I happen to agree with Finn Aagaard. "The true general purpose big-game cartridges used in this country come in but two calibers. 30 and 7mm."
Hmmm. I'm not calling you a heretic, but I don't recall St. Finn ever making such a comment.
To the contrary, he had a lot of admiration for the 270 as a general purpose big game round.
Chapter and verse please!
I would have sworn that I’ve read the exact same words from St. Finn. And so it was, in his article on the 338-06 in the January 1986 edition of The American Rifleman:
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Although we have a generous—perhaps superfluous—abundance of rifle cartridges, it is interesting to note that with only a few exceptions, the true general purpose big game cartridges used in this country come in but two calibers, .30 and 7mm. (The 270 Winchester is merely a slightly aberrant 7mm whose bullets are .007” undersized.
