What are "normal" hunting ranges? sub 300 yards? These days, maybe sub 500 yards? I see only one mention of distance in the article, that being 1000 yards, and even that mention was ambiguous.
Within those ranges the poor B/C of currently produced .277 bullets are pretty much meaningless. It's when the ranges get stretched out to 5, 6, 7, 800 plus yards that high B/C 6.5mm bullets start making a night and day difference. I'd have to agree with Boddington, assuming he's referring to shots in the sub 400-500ish yard range. I really like my pre-war .270 Win for timber hunts where I am 100% expecting a relatively close shot. It's been great on elk with the 150 speer hot cor. I've also killed antelope and mule deer with that combo, and with borrowed .270s have killed red stag, fallow, black buck, wild boar and axis deer with wally world special 130 grain bullets (power points, I believe). No issues whatsoever with the kill'n.
