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<blockquote data-quote="vancewalker007" data-source="post: 1674378" data-attributes="member: 66917"><p>Like many have said, you will gain a lot ballistically by switch to a 280 AI. It's close to 7mm Rem Mag performance with the correct high BC bullets. The other pluses you really only need to swap your barrel and can likely get away with not using a brake. But, your asking for a 1000 yard capability, so if that's a real need then I'd look carefully at the ballistics based on the atmosphere you'll prinmarily be hunting in and make sure you can get enough velocity and energy from a 280 AI to honestly provide a moral quick clean kill with room for error, because at a 1000 yards there's gonna be done error primarily from wind. </p><p></p><p>BTW, opening up the bolt on a 700 and adding a Sako or M16 extractor is a piece of cake, I've had several done it works better than the original. Or, youre gonna pull the barrel anyway causing a re-headspace so you could get a new bolt fitted then. Then you can go to a cartridge that will give you room for error.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancewalker007, post: 1674378, member: 66917"] Like many have said, you will gain a lot ballistically by switch to a 280 AI. It's close to 7mm Rem Mag performance with the correct high BC bullets. The other pluses you really only need to swap your barrel and can likely get away with not using a brake. But, your asking for a 1000 yard capability, so if that's a real need then I'd look carefully at the ballistics based on the atmosphere you'll prinmarily be hunting in and make sure you can get enough velocity and energy from a 280 AI to honestly provide a moral quick clean kill with room for error, because at a 1000 yards there's gonna be done error primarily from wind. BTW, opening up the bolt on a 700 and adding a Sako or M16 extractor is a piece of cake, I've had several done it works better than the original. Or, youre gonna pull the barrel anyway causing a re-headspace so you could get a new bolt fitted then. Then you can go to a cartridge that will give you room for error. [/QUOTE]
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