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<blockquote data-quote="trebark" data-source="post: 562490" data-attributes="member: 19172"><p>ok - so you want to work on the two rifles you have. My first suggestion would be to consider your caliber choice. When you rebarrel a rifle, you can pretty much choose whatever cartridge you wish. The reason for my suggestion is because ballistically, there's not much difference between a 7mag and a 300rum. My suggestion would be to consider changing the 7mag into something that can kill antelope and deer at fairly longrange, but has less recoil and better barrel life. </p><p> </p><p>For instance, in my three rifles, the 260 will kill deer out to ~900 yards and the 300rum will kill them at ~1500. The 260 is the workhorse and gets most of the shooting jobs. It is extremely accurate and provides very good barrel life.</p><p> </p><p>Because both of your rifles are long actions, you might want to consider rebarreling your 7mag in 280Rem. With a 28" barrel, you can probably get the 168VLD going 2950+. That will easily kill deer/antelope at 1000yards and give a lot more barrel life than the 7mag.</p><p> </p><p>For reloading, read, read, read. Get your hands on some reloading manuals (even older editions) and read their 'how to' pages. Check out youtube and search for reloading videos. Reloading is like a lot of things in life in that there are different ways of accomplishing the same things and often everyone has an opinion as to which way is best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trebark, post: 562490, member: 19172"] ok - so you want to work on the two rifles you have. My first suggestion would be to consider your caliber choice. When you rebarrel a rifle, you can pretty much choose whatever cartridge you wish. The reason for my suggestion is because ballistically, there's not much difference between a 7mag and a 300rum. My suggestion would be to consider changing the 7mag into something that can kill antelope and deer at fairly longrange, but has less recoil and better barrel life. For instance, in my three rifles, the 260 will kill deer out to ~900 yards and the 300rum will kill them at ~1500. The 260 is the workhorse and gets most of the shooting jobs. It is extremely accurate and provides very good barrel life. Because both of your rifles are long actions, you might want to consider rebarreling your 7mag in 280Rem. With a 28" barrel, you can probably get the 168VLD going 2950+. That will easily kill deer/antelope at 1000yards and give a lot more barrel life than the 7mag. For reloading, read, read, read. Get your hands on some reloading manuals (even older editions) and read their 'how to' pages. Check out youtube and search for reloading videos. Reloading is like a lot of things in life in that there are different ways of accomplishing the same things and often everyone has an opinion as to which way is best. [/QUOTE]
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