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Hey Tim happy birthday buddy!
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Thank you,Tom!
So what would be your choice here, the 270Roy or the 264Winny?
(grin)
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Ha ha ha........................! 
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Happy Birthday Tim...Cheers buddy! Cheers indeed!  How are you doing today, Sam? Did you draw for any good hunts this year, by chance??
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Happy birthday Tim!
I'd take the 270 btw.
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264. Cheaper brass; better ammo availability Brass cheaper yes but in a rifle I am going to shoot a hundred times a year makes no difference one way or another. Ammo lets see WW makes ammo for the 264 and I think it is one factory load at that. Federal,Hornady,Norma and Weatherby for the 270 Rem makes ammo for the.264 as well. I'm looking at it from the standpoint of being able to find it in stores. Most well stocked stores that I've been in carry .264, while fewer of them carry .270 roy. Not very scientific, I know, but that's where it's coming from.
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Stores sell ammo? Wow! who knew! Never had to buy any so hence my surprise.
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IMO, if you don't reload, the choice switches from 264 to 270WM. Neither the Winchester or the Rem 140gr are loaded to the cartridge's potential.
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Tim, things are good. Resting up for a 3:30AM trip to Miles City for a few days of work.
Only drew a 2nd choice pronghorn tag but it will be a great Fall regardless, I'm gettin' excited!
How about you?
And back to subject, the right 264 Win would be sweet!
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Good to hear Sam. I wasn't eligible for deer since I got picked and filled my tag last fall(Idaho only lets you draw every other year for deer and elk) I will probably just do the open elk hunt in wolf country again. Arrrgghhhh!!  I wish more folks chambered good rifles in the 264, I would like to try one sometime.
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I wish more folks chambered good rifles in the 264, I would like to try one sometime. Tim, I bet one would make a bad ass wolf rifle!
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I bet, imagine a 125 gr ballistic tip at around 3400fps? Dead wolfie!! The wolves are really getting out of hand around here, Sam. (Ok, sorry, don't want to completely derail this thread) 
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Ain't no thang..
Talk to you later Tim.
(and you better get a 264 and try out the 125 on a wolf one of these days...I sure would like to try it)
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A few years aago I would have said 264. I have one and love it. Shot 7 or 8 whitetails with 120 Xs and IMR 7828. Loaded up some 95 gr Vmaxes , shoots those well also. However, the 270 Roy always intrigued me too. So I bought one a couple of years ago from a campfire member. I haven't shot it much yet. I'll hunt whitetails with it this year. I found 5 boxes of federal 130 partition loads for just over $20 a box. Both of these rifles are win 70 classics. For the original poster, I think you need both, I did
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A win 70 classic in 270Roy?
That would be nice!!
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Happy Birthday Fart.
Oh, 264
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I have never owned a 264, but it sounds like fun. I think one would make a good companion to my 6.5X55.
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More like make it obsolete. Better get you one!
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I've owned both; good cartridges and my 264's all did about 3350 with the 120-125 gr bullets.The 270 Weatherby did about the same with 130 gr bullets. I've been told on here that I was not leaning on either of them hard enough.....maybe so. I don't own either of them now because what possible advantage either has over a magnum capacity 7mm sort of escapes me... 
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The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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