Hanco: For an "all around" GREAT Deer Hunting cartridge it would be VERY hard, if not impossible, to improve upon or exceed the 270 Winchester! I think I have about tried em all" and keep going back to the mild mannered, accurate, reliable, lethal and CLASSY 270 Winchester. Been using them for over half a century now from the rain forests for Blacktails to the thickets and dense woods for Whitetails to the wide open country for Mule Deer - the 270 Winchester has always performed exceptionally well. Long live the 270 Winchester! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
I suspect that if every bit of information available was loaded into a computer, and that computer was asked to pick the perfect deer cartridge, the winner would be the 270 Winchester. I have killed deer from 15 to 400 yards with one, and although I retired mine and gone on to other cartridges, I have yet to find anything better.
The 270 would be damn hard to beat, I have 3plus a 270 WSM. I like the 130 grain Bear Claws in them.
