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Question: Have you ever owned and killed anything with a 270?

Why is the 40 yard azz shot not pertinent to the conversation?

Randy if we haven't found something that improves on the 270 Winchester in 89 years of trying, then shame on us.

Generally I think they have but it's funny how it takes a lot of modern technological tweaks to do it; yet when the same things are applied to a 270.....well....then it isn't somehow kosher.

The BC's won't hold up...(how do they know this?)....comparing a 150 gr 270 with a .625 BC to a 140 Berger at .618 isn't fair( Well shidt don't blame me! Tell Berger!)

And a .625 BC is fabulous in 7mm;smart shooters build rifles around it! I shoot a lot of 162 Amax myself these days.

But..... give a 270 bullet a .625 BC and the sniping begins!

NOW, it's only "one bullet" (I have never been able to fit more than one bullet down the bore at one time. If it's fine to concentrate on a 162 Amax in 7mm, why is it not OK to do the same thing with a .625 bullet in a 270?)..... and the BC won't hold up and the twist is too slow(easily remedied with nothing more than a check payable to Krieger, and a 9 twist 277 barrel is yours!).

So, we are expected to look at the 270 the same way, leave it with slower twists, use standard old bullets with modest BC's, while critics stack the deck with other cartridges/bullets that are faster and with higher BC's.... and then say the 270 sucks. Mmmmm....... Something about that is not exactly kosher to my way of thinking.

We'll set aside, for the moment, that the 270 Winchester with shidt bullets has slapped more game into the freezer or put more trophies on the wall than any 6 of many of the pets on here combined.

Talk this stuff up, and suddenly you are "jamming" the 270 down everyone 's throats....not the case. Just pointing out flawed thinking. If you are na�ve enough to have anything on here jammed down your throat, you need to get out and kill more animals with more stuff.

No, I suspect that many folks are simply resistant to change.....get entrenched in beliefs, been doing things a certain way with certain things, and the thought that something as old as the 270 could be brought to modern standards does not resonate. It's just too old to ever be modern....interesting.

Randy if we haven't found something that improves on the 270 Winchester in 89 years of trying, then shame on us.
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..... the thought that something as old as the 270 could be brought to modern standards does not resonate. It's just too old to ever be modern.....

The 260 should have been a really hot seller. but remington didn't support its own with goiod ammo selection or make a good varity of rifles so chambered at once in the begining

Kimber 84 and Steyer Forrester are of the highest quality .260s on the market.