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<blockquote data-quote="DJ Fergus" data-source="post: 1832141" data-attributes="member: 93895"><p>I like the two cartridges mentioned above. Im highly biased towards 7mm also. If you are going to buy a factory rifle, your choices narrow down. I think all of the 7mm fans have been long awaiting a mainstream 7mm cartridge based and designed around 180-195gr bullets and chambered in factory rifles. 28 nosler brass is very expressive. 7mm rem mag brass is very cheap but most factory twisted 7mm rm barrels are of marginal stability with >180s. As I said the Sherman series & blaser 7mm cartridges are very attractive. I don't have any useful advice as to where you would pick one of those up off of the shelf. Nosler makes 280 ai brass and I believe it is quite a bit cheaper than 28N. Several rifle manufactures are chambering in 280 ai but not ideally for 195s. 180s would probably be max in most 280ai rifles. If you do some research, it seems that the stepping up from 180 to 195 may not always be beneficial. I wish I could give you a straight up easy answer for your question. If you were going with a custom built rifle, answering would be a bit easier but I do understand your situation as probably no one ever started out with a custom built rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DJ Fergus, post: 1832141, member: 93895"] I like the two cartridges mentioned above. Im highly biased towards 7mm also. If you are going to buy a factory rifle, your choices narrow down. I think all of the 7mm fans have been long awaiting a mainstream 7mm cartridge based and designed around 180-195gr bullets and chambered in factory rifles. 28 nosler brass is very expressive. 7mm rem mag brass is very cheap but most factory twisted 7mm rm barrels are of marginal stability with >180s. As I said the Sherman series & blaser 7mm cartridges are very attractive. I don't have any useful advice as to where you would pick one of those up off of the shelf. Nosler makes 280 ai brass and I believe it is quite a bit cheaper than 28N. Several rifle manufactures are chambering in 280 ai but not ideally for 195s. 180s would probably be max in most 280ai rifles. If you do some research, it seems that the stepping up from 180 to 195 may not always be beneficial. I wish I could give you a straight up easy answer for your question. If you were going with a custom built rifle, answering would be a bit easier but I do understand your situation as probably no one ever started out with a custom built rifle. [/QUOTE]
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