I've been shooting a 6/284 for the past 30 years. Have been very satisfied with it but want to save it. It was built by my father back around 1965. What I'm planning on doing is using it as my back up rifle and buying a new one. What I'm looking into is a Rem. 700 BDL S/S 7mag. I bought my son this same gun in 270 cal. for his birthday last year and topped it with a Leupold vx-ll 3x9x50.

My questions are?

(1) After shooting the 6/284 will I be happy with the 7-mag. I plan on working up a 140 gr load and bring down that factory trigger. I know I'm going to miss that 85 gr nozzler.

(2) Scope question I have both the VX-ll 3x9x50 on the 270 and the VXlll 3.5x10x50 on the 6/284. I've shot the VX-lll on the 6/284 for 2 years and only have shot my sons once, I can't remember there being any differance in the 2 scopes at a 100yrd range. Question is the VXlll worth the extra $100.00??