Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Why Has the 270 Winchester Fell Out of Favor?

You always win. Your sticks are classy.

This just pulled in today. This season will be the first time I ever hunt with a 270 Win.

1951, and in very clean shape overall. I could do without the polished extractor and bolt, but that's something to be dealt with some day. Since the stock already has a pad, might change it up for a red or brown Pachmayr.

Nothing looks better on these than the red decelerator. It's just what a hunting rifle should look like.

Might drag one of my 270's out this year. They were out of the rotation last year and other rifles were better suited to the hunting. If I can possibly get out before the season is over I will take it and the Roberts to Oklahoma and hang out in bear country hunting deer.

Nice, clean gun.
That’s not a 1951 stock (1961?)

Maybe it just has to be done then! For whatever reason I really see this thing wearing an M8 or FX-II. 4x.


No kidding? You learned me something, Jack! I didn't know they didn't start using the higher combed stocks until later. The serial number is 202 xxx so its a '51, but may well have a different stock.

The stock has the smaller pattern, machine cut checkering that began in 1960. Rear sight and front sight hood are not correct.

Front sight hood is news to me too! If the rear sight should be the one with the elevator, figured someone did what I have in the past, replace it with the folder because it gets in the way of a scope objective.

Again, thanks for the info, Jack.

Always figured the bullets did the killing. Cartridge is just an explosion containment device.

Most rounds, the deer can’t tell the difference anyway unless you miss.

This thread has legs.

.270 is the cartridge I hunt with the least. Here in Va, if I have a chance to rifle hunt, it's usually my .30-06 or .30-30. I should take the .270s out. People tend to think of them as excelling out on the open lands. There's a lot of value in a rifle that can feed a bullet through an opening in dense stuff, too.

Here's my Portugal-made M70 Super Grade in .270.




And my X-Bolt in .270.

That's a dandy 270 SG 10G's.. Very nice rifle.

Very nice M70!!

Heck yeah thats a beaut

I think in the shooting sports, fads come and go. A few cartridges have stood the test of time, not because of marketing, or a shooting celebrity endorsing them, but strictly because of their merits.the 270 Win is one of those. Others of the same like that come to mind are the 30-06, 7mm Rem Mag, 300 Win Mag and 308 Winchester. Popular, established, efficient within reason, recoil isnt abusive, although an unbraked 300 starts to get there for most people, velocity and energy to way out there. The 270 is great. Jack Oconner just made people aware of that fact.

I was reading about Franz Albreicht Speilberg from Wildboar Fever TV. He says he started with a 30-06, then went to a 300 Win Mag nit now shoots a 270 Win. He says the lighter recoil and velocity matter more than a larger caliber, especially when shooting running hogs on drives. He obviously does quite well with it, and being German royalty, has his choice of whatever he wants.

It really hasn't fallen out of favor. I'm not even a fan of the .270 and I see plenty of new guys buying them, and lot's of .270's in deer camp. As always on this site, there is a couple of guys that get up in arms about a particular item that has worked for many years, and then a few extra fans jump on the bandwagon and suddenly something just isn't good anymore. Reality is, outside of this forum, there are many happy .270 shooters. I'm not one of them, but certainly know many who are.

We are you not happy with it?

I've been using one for 40+ years, no arguments, no issues. I've also used .30/06, 7x57, .243, and still go back to the .270s. They work well.

I lost out on a Ruger M77 in 270 with tang safety I like, stupid auction put it at 850, way too high for it.

So will stick with my BBR from Browning in 270 and my Ruger no 1 in 270.

I think highly of my 1952 Mannlicher-Schonauer rifle in .270