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At what point do we realize they all work and there is very miniscule difference between them? I am more likely to rationalize a preference for a specific bullet for its terminal performance.
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Fake News!!
Make 270's Great Again
270 Sexually Harassed a Doe
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lol....I think he was just poking the bear. How many of the various gun articles written all of the time get a post made specifically about them? His did. grin.... If he wants to poke the bear then he should man up and go after the Creedmoor and see what happens. The millennials might get their skinny jeans all up in a knot, lol.
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Lol, blaming poor shooting and poor choices in bullets used in the wrong application on the cartridge. Top it all off with some "feelings" on how the 243 and 280 are better. Nice............ EXACTLY! Hard to believe someone shooting a 270 so poorly though or having that bad of a danged bullet in factory loaded 270’s. Almost harder to find one that doesn’t work these days.
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The rifle is only as good as the hands that are holding it. That said I really like the 270 Winchester
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lol....I think he was just poking the bear. How many of the various gun articles written all of the time get a post made specifically about them? His did. grin.... If he wants to poke the bear then he should man up and go after the Creedmoor and see what happens. The millennials might get their skinny jeans all up in a knot, lol. No doubt that'll be next month's column.....
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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I wish I'd never messed with anything other than my 270. Probably wasted a few dollars over the years chasing unicorns.
It is a unicorn killer for sure.
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It's Towsley-what the heck else would you expect from him?
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I have never owned a .270, but I've seen what they can do.
They seem to work!
I generally use a .308, sometimes an "06, or .45-70, or .30-30, or........
The deer my buddies have shot with a .270 died in exactly the same manner as the ones I've shot with various rifles.
I did notice a slight rainbow coloration around the wound, though.........(grin)
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How does he know where grandpa hit the whitetail? Did it leave a note?
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Lol, blaming poor shooting and poor choices in bullets used in the wrong application on the cartridge. Top it all off with some "feelings" on how the 243 and 280 are better. Nice............ Seems his opinion formed its foundation decades ago when there were a few bullets that worked at 3000 fps MV, and others that didn't. Combine fragile bullets with "unknown" bullet placement, and I guess that can leave a sour taste in an inexperienced hunter's mouth that is difficult to overcome. IME watching bullets hit animals, as long as a good bullet was used for the application and it was put in the right place, with very few exceptions animals have fallen over within 100 yards or less. The headstamp has largely been irrelevant. Putting a good bullet in the right place is the catch, and as long as the shooter isn't trying to content with wind beyond 300 yards or so, and recoil doesn't prevent good marksmanship (which is a sliding scale for most people), headstamp is mostly irrelevant there, too, for hunting purposes. But logic and pragmatism don't seem to sell magazine articles these days...
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Eh...fodder for those who know not and know not that they know not.
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My daughter been killing moose with an inferior obsolete cartridge.. if this gunwriter found out she was using inferior hornady btsp to do it, man his panties be in a big bunch..
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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I had to shoot a small buck three times with 130 CLs to put him down at about 90 yards in the early '90s with my 700 MR, all hits were well placed but showed no expansion and little internal damage.
I merely changed bullets not head stamps. Until I got on here and went rifle loony.
I may put the MR in the rotation this weekend. It's only killed 12-15 big game animals for me since '88.
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What an epic troll job!
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The thing that puzzles me is this. If he hates the 270 as much as he says he does, why in hell does he keep using one? I'm no big fan of the .270 but I do have one and use it on occasion. Everything I've shot with mine has died, usually DRT. What's not to like? Paul B.
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Bryce posts here from time to time.
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Probably where he got the idea for the exposé.....
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Eh...fodder for those who know not and know not that they know not. Prexactly ! ! ! Jerry
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