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Elk season is over, I am sick of looking at wild meat for a while, and I have a couple freezers full of elk and deer meat. It's wintertime, man!

By the way, elk was taken with 270. It was a bull cross-dressing as a cow, which is why the 270 worked.

Humbug!....Elk taken with a 270, a likely story, that's a hot one, Bbbaahahahahahha

270 what a gay wad cartraige !!!

What is a .270? Only thing I know about it is:

1. it is "gay"

2. my Mauser 98 shoots even better as an '06... my bro left it (as a .270) in a wet basement all winter after 22 years of "borrow", then it "quit shooting good"..... . Just can't trust that caliber.

I fixed it.

That reminds me, he's had my TC Hawkin .50 for about 20 years now too...

I have several, am I gay to the 3rd power??

Grandpa Dad and I have used it with reloads without complaint for 80 years

I only use mine to hold at bay the occasional mouse in the cupboard.

If I couldn’t have a magnum, my first choice would be a 270!

I don't hunt with mine anymore, as I've determined that for my hunting, the 270 is too much. But, if I ever draw an elk tag here, it will be the one I use.

Now, having said that, it was the only cartridge I used for whitetails for over 20 years, and if there's anything better, I don't think it's been invented yet. These days I'm on a 6mm and 6.5mm kick, but there ain't one thing wrong with a 6.8mm.

Yup, me too, pre-64 standard rifle and FWT here, with 150 NPT's at 2925 a man can stay in the scope and see impact reactions from the intendeds, have seen buck deer wince with closed eyes when the bullets struck, looked like it might have hurt a little.

That's definitely treading RuPaul territory.

Love my 270 in 695 Tikka. The most accurate gun (1/4" three shot groups) in my safe and when the bullet hits deer there is no run they just fall all over DRT. 130 grain Sierra Pro Hunter traveling at 3168 FPS.

The Very Hammer of Thor!!

hanco said:
If I couldn’t have a magnum, my first choice would be a 270!

How funny. I gave that a passing thought and realized I agree with him to the point that now in my 60s I have sold off every rifle I ever had in "magnum" calibers except 2. My 375H&H and a 300 H&H. I kept the 2 Mausers in the 2 famous H&H calibers because in the case of the 375, I have never found a better all-around "big club" for hunting all over than the 375H&H and I kept the 300 because it's cool. I shoot 200 grain Noslers in the 300 and they fly at the exact same trajectory as my 150 grain 270s do.
In my 1/2 century of gun collecting, hunting and shooting I have moved through several hundred guns and probably 70-80 calibers. I have used many if not most of them for hunting too at one time or another. All worked. Some worked OK and some worked super well.

But now at the time in my life when I realize I am not going to live long enough to play with them all for decades more, I have paired down the collection to only about 20, and of those 20 I only 10 calibers.
Of the rifle I own now the very last 2 I would get rid of in my life are the 270 Winchester and the 375H&H. (The 9.3X62 is a close 2nd to the 375 however. )

If I were forced to own only 1 center fire rifle however I would choose a 30-06 because of the large span of bullets that I can get for it. I am never going back to Africa and I doubt I'll go to Alaska any more either, so that is the reason for my choices.

I am in serious trouble then.

But I did bring a 30-06 home yesterday......as a donor. Now what to build?

Hhhmmm, I'm this close (two fingers a half inch apart) to getting a 270 wby, still mulling it over since I don't really need it.
But I figure it's a weatherby, has magnum in the name, and now I'll maybe go visit the 223 thread in the basement for a while so I'm safe in my social category

The 270 Winchester is Gay. The 270 WSM is Flamboyant. The 270 Weatherby is the Gaylord.

(I own a 270 WSM but it's in the closet)

Dan

What is the .270 Ingwe then?