My dad' s got a .280 that gets plenty of use. He' s taken it on his annual Texas hunt for about four years, four deer every year, and across the 16 deer, if you added it all up, they ran about 15 yards after the shot. The gun just kills deer flat-out dead. It' s almost exactly the .270, with a lot less availability. If you can deal with shopping around for ammo, great gun.