270 has been put down since WWII the way I see it as the war heros I hunted with as a kid loved the 06 as it won the war and the 308 was no good as well, in their world. My buddy wanted to borrow a rifle to hunt in upstate NY so I offered him my 270 mountain rifle, "I can't show up there with a 270, my uncles all hunt with 742s in 30'06, give me your .35, that'll work, that shoots 200s." I told him the 270 will drop a deer in it's tracks with a 130 grain handload. Nope my uncles use 220s and they will laugh at me. Years later he did bring the 270 and knocked a deer over backwards and the elders were blown away with the damage when they dressed it. Granted the old timers shot at any angle and the 220s got thru the deer every time and that's all they knew. A 270, no way for them. My mentor ran a landing craft during WWII and was another 30'06 only man. We all hunted with Browning BARs after the 742 and Win 100s proved unreliable and when I bought a 308 BAR I was scorned, thank God it wasn't a 270, lol.
Last edited by Dusty246; 08/22/21.
