I have a Finn Aagaard quote on a "post it" note in my reloading notebook. "...the true general purpose big-game cartridges used in this country come in but two calibers, 30 and 7mm (the .270 Win., is merely a slightly aberrant 7mm whose bullets are .007 under size.)
I took a .270 in on a trade once, but did not put it in a gun safe with other guns because of what Ingwe and others have said and I thought it could be contagious. Peddled it within a few days.
For hair splitters out there... So-called 7mm bullets are .284", which converts to 7.2 mm. A true 7mm bullet mikes .276", so the "standard" 7mm bullet is over-size aberrant at 7.2mm.
