Charles, I had a couple of mountain rifles by Remington over the years. All would shoot around MOA or better after bedding and free floating the barrel. If you do still rebarrel, the 280 or 280 AI are both great choices.

The draw for me was the inherent accuracy, low recoil and cheaper to reload. I have been around 5 of them now (2 AR’s, and 3 bolt guns all by different manufacturers) and all are sub MOA with factory ammo.

These 2 were in the neighbors sheep yesterday right before dark. One at 150 and the other at 200 yards so not much of a stretch. Definite whack as the bullet hits always makes me smile. Both folded immediately. There was a third one that I stuck around for that would never come back out enough to get a clean shot. This was shot with the factory 108’s and minimal damage.

mine is an AR with 22" saturn barrel, have taken 3 deer, a fall gobbler and various smaller vermin. And have ran it out to 880 yards banging steel. shots 8,9, and 10 during break-in shooting 103 ELDX factory loads.

Was actually worse back in the day when everyone and there mom had a uncle with a lathe love talking to some of the older gun nuts .

" O yeah we took a old mauser we bought from the hardware store for $20 and spent the evening rechambering it to a 6.5-06 with a 45 degree shoulder"