Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game The Cult of the 270

One of the things I've noticed over the years is that people love to champion their personal pics and love to dog pile those they don't like. Be it cartridges, actions, optics, cars, ponies or whatever.

I've learned that if you sit back and listen you'll find that most of the time you'll find that the CARTRIDGES that they don't like are the ones they've used the least. And or better yet, it is the ones that they've not used any if at all.

I've been incredibly fortunate and blessed to spend a bunch of time in PARADISE (that's Alaska for you Montana boys). I've spent up to 181 1/2 days a year some years out there after it and or taking friends on there first bear hunt, or helping DSMF's figure out that "This ain't New York."

Point being, I've seen a fair amount of game taken each and every year for at least 24 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 2 days and 11 .3 hours . I say this not to brag but to preface my thoughts with the fact that there is a lot of time and some talking out my ass going behind them.

I've seen a lot of game take with 250AI, 30/06/300Mag/35Whelen etc. I've observed one common thing amongst all of them. If directed in a proper manner they all kill very very well. If not directed in a proper manner you may well have a rodeo on your hands, not that I know anything about rodeos.

I know boys that say the 270 is the 06 improved! Well, I've used the 30/06 Improved a boat load (course I have lived on/near the coast most of my life so I DO know about boats, just not rodeos) and have observed first, 2nd, and 3rd hand and I am here to tell you that if I had to hunt the world with the 270 I wouldn't tell anyone. Mark here has killed more game with 270's than Lee24 has seen.


I'd keep going, but this is pretty boring stuff.

Enjoy the day.

Steelhead,

If Alaska is paradise, why do I know so many people here in Montana who moved here after living there for a few years? (Just kidding, though there are a lot of them....)

At one point until very recently I had taken more big game with the .270 than any other cartridge (won't say what passed it). My wife has surely taken more with it than any other round, especially as her "big" rifle.

I have seen one "failure" with the .270, due to a bullet that was not nearly as good as hyped by several gun writers when it came out. I finally figured out that they never shot anything with it before writing about it, one of the big reasons I spent a lot of time, some years ago, devising ways to test bullets before hunting with them. (Oh, and why I start off with smaller "big" game with any new bullet even then.)

Other than that, it has done everything its proponents have claimed. The biggest game I've seen taken with it is moose, and it still holds the record of "quickest deadest" bull moose in my experience. It shoots flat and doesn't kick all that much, and in my experience is very easy to get to shoot accurately. You can get ammo anywhere. What's not to like?

JB

P.S. See Mark's thread 'The Cult of......harvesting game" you'll notice the similarities....grin