 06.

I guess I've talked myself into and out of the 280 , but would like to hear about it from the field ,and to have something just a little differnt .