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ya know folks.....Boddington didn't actually say anything that warrants 34 pages of comments about the 270

I am curious, why are you so mad and impolite? You could give advice to your friends on a social forum without being nasty. Praying that you get relief from whatever is really bothering you.

True, as far as the .270 goes.

But then he had to go and bring up the dreaded Creedmoor.......

With a .270 and a .30/06 there's nothing you can't kill in NA. The .270 for game up to moose and the .30/06 for game up to and including the big bears.

The .270 came along when there wasn't much choice in hunting cartridges. O'Connor championed it because he hunted extensively with it and got good results. It generated lots of excitement then and it still does. It's a great cartridge. It is also a long action cartridge that still suffers from bullet choice but that doesn't matter too much to the game it kills.

The 6.5 Creedmoor is a great short action cartridge that does everything it's designed for and then some. It has a lot of choices in bullets and is every bit as controversial as the .270 was in 1930 and still is to this day. You can get a lot of different rifles chambered in the 6.5 Creedmoor that are accurate from the factory and find ammo for it just about anywhere. It doesn't mean that it's the only hunting round that will kill game.

I read the article and it's pretty good actually. I don't envy the gun writers having to come up with a decent article that will please their readers on a regular basis. Any article is guaranteed to piss someone off. The big bore boys are still alive and well and the aficionados of each cartridge are going to fight to the death for their baby. I take it for what it is, a decent article on a fine hunting cartridge.

You could just forget the .270 and do it all with the .30-06.

In many ways, the Campfire is perfect example of a pure democracy, where everybody gets a vote, even those who have very little idea of what the election's about....

Nah, the thread would still have been just as long. Many if not most Campfire members just reader the header before responding, bypassing even the original post. They would never have read rainshot's post, even if it had been on the first page!

In fact, some posters still apparently haven't read the original post. If they had, they'd quit bitching about why a thread "about the .270" has so much stuff about the 6.5 Creedmoor.

In many ways, the Campfire is perfect example of a pure democracy, where everybody gets a vote, even those who have very little idea of what the election's about....

If memory serves, Boddington became a believer after killing a large bull elk in New Mexico with the 270?

In an article in the current issue of "American Rifleman," Craig Boddington states that, "In my opinion these three similar 6.5mms (6.5x55, .260 Remington, and 6.5 Creedmoor), despite the magical properties currently attributed to them, do not equal the 96-year-old .270 Winchester as a hunting cartridge."

He then goes on to describe why in four pages. It's a good read.