I am an ardent 270 basher here and associate the G word with it too, but when a couple friends approached me for suggested first rifle/"all round big game rifles for lower 48" purchases it was 270, 308, and 30-06.
Of course I do give my $.02 on the superiority of the latter, but there can be no denying the 270s effectiveness in that role.
Of course those three cartridges all suffer the same shortcoming in my mind... They make the purchase of any other big game rifle a "pure want" issue, negating "genuine need" as a rationale.
Not that this rifle loony has ever given a rat's rear about need...
