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Steve, you seem to have forgotten the 160 gr. Dominion Kling Kor. They worked just fine. I live in southern Ontario and have known .270 users around here for years. Your being confined to army camps must have affected your exposure to the cartridge.
Jim I wish I could have used those but I have only been using the 270 Win the last 4 years or so. I'm not sure why whoever has the rights to all the Dominion/Imperial brand doesn't offer those bullets again. I have two great loads though using the same components including the exact same powder charge, the only change is one uses the 150 gr Ballistic Tip and the other the 160 gr Partition. Have shot game with both and am pleased with how each performs.
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Comparing cartridges is rarely a good thing because of the large area in which the membership here is located. Just think, many regions of North America and the world come to this forum. The animals that are hunted, the topography and cartridge history/popularity are vastly different. Good point. Never having hunted out of the continental US, I was thinking of the game animals and varmints found there when making my statement. I also probably should have added that most calibers are used for a variety of game animals and varmints, and do a good job. When you get right down to it, a lot of these comparisons are just 'splitting hairs'.
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The 270 stands on its own, not necessary to make case for it.
No, this is "groundbreaking."
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Comparing cartridges is rarely a good thing because of the large area in which the membership here is located. Just think, many regions of North America and the world come to this forum. The animals that are hunted, the topography and cartridge history/popularity are vastly different. Good point. Never having hunted out of the continental US, I was thinking of the game animals and varmints found there when making my statement. I also probably should have added that most calibers are used for a variety of game animals and varmints, and do a good job. When you get right down to it, a lot of these comparisons are just 'splitting hairs'. Yep. But it passes the time in the evening. 
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So we're agreed then. Some ale, and trade off your guns for some quality 303s. Quality would be 1895s, or No4 Lee Enfields made by Long Branch Arsenal. I would also accept a No. 1, and selected drillings. The rest are "also rans". 
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How could anyone say a 270 is controversial? It’s been around since 1925 and is the most popular big game hunting round in history that didn’t start as a military round.
I’d hunt ANY animal in NA with a 270 and just about anything in Africa.
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Seems like there was a fairly famous writer who killed. Schidt ton of game animals of all sorts with a 270 and 140 partitions
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It makes a good argument for itself and my main Bighorn/ Elk chambering. I send a 150 Nosler at 3000 fps plus out of a 22" tube in a light compact mountain rifle. It is smooth chambering and I can extract it with my baby finger.
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That’s moving. I can get 3k out of a 24 inch tube...what’s your powder?
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Quak-, reloaded 26. There was a good Muledeer/ JB thread here that put me on to it
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Quak-, reloaded 26. There was a good Muledeer/ JB thread here that put me on to it Got a couple of pounds of that, but may never try it in my .270. I had good luck with 7828 and 150gr Sierras I bought for practice and maybe deer, but my goto powder is the discontinued W780 with 160 NPs. Prints just below the 150s and has killed several deer very much dead from the pre64 I gave my son. The 26 has been good with 100gr .243 bullets. Waiting for 6mm Creed data. C'mon Nosler and Alliant; get the lead out!
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I started hunting big game in Montana in the late 1960's, when just about every elk hunter firmly believed the .30-06 with 180's was the absolute minimum. This was due to, of course, cup-and-core bullets. Nosler Partitions (the only "premium" back then) weren't available in factory ammunition, except Weatherby ammo.
Started handloading Nosler Partitions in the mid-1970's, and Barnes X's around 1990. Neither my wife Eileen or I ever had any trouble killing big game larger than deer with the .270 using either. In fact, in 1989 Eileen drew a bull moose tag here in Montana. We found the bull she wanted on opening morning, quartering away at around 125 yards. She aimed at the far shoulder and pulled the trigger. The bull too a step and a half an folded, dead, still the quickest kill I've seen on ay moose with a pure lung shot. The bullet ended up just ahead of the joint of the far shoulder, under the hide, at least 30" of penetration.
Have killed, and seen killed a bunch of other big game taken with the .270. It works very well, any in my opinion anybody who still thinks the .270 ain't enough for game larger than deer is....well, I won't say it. What he said!
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I think John meant a 303 British. LR hunting with a pointy 180 gr. bullet. shorter ranges (to 200 yd) any 215 gr. RN bullet. 215s were premium. That is, bullets of higher than usual quality.  And if you can't be with the gun you love, love the gun you're with...with apologies to Stephen Stills.
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So on this forum the tried and true ol' .270 lives on. Makes me love this forum even more.
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Count me as a big fan of the 270 Winchester!
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I'd like to get AOC's opinion of the .270 .....
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I like the 270 Win. At this time, I do not have one. I have been thinking of a Fieldcraft in a 270 Win. That would work for me.
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My wife seems to like hers
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