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no i am ignorant and made a stupid statement lol

but yes i do shoot more than 500 rounds

Bob's post was right on, now with that being said, I do not own one and the only one I owned, I turned over pretty quick and never shot game with it. That being said, I do have a lot of respect for the cartridge and what it can do after seeing it in action for many years used by friends.

The reason I do not shoot one is strange but here it goes..growing up I knew/know 2 guys about 20-25 yrs my seniors. They both shot 270's and made them sound like they were wondersticks sent down by the gods themselves. Both these guys had to be the center of any conversation bragging all the way. As a young guy, I decided to h*ll with the 270 after listening to all the bs. To bad as for what I hunt and where it would cover 99% of the situations very well.

Of .270's you mean?

And do you mainly hunt in Ohio? I'd think that most of your shots are fairly close range are they not?

Go Buckeye's... (beat Duke and Ks, who's next?)

Dober

i meant in general, of centerfire rounds.

can't hunt deer with .270 here so mostly yotes and paper.

I'd say the .270 Winchester loaded with a good quality cup & core bullet... or with an excellent hunting bullet like the 130 grain or 150 grain (depending on the game size) Nosler Partition Bullet in the .270's standard factory loaded form comes as close as any round and closer than MOST rounds to being "THE perfect hunting round", yes!

And I don't own one... and have never owned a .270, but I've hunted and killed game with a borrowed pre-'64 Model 70 Winchester in .270 caliber... and the .270 gets the job done without a lot of muss or fuss... and without much recoil as well.

Jus' my 2�...


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

I check in on this thread occasionally just for the novelty and humor factors of seeing " .270" and "perfect hunting round" in the same sentence...

You guyz are a hoot!

Entertainment is our business. .270 shooters are a happy bunch, because we have the perfect hunting round.

A happy bunch, no doubt. With such a boring and efficient round, they just shoot and kill stuff. No anguish about ballistic minutia and endless details loonies constantly obscess about and ponder in the wee hours of the morning. Theirs is a relatively simple life, so they can be happy. They have time to be happy.

I belong to the other crowd, loonies searching in perpetuity for the holy grail of shooting nirvana, the chase becoming the goal, the means overshaddowing the end.

THEY are the normal ones...

DF

DF: Well said and an astute observation... I speak from experience. While there was always a 270 around,I tried many others. A blizzard of builds and factory rifles, dies, bullets and brass by the score....seemed I lived at the loading bench and spent any other spare time in front of a chrongraph,my life reduced to peering through spotting scopes into a world of 1" squares,and ticket tapes spewing velocity numbers.Drop,drift,energy quotients....

Come hunting season, I would lie awake wondering....."7/08 would be sweet!...No,No...7x57...280? 7mag?? 30/06??? How about that Big 30? Which one?

I would hunt.....I killed game with them all...it did not matter. I finally figured out,I counted more than the headstamp.So now,I stuff 270 cases with H4831, R22 or 7828,and Nozzlers and hunt.

I still retain some of the Loony as we never out grow it.....ergo, Mashburn.

I am content.


For now.

We only speak the truth and facts..

Bob,

Maybe you're starting to recover.

Like with the 12 step program, first step is admitting you're a loony...

DF

DF: That I am a card carrying Looney is well known in these parts.....

We all know the 270 rules the roost.

Poobah,

It well may be positional, as looking in at the inmates from the outside, or peeking at the outside through the asylum window...

Maybe they're the normal ones. And the rest of us, seeing it all from inside the Loony Farm lockup.

DF

I have owned a Bunch of guns in a Lot of different medium bore cartridges including 270's. I don't know if I would say the .270win is the Perfect Hunting round, but I will say this:

"I belive that the Best hunting calibers over a broad variety of game lie in the .264 - .284 bore caliber range."

I am a Huge .257 bore fan, and my current go to gun is a 30-06, but when all is said and done the .264-.284 class are some of the finest cartridge available, even more so with the bullets of "Today"...

I've shot my .270 at three deer, and all three died. I gave two of them a second shot, though only one of those was really necessary. so, perfect, nah, I still had to gut and skin those three deer. the .270 didn't do it for me. Still looking for the perfect one.

My favorite rifle is a CDL SF .260, but being I do not currently reload and am not sure when I will start I wanted one gun I could have around that I could find ammo for on the cheap if need be. I ended up getting a new Model 70 FW in .270 and it will shoot the CHEAP Walmart Federal 130gr. into little tiny groups for $15 a box... Is it the perfect hunting round? I dont know as I carry my .260 and my new 708 Montana on most outings, but it's nice to have around.

Yeah and when you're not checking on this thread, you are secretly counting and caressing your .270WCF collection hidden in the back of the closet!

If the 270 Win and 150 NP isn't an all-around NA game combo, I don't know what is.

But some people apparently have bad luck no matter what's in their hands.