Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Boddington on the .270 Winchester

Looked in the "Image Gallery" and got my answer.

I've got absolutely nothing of value to add to this thread, so I guess I'll just throw a picture up of my Great Grandfather's Prewar Model 70 in .270 Win with a small Montana mule deer buck I took with it a few years ago, using the 150 hot-cor. Hit at about 60 or so yards angling hard away, it exited through the neck, and he didn't go anywhere but straight down.

What scope is mounted on it?

And that has a "cool" factor of 10!

I guess while I am at it: a free range Argentine stag killed with cheap 130 grain factory ammo and a borrowed .270 Win. Solid, tight behind the shoulder broadside hit at about the same distance as the deer above.
He stumbled about 20-30 yards before falling over, just like he would of if hit the same with any other chambering with a decent bullet.
No fuss.
No drama.

Solid performance.

T-man, That is way cool. All of my progenitors passed long before I was born. I would trade every rifle I own to have one from a grandparent or g. grandparent...

Lyman Permacenter 4X.

I took the Weaver K2.5 off that he originally used, as it just didn't give me the warm and fuzzy since the post had to be moved so far to the side to get the rifle sighted in....and those scopes don't keep the post and crosshair in the center of the view box.
I guess back in the day scope mount holes weren't as precisely aligned as they are now...

Inman, was that Argentine hunt a good one? I'm really wanting to kill a stag, but not travel all the way to NZ for the high fenced model.

Thanks...to be honest, I never met the man myself. Mom was knocked up with me when he died in 1979.

I've got a few of his rifles, but that .270 is a favorite.

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Tin, can/would you take a new pic of that rifle? I'd like to see a better view of it.
THNX

Jerry

I had a good time there, but there were a few quirks about the place I wasn't big on. Honestly though, they were all small things in the long run.

The place I hunted had a high fence option, to which I did not partake as there were plenty of "wild" stags running around the area. Just like with most anything else, the free range stags are generally going to be smaller than some of their counterparts inside the fence. I hunted in the LaPampa, but if I were to do it again I'd look for a more mountainous area to hunt them in. Maybe Cordoba?

T,I have an old Weaver 4x that has the same thing,the post is not in the center of the view box. It seems to hit the target where it is aiming though.

I keep that rifle at my mom's house in the Bitterroot so I can't take anymore pictures of it right now. Sorry about that.

It looks just like any other pre-war Mod 70 though.

Understand, Thanks anyway.

Jerry

It held zero just fine, but I couldn't warm up to the post being so far to the side when sighted in.

I understand,it is annoying,but I can get over it.

This is the ONLY pic I could find among my paper photos.
Here's a PIC of the pic. I tried several diff attempts.

That was taken on a W W throw away, cardboard camera !


12/'83



I have NEW pix from the pard who now OWNS the rifle.

Jerry

I called my X hunting pard. He lives in S E La.
He would NOT sell the rifle back to me but he took these pix and text them to me.







The ONLY reason I moved it was, it IS the heaviest rifle I've owned. It's heavier than my 700 BDL 8 mm RM today.




Jerry

Two more comments:

I had forgotten about shooting the yote in NECK ! I remember that day well. I had left my best friend's house on my way home. I'm still in the country - dirt road and all. This coyote was in an open field. I got out of the road into the field and shot him before he took off.
I went back to my friend's house for the pic.


NOTICE the bolt handle KNOB. I shot that rifle enuff to wear the blueing off. I didn't remember that either.

Jerry

The .270, .280, 6.5 whatever are all great cartridges, in fact they are almost as good as the 30-06.

280, 260, 7RM, and 30-06 had their chances, but the old skool hustler won.....