I went down Friday To SD to hunt again. I decided to try my kind of new NEF 280. When I got the thing the trigger was awful heavy. I worked on it myself off and on for a month. Got it pretty good finally. All I had on hand buy the time I decided to use it was a box of Sierra 120 grain pro-hunter bullets. I was a little worried that they may be to fragil but Sierra says in the manual that they are good deer bullets for the smaller 7mm cartridges. I chronograghed them at 2920 fps. Loaded with IMR 4831. Early Friday morning we came on a good size bunch of Mule deer. I picked the biggest doe in the bunch. She was almost275 lbs live weight. They were on top of this canyon about 200 yards away and about to bolt. I dont like to do shoulder shots because of meat damage but they were to close to that deep draw so I held directly on the upper front shoulder. At the shot she went down right in her tracks. On skinning I found the bullet had broken the shoulder and took out the lungs and exited about 10 inches further back on the opposite side. I quess this is excellent performance for a lighter for caliber bullet. I can look up the exact load if anyone is intersted in that combo. I really like the NEF 280. I have a 3x9x40 Swift scope on it. It seem to be a good combo. It groups about 1 1/2 inches with most loads. Not bad for a 190.00 dollar rifle. I do want to try the Nosler BT. I have a dozen of them loaded but the waether really went to hell after our hunt and I didn' t get a chance to try them.