Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Owning a .270 is a dangerous thing.

I fought it for years. I argued with my hunting buddy who has used a .270 for many moons. My own pick was a 7mm/08 and I saw it as being so near to the .270 that I couldn't see the need for the old .270.

I have heard it said before, that it is funny what a few years will do to a man.

I have recently added a Winchester Model 70 in .270 to my safe. It is a 1953 model, and is thoroughly used. I don't mind a bit. I wanted one to hunt with and use.

What I have come to realize is that it is now hard to say why I need a cartridge other than a .270. I still have other rifles in the safe, but for the hunting I do, which is whitetails, at a maximum of 350 yards, the .270 is perfect.

This is the dangerous part. The possibility of a pronghorn hunt? The .270 is great. The possibility of a caribou hunt? No flies on a .270. The possibility of a hunt for Black bear or Elk? 150 grain partitions make us good to go.

Could it be, that I could spend the rest of my days hunting with a .270, and never put it at the "redline" of it's capabilities? Maybe I am getting old, but I will swear that I find comfort in that.

I intend to mount a 6x42 Leupold on my Winchester and go about hunting with it. The thing is, I still want to own other rifles and cartridges, it's just that I can't convince myself that I need them for me. I keep an eye towards buying rifles that suit my son or my wife. There is a good chance that they will be well suited with a good .270 as well.

Thanks for the post because I have been having a dabate a day with my self 270 or 270 wsm. Today the 270 wins out. I have read ballstic charts talked to guys at the range on the internet until I am tired but I think you hit it on the head the 270 can do a lot and now after shooting a couple it is a pleasure to shoot as well.

One thing I dig about the two-sebbny is all the cheap ammo and reloading stuff at gun shows. Makes for a cheap shooter.

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I agree. I traded for 80 rounds of Federal Premium loads at the last gunshow hereabouts. They are loaded with 150 grain partitions, and I will keep them in reserve till I need to shoot something on the large end of the scale.

I would love to trade for a case of 130 grain Fusion loads for my old rifle. Either those or some plain old Remington Core Lokts.

I am beginning to think that I may be too lazy to load for a .270......

Hey, keep that stuff quite! I've had a 270 for 35 years and the wife doesn't need to know that all those others in the safe don't have real needs! Mine has become my bigger than deer gun, I prefer my .257 Roberts and .250 Savage for local whitetails. That doesn't mean it wouldn't get the call for open country mulies though.

;)Yeah I know, my wife smoked 2 elkies on Sat morn with our lil .270 and after she tipped em both over she just asked me why anyone would want anything else.....

I was just quiet (for once) as I felt sort of set up...

Dober

Cartridge selection with today's bullets is pretty much gun gack, avoiding the extremes.

For close to 30 years now, my dad has used but two centerfire rifles. His "bush" rifle for deer is a 1957 M94 carbine 32 Spl he bought new as a 19 year old kid.

Then in the mid-80's I bought a 1957 M70 standard rifle in 270 for him. I mounted up a very early Leupold 6X42 scope (1988 as I recall) with a heavy duplex. With my early, sloppy handloads it would shoot way under an inch with 140 BTSP Hornady's at 3050 fps. Still does. Just try and convince him it's not the perfect field rifle!

And you know? I've played with an obscene number of rifles in the past 30 years. None work any better than that old 270.

Rifle opens here Saturday. With everything else in the safe my old 700 BDL 270 is crying for me take her. I mean I let her kill some groundhogs this summer with 90 grain HPs. Saturday was going to be Mr Weatherby's day but the old girl sings take me Marc take me! What to do?

You bought the wrong one, everyone knows the 280 is soooo much better than the 270, lol. enjoy.

I know, but the store was all out of Pre-64 M70's in 280 Rem.

4 the most part I'd certainly agree. 4 me, it's about the rifle a good bullet and a good bullet in the right place.

And a goodly share of the rest of it is ballistic gack 101...

Sober

no sense messin' 'round with the kids (270, 280, Whelen) when you can just go with the daddy -- 30-06 -- a round that was invented before the word gack.

Been investing in .270s lately myself. No sweeter rifle exists than a Dakota 10 in .270 WCF with a Leupy 2.5-8X32. My thinking is that some people hunt with a bow, a single shot is infinitely more deadly, especially in .270.

I agree that we need to keep it quiet. I definitely don't admit it out loud.

Dober happy birthday glad to see your humor has not gone away with aging.

The late Jack O'Conner was rather fond of the 270 and I value his opinion.

Forget O'Conner, John Jobson was partial to it and so was Bob Lee.

Over the hills and through da woods with this ol' smokepole for 53 years.

Guess I ought to have it rebarreled in 280.

The 270 is a great one gun choice, when I wanted ONE gun I could leave at a friends back east to make traveling to hunt easier the 270 was the best choice..good for Whitetails, good for black bears and you can find ammo anywhere....even the local Kmart stocks core-lokts for $11