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The 270 is a hunters cartridge just like the 30-06. Looneys overthink everything though and quickly get bored with both.
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never have, don't see that ever changing.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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The only rifle I have left in the safe for myself is a 270 Win....works
Rob
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I only own four CF rifles. A '85 45-70, a 223, a bolt 30-30 and a. 270. The 270 is the one that could do everything that all of them combined can do.
I didn't really say all that stuff......Confucius
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Campfire Kahuna
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Lemme see, after 25 pages and over 400 posts, we've discovered the .270 Winchester is still "liked" by a lot of hunters. What a surprise. Does any suppose this might be why every major hunting rifle manufacturer on earth chambers the .270?
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I was always cold to the 270 for no particular reason. Just never interested me.
Honestly though, it has to be a near perfect chambering for big game hunting. IMO.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Ray
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/UGkFmyz.jpg) I waited 62 years to get my first one. A made-in-Sheridan Wyoming Mark V. Don’t really know why I picked a .270, just wanted it to be a classic cartridge.
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270 trim brass...
280 Ackley - no trim brass - kill fast, good smoke stick, strike like lighting from mountain top....
Good medicine ...
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I’m no sheep hunting expert, last year on my TMA sheep hunt I didn’t hesitate when I chose the 270 Winchester in a model 70
stainless classic. When one thinks of sheep hunting, you think of Jack O’Connor and a model 70 in a 270 Winchester!
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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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Lemme see, after 25 pages and over 400 posts, we've discovered the .270 Winchester is still "liked" by a lot of hunters. What a surprise.
Does any suppose this might be why every major hunting rifle manufacturer on earth chambers the .270? Yeah, makes me wonder why they'd chamber a GAY cartridge !   Kinda puts things in perspective don't it !!  The 270 would be one of the LAST rifle/cartridges I'd be without ! ! Jerry
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Speed is Trajectory's Friend !!
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Uh Oh...I just bought another .270 Win! A 24" bbl Mark X "Cavalier". It even as an "open wrist" I admire so much, Hot Dog! 
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Geez, a Sako IV stainless 270 just joined the family here....
Imagine your grave on a windy winter night. You've been dead for 70 years.
It's been 50 since a visitor last paused at your tombstone.....
Now explain why you're in a pissy mood today.
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I’m taking 270’s the second weekend of rifle season
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I have three in the safe and they are the workhorsest. Pre '64 Fwt. Sightless, Barrett FC and my old Montana 84L is back!
Last edited by bigwhoop; 10/26/19.
My home is the "sanctuary residence" for my firearms.
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Just sold one a couple weeks ago (Tikka) and bought a new one Friday (Bergara Ridge). Taking a break from trimming, uniforming primers and chamfering the 400 cases I ordered for it. Hoping it shoots as well as the one I have in 300WM.
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Campfire Outfitter
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After reading all the posts on the .270...I happen to come across my copy of "Petersens Hunting" dated February 1978 with an article by Jack O'Conner titled..."The 270....Americas Beltless Magnum," What Jack wrote in 1978 still holds true today.
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In East Texas back in the 60's-early 70s, anything over a 30-30 or 6mm Remington was "considered to be a magnum or magnum Like". I only remember one .270 and one .243 in camp. We had a lot of older gents back then too, remember, who had survived the Great Depression. They would get apoplectic about bloodshot/ruined meat! They considered the .22LR, .22 Magnum , 22 Hornet "about right! ha I miss those old guys...:) Oh yeah, the .270 guy was told "flat out"...."that's too fast for the woods and tears up too much meat". They were also "highly opinionated".
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I have been shooting one since 1993. I use others, but the 270 is the one I have shot game the most with. Also my son uses a 270. I wonder where he got that from
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I like the cartridge a good amount.
Anyone try the new 130gr Cutting Edge Bullets in one? I see that the b.c on those is near .540 G1. This would make the 270 win fight wind deflection just like a 6.5mm cartridge.
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