When it came time for me to become a rifle shooter, I realized I needed at least one chambering that I needed to despise without any logic or reason. Otherwise, I would not be a real shooter. I already had one that I clung to without hesitation. That was the 30-06, so that was out. 270 WIN was an easy choice. I have spent the last 30-some years hating on the 270 for no good reason.
As to the 25-06, I kind of fell into that one. A buddy was getting too old to hunt and I bought his favorite deer rifle and it just happened to be 25-06. I have been impressed with it. I'm 56, and figured that it was time to start exploring things smaller than 30-somethings. the 25-06 with 117 grain Hornady SPBT's did a nice job on a doe this year. I'm satisfied.
I will say this, if you have an unrealistic and illogical bias against 270 WIN, then you will have a lot of fun taking cheap 270 WIN brass and resizing it to 25-06. There is just something deeply fulfilling knocking the gay out of that brass.
