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Was at my gun club yesterday, they had a hardly fired, like new 700 BDL, .270 on consignment. Funny, back where I started in 1969. I bought it for $575.

Gun was made in 1995, so it has old style (the good one) trigger set at an atrocious 5lbs. I cleaned it up, barrel is pristine. Looks brand new. I'm shooting it today, If it shows accuracy promise, I will leave it alone and use it as a back up or loaner rifle.

OR, I'll buy a #3 Bartlien, Trigger, bed it and have a new rifle. The wood stock is very pretty except for the shiny poly finish, so I can live with it.

QUESTION, with the long action and .270 bolt face, caliber choices are many. What should I get>>>???

1. leave it .270, faster twist
2. 6.5 PRC
3. .22 Creedmoor
4. 6,5-284
5. 7mm-08
6. ???????

I rebarreled my 270 to a 30-06 and couldn't be happier.

My opinion would be that if it shoots good, leave it alone. If I were to rebarrel, I would go with a 6.5x55. You are fixin to swamped with favorite caliber suggestions.
Phil

6.5/270 if you have to have a new barrel.

If it shot good, looked good, I'd probably leave it as is.

Those old Walker triggers can be tuned to perfection. You can replace it, but you don't have to.

Just don't broadcast on the Fire that you like, shoot, or have a .270...

Lest your manhood be questioned...

Those stories of .270 bullets bouncing off are way over stated.

DF

I'd shoot it and bed it if necessary. Lots of good 270 bullets out there today. The 110TTSX can be driven really fast and new powders like RL26 can move the 140-150gr stuff at impressive speeds.

Yep,I bet it shoots. I would clean it good with a good copper and carbon solvent,and shoot it. I bet it will be easy to find a under MOA load.

Adjust trigger, bed action, free float barrel. More than likely you'll have a sub-moa rifle in a very practical cartridge.

Bald Hunter, Jpro is dead nuts.

110g tipped tripple shock with Win 760 shoots very small groups around 3400 fps, same bullet with R#17 is 3350, very small groups. Deer do not stop this bullet. Very flat shooting at 300 yards!

Bed the Rifle, freefloat the barrel, tune the trigger, done!

150g Nosler long range accubond with a hot load of Reloader 26 and a federal 210 is 3100-3150.

I have the exact same gun as you just bought!

I like light monos, magnum speeds in a conventional round. Have been shooting 130's in my '06's. They really smack WT deer and hogs. And, 3,100 fps doesn't hurt.

Keith is giving you some sound advice.

You can make a .270 do about anything you want with the latest powders and bullets. It's a different world, not your grandfathers deer rifle.

DF

If you're going to rebarrel it, the long action 700 is made for the 280 or 280AI.

85s at 3800+ turn the 270 into a 220 Swift on steroids. 110 ttsxs at 3400 make for a flat shooting all around load. RE26 and heavies like the 145 eldx or even the 170 Berger (wouldn't be a bit surprised if your rifle will spin them) will stretch its legs. Standard 130/140/150s on top of 4831 for a no nonsense, time tested load. All with the ability to shoot cheap factory ammo that is designed for the cartridge's velocity window, that can be found in about any backwater town. The 270 is an absolutely superb round.

Also, most of your choices for other rounds really won't work very well with the action. Action is too long to be ideal, or wrong bolt face. And the 6.5-284 won't add anything practical over what you have.

And won't feed as well without some work.

DF

I’d leave it as a 270, impossible to improve upon perfection....

See how it shoots first. Take some 0000 steel wool and pumice to the finish then wax it but only buff it lightly.

The 270 Win. is perfection. I like the 270 WSM but it is not a huge step up from the Win. Some loads will do almost 250 fps faster while others are only about 50 fps faster. Add a longer barrel and the gap diminishes even more. A fast twist barrel would be interesting to shoot the 170 & 180 bullets. A longer barrel makes the Winchester a sort of belt less magnum. If I wanted more I would step up to the 270 Weatherby in a 1 - 7 twist barrel at about 26 inches.

The Rem. stock can be re-done nicely. I would see if RJ Renner would be willing to turn it into a proper looking stalking rifle with an antique finish. If the barrel was good I would stop there. I might have a Smith do the trigger as I botched the last trigger job from that era due to soft metal. The trigger Tech is a good hunting trigger as you can pour sand in it and it will still function, not so for a Jewell.

If you really wanted to be a looney you could do a 270 Screedmoor, but then you would have to hi jack every post to tell everyone how great it is.

sell it to me I will build a 6.5x284 norma

The 270 is optimal for 99%+ of us for 99%+ of the Big Game we hunt...

Amen, they just keep working, almost a 100 years later.

I have a long barreled .270 on a 700 action.. The .25-06 on the same style has long been one of my three favorite calibers.. Lately I find the ,270 edging out my .25 of the middle caliber in my favorite three.. One thing I do plan to do is have some Accubonds loaded for elk hunting.. Not sure it will ever replace my old .300 as an elk round, but it is a great backup rifle..
For most of my hunting the.270 is fine, but I always take two rifles when I load the truck and more and more the .270 is in the truck..

Well yes,but 280 gets you to 99.5% and 280 Ackley will make 99.9 easily.