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Tzone

Just saw this and thank you. Thinking a slightly different direction and throwing a little more cash in the pot. I have a line on a couple of Sakos.

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Tikka would be a great choice!
My first rifle was a pre 65 style Model 70 270win. Killed several elk and more than a dozen deer with it. RL 26 and hornady 145’s do really well.

In my opinion, the 280 Rem is equivalent to the 270 not better. It slows down, as you would expect with heavier than 150g bullets. I think you have to step up to a 7mm Rem Mag or a 300 Win Mag to make a significant jump in performance. I love my 270 Win I handload and get 3000 fps with 150g Partitions, never had an issue killing anything with it in the lower 48. I did just buy a BDL in 7mm Mag cause I gave my 270 to my youngest son ( he wanted it badly). I don't notice the recoil difference but that's probably because I shoot big bores as well. I plan to load 175g A-Frames and see if I can get close to 3000 fps with normal pressures.

I just looked over some data and I think I can get 2900-2950 from the 175 Swifts, Sierra's and Nosler in my Brownell with H1000 or similar. You saying that sorta motivates me to load up a few cases and see what the Garmin says. It's a 1-10 barrel on it, so the lead cored 175's are about as long as I can get to stabilize in the old rifle.

Or more like a 375 H&H.

can't go wrong with a tikka!

I have 2 270 Winchester rifles. Both pre 64 model 70's. However, I will be sending one to a forum member here. I only need 1 270, as I don't shoot these often. For shooting a lot, I prefer the 6.5 Creedmoor. I know JMR probably got a ration of schidt for suggesting the 6.5 CM over the infamous 270 win. I generally agree 100% with what he posts, but probably not this time. If I were looking for a straight up excellent hunting rifle, there would be nothing wrong with picking the 270 winchester. I'd pick that over the 6.5 Creedmoor. Keeping in mind we are talking "hunting" rifles. Also because my favorite thing to hunt is elk!! A 270 loaded with 150gr Nosler partitions can be hell on elk.

The only rifles I'd consider for this would be the Winchester model 70 and Tikka. Those being a pre 64 (fwt or std wt), XTR featherweight, or the Classic CRF. The Tikka would be a stainless T3x Lite. With those rifles you get reliability and excellent accuracy/precision. Both things I demand in a good hunting rifle. As a 3rd choice I'd probably pick a Ruger m77 mk2 or Hawkeye. However, those rifles are generally heavier, and accuracy can be had, but with a lot of work. They are also more clunky feeling than a good Winchester model 70. I would never suggest buying a cheap budget rifle, but if you ran across a Stevens 200 chambered in 270, I'd not scoff at that too much.

As for the rifle I'm sending to a new owner, I will miss that rifle, but it needs to get used. I have a feeling it's a "scary" accurate rifle, but have not even begun to wring it out. The new owner is going to love it. I'll hang on to my featherweight till the grave though..

Pre 65?

Hopefully you get a good one. Some had major ejection issues. Due to a design flaw. Just sayin.

Had a line on 2 L61R and an AIII. An R and the AIII have sold. Looking at the other Saturday

Talking about 270’s gets me all hot and bothered, and since someone mentioned butchered Pre-64’s, this one came to me in pretty bad shape from a family member. Supposedly wouldn’t shoot, and the stock was destroyed. Threw a new scope on it and it looked to be a shooter, so off to the stock maker it went for some love. Shoots most factory ammo under 1” and some stuff it really likes. This with the original factory barrel. If I were looking for another, it would be either another Pre-64 or an old Griffin and Howe. Then again, I’m nostolgic.

That's a beauty!! And the best part about it, it shoots like a pre 64 model 70.. I didn't see where anyone mentioned "butchered pre 64's" though.

The '56 FWT I am hanging on to shoots very well. The butt plate was removed, and someone put a recoil pad on it. The pad was old, so I upgraded it to a red pachmayr. It's also glass bedded. Since, at that point, it turns that stock into a "shooter", not a collector. This is the rifle that I said I'll hang on to for while. Even though I don't like the 270 winchester as much as I do other cartridges. Just how it is, when you grow up with a 30-06 in your hands.



I've only shot that factory Federal blue box ammo out of it, but it shows promise:





Testing new scope and new to me rifle that day, looked pretty promising. I don't think I've shot the rifle since.

With the std wt going to its new home, I may mess with the fwt a little. I'm thinking it's going to be a damn good shooter with proper handloads. Some younger guys don't know what these pre 64's can do, so we have to keep letting them know. Some of my favorite rifles, that are damn hard to beat..

Your right. I think it was another post about refinishing a shiny stocked rifle.

I have a 270 or two that I could let go. Both 700’s.

Hot n bothered 🥴 nice gun👍

If I was in the market for a 270 priced under $1,000, I'd look for a good used CLR.

For a regular production rifle, CLRs are light, well balanced, and accurate. The CLR didn't fail because they were bad rifles, they failed because Colt quit on them before they had been in the market long enough to achieve any sort of market penetration. A lot of people who were disappointed in the CLR seemed to think that they were buying a full ULA for 1/4 the price, when what they were actually getting is a rifle that is probably 4/5 ULA at 1/4 the price.

My 270 has been retired for a number of years now, as I've started using other cartridges. I don't hunt anything larger than whitetails, and chamberings like the 6.5 Creedmoor, the 243, and the 6.5 Grendel will do just fine. However......if I were selected to go on the "hunt of a lifetime" or told that I had to go kill a deer or else, with the "or else" covering whatever comes to the imagination, I'd have more faith in a 270 with a 130 grain Sierra soft point, loaded up with 60 grains of H-4831 than anything else I have ever used on deer for the past 60 years.

Older used Remington 700.

That is the big time easy button.

Easy to find. Affordably priced. Lots of aftermarket products. Never met a gunsmith that couldn’t work on one.

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