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According to the recoil charts {which i don't hold alot of faith in} there's about 4lbs. more recoil with the 270.
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Limited experience here but I was stunned by it anyway. One day two 270's shooting out of two boxes of 130 gr. bullets. Both averaged a hair over 2700 fps. Two .308's shooting out of two boxes of 150 gr. bullets. Both averaged over 2800 fps. This over the same chronograph with alternating shooters. All of these were factory loads and none were my rifles or bullets. Muzzle blast was a lot worse with the 270's. miles
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If you're going to start reloading, then it should be a choice between the 280 and the 7mm-08. And if that were the choice, I think it just comes down to whether you prefer short actions or long actions. The Kimber Montana in 280AI would be my hands down choice if I wanted a 7mm and was a reloader. The Kimber 84M in 7mm08 wouldn't suck either!! Got one, mine sucks donkey balls.
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They both work. 270 has larger case capacity, hence should get more velocity. Larger bullet selection in 7mm, but...I have yet to hear a 270 shooter, any 270 shooter, complain that the 270 either wasn't powerful enough to get the job done or that he didn't have an adequate 270 bullet available to do the job. 270 130 gr. and 150 gr. partitions and ballistic tips and go huntin'. By the same token, there are a lot of very happy 7mm-08 shooters out there, and a lot of them are saying that they dropped down to a 7mm-08 from an '06 or 270 or something larger than the 7mm-08 and are killing things just as dead and are just as happy. 270 ammo is prolly available more places than 7mm-08 ammo, if you're not a handloader. Recoil is less in a 7mm-08. I zeroed my father's Model 7 in 7mm-08 once and thought the recoil was not very much at all. The correct answer is to get one of each. The 7mm-08 is a lot of fun, and there really is a law that everyone must own (at least) one 270.  (I don't own a 270, mind you, but I do own a 280, which is superior in all regards, , and I entertain myself with that until I eventually get a 270, just so I can experience for myself how superior it is to the anemic 7x57.  )
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Flip a coin, get a good rifle that fits w/good glass, pick one good load/bullet - learn it, use it and keep your knife sharp!
OH - I use a 6.5-08.....have run the other 2 w/equal success.
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Limited experience here but I was stunned by it anyway. One day two 270's shooting out of two boxes of 130 gr. bullets. Both averaged a hair over 2700 fps. Two .308's shooting out of two boxes of 150 gr. bullets. Both averaged over 2800 fps. This over the same chronograph with alternating shooters. All of these were factory loads and none were my rifles or bullets. Muzzle blast was a lot worse with the 270's. miles The solution to this is easy....Federal 270 130 blue box does 3106 from my rifle;3060-3090 from others. Or stick in 61 gr of H4831 or 60.5 of RL 22 with a 130. Problem solved.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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(I don't own a 270, mind you, but I do own a 280, which is superior in all regards, , and I entertain myself with that until I eventually get a 270. I got a '11 Z71 Chevy several months ago. My good buds thought I should have gotten an F-150. My reply was that driving an F-150 would have gone to my head, that I needed to drive the Chevy just to stay humble... Maybe you can just "drive" that ole .280 until you can get a .270, shooting the .280 just to maintain your humility...  Just an idea... DF
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If you're going to start reloading, then it should be a choice between the 280 and the 7mm-08. And if that were the choice, I think it just comes down to whether you prefer short actions or long actions. The Kimber Montana in 280AI would be my hands down choice if I wanted a 7mm and was a reloader. The Kimber 84M in 7mm08 wouldn't suck either!! Got one, mine sucks donkey balls. Too funny! LOL!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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The 7-08 is everything the .270 wisht it were. Light, compact, nimble, and devistatingly effective. The .270 is okay but if JOC hadn't been paid big bucks to tout it, it'd be just another obscure 30-06 derivitive. The 7-08 made it on its own by performance without a "champion" bragging it up.
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If you're going to start reloading, then it should be a choice between the 280 and the 7mm-08. And if that were the choice, I think it just comes down to whether you prefer short actions or long actions. The Kimber Montana in 280AI would be my hands down choice if I wanted a 7mm and was a reloader. The Kimber 84M in 7mm08 wouldn't suck either!! Got one, mine sucks donkey balls. Why??
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The reason they make so many 7mm bullets compared to .277 bullets is that they are still trying to find a 7mm bullet that works...
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The 7-08 is everything the .270 wisht it were. Light, compact, nimble, and devistatingly effective. The .270 is okay but if JOC hadn't been paid big bucks to tout it, it'd be just another obscure 30-06 derivitive. The 7-08 made it on its own by performance without a "champion" bragging it up. The Champion has been gone since 1976....the carping and sniping has continued unabated since then.  It still out sells and out kills(numerically)all the competition,not only here, but internationally as well.They are still choking on its' dust....It's what all the others want to be but never could...an American Classic....like Terry Wieland says,the Huckleberry Finn of American high velocity cartridges.An icon..... Snipe on boys! Ya can't kill it!  7/08.....Geeeshhh 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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The reason they make so many 7mm bullets compared to .277 bullets is that they are still trying to find a 7mm bullet that works... LMAO!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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DF, That's pretty funny, right there!! If I was wanting to 'drive' something to stay humble till I got a 270 I'd be driving a 7x57. They all will get it done. 7x57, 270, 280, '06, 7-08. I am actually thinking about getting a 270 one of these days. Not because I need one, but 'just cuz'. I wouldn't wanna be un-American or nothin'.
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The 7-08 is everything the .270 wisht it were. Light, compact, nimble, and devistatingly effective. The .270 is okay but if JOC hadn't been paid big bucks to tout it, it'd be just another obscure 30-06 derivitive. The 7-08 made it on its own by performance without a "champion" bragging it up. Nonsense!! 'Stillbeeman' is the 7-08's Champion, and a fine one he is, too!!
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The reason they make so many 7mm bullets compared to .277 bullets is that they are still trying to find a 7mm bullet that works... OOOfff! KC
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The Champion has been gone since 1976....the carping and sniping has continued unabated since then. Guilty! 
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Is this a joke? A 7mm08 is 10x the gun a 270 has no good use to me when you are better off with a 30-06.
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This thread was made to provoke this talk. Not that I care. By the way, 25-08 vs 27-08??? What one would be better?
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I am actually thinking about getting a 270 one of these days. Not because I need one, but 'just cuz'. I wouldn't wanna be un-American or nothin'. Now, that's like Chevrolet, motherhood and apple pie... DF
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