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Nothing wrong with a 270. I have a Win 70 Classic Featherweight with an older 3x9 Leupold compact on it. One load for everything.
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Assuming a 700,they make GREAT donors. Hint………..
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That was a good read - thanks.
I’ve owned and hunted my one and only .270 since the late 60’s. I bought it for all of the reasons mentioned in the article and it’s worked great for all the same reasons. I keep waiting for the manufacture’s to “update” the .270 in the same manner as the .223 or a few .243’s by giving the .270 a faster twist barrel to run the new rage of longer, heavier bullets......
I think it was JB....? Or someone here that said he ran some 170’ish gr bullets out of a 1/10 .270 and that they stabilized ok..... that would be interesting and worth a look.
I feel the advent and use of the laser range finder has most of us rethinking what we use and how....... These days I’m content with my 6.5CM and heavy for caliber long, sleek bullets and dialing my drops.
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I have a Winchester Featherweight .270 Winchester. A better picture of the rifle, it has a Leupold 6x on it.
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I always liked my 270. Before that my 30-06 got everything done. These days I mostly use my 7mm08 for killing Alabama Whitetails. No idea whats next……
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The .270 is just as effective on game today as it was 100 years ago. We simply have more options available today than 100 years ago. A LH KS 270 is my "go to" center fire rifle.
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I always liked my 270. Before that my 30-06 got everything done. These days I mostly use my 7mm08 for killing Alabama Whitetails. No idea whats next…… Have had all and am now relying on a Custom Shop 700 in 7-08 for the local whitetails. If I do any traveling for other critters it will probably go along. Just change bullets depending on critters being hunted. .270, .280, 7-08 all very hard to beat but there are others that can and do just as well.
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I’m a big fan of 270’s…….OH wait, that’s bullet weight! 🤔 Never mind! 😂 memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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I've hunted with a .270 since 1988 with a Steyr Mannlicher Mod M Professional that I bought in the Graf R&G club.
It's positively my favorite open country deer caliber. Finally shot the barrel out a couple years ago, so I replaced it with a Nolser M48 in .270. When this barrels gone I'll probably re-barrel with a fast twist in .270.
Some guys will try to compare it to the 6.5C with it's higher BC bullets, but with similar BC bullets the .270Win still out runs it to close to 800 yds, well beyond the distances that the vast majority of hunters are killing game.
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I’m a big fan of 270’s…….OH wait, that’s bullet weight! 🤔 Never mind! 😂 memtb Going to try 270 grain Hornady bullets in my .375 RUM.
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The .270 Win is hardly ever a bad choice for western big game and plains game hunting. It just flat out works. However, most traditional hunting rounds the same can be said.
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I’ve hunted with the 30-06 and the 280 much more than the 270. It would be hard to pick one between the three. I don’t use factory ammo, so there’s that. I’m thinking the 280, but that’s maybe because my favorite 280 is one very accurate rifle. But there’s no hairs on the 270’s or 30-06’s either.
I suspect that if a guy starts with a very accurate rifle in any rifles chambered in one of these three, it will likely be his/her favorite.
If a guy uses factory ammo then that might make a difference too.
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I’m a big fan of 270’s…….OH wait, that’s bullet weight! 🤔 Never mind! 😂 memtb Going to try 270 grain Hornady bullets in my .375 RUM. Buyer Beware! 😁 I loved the .270 gr. SP’s the older flat base) in my retired H&H…..not so much at the higher velocities from my AI, at least on close range shots. I shot a spike bull elk @ around 80 yards, behind the shoulder hitting only a rib. Yes, the elk promptly died, one large jump before expiration. However, the bullet failed to exit! ☹️ It gave the perfect, classic mushroom, retaining about 65% of it’s original weight. I suspect that, it expanded so rapidly and lost it’s weight very early in it’s path……that penetration suffered! I really expect exists, no demand with my .375’s, especially broadside hits on smallish elk if only rib meat and lungs are encountered! I still love the Hornady’s …..just not at higher velocities from my AI. I hope that they work for you! memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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I wonder if part of the 270's popularity was that for many years after it came out, there was no other cartridge of .277 dia bore and thus the bullets were designed to work at that specific velocity window. In most other cases (pardon the pun) like .257 caliber, the same bullet might be loaded in a 250 Savage or 25-06 which lead to bullet failures and inspired the likes of Nosler to design better bullets. In any case the 270 works and will continue to put meat in the freezer long after we are all gone.
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Count me a fan. With RL26 and 150s at 3000+, short of big bears, there’s little I’d feel unprepared for. Having said, the good old 130g Hornady Spire Points or Partitions never cease to impress me.
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I’m a big fan of 270’s…….OH wait, that’s bullet weight! 🤔 Never mind! 😂 memtb Going to try 270 grain Hornady bullets in my .375 RUM. Buyer Beware! 😁 I loved the .270 gr. SP’s the older flat base) in my retired H&H…..not so much at the higher velocities from my AI, at least on close range shots. I shot a spike bull elk @ around 80 yards, behind the shoulder hitting only a rib. Yes, the elk promptly died, one large jump before expiration. However, the bullet failed to exit! ☹️ It gave the perfect, classic mushroom, retaining about 65% of it’s original weight. I suspect that, it expanded so rapidly and lost it’s weight very early in it’s path……that penetration suffered! I really expect exists, no demand with my .375’s, especially broadside hits on smallish elk if only rib meat and lungs are encountered! I still love the Hornady’s …..just not at higher velocities from my AI. I hope that they work for you! memtb What do you think about 2750-2800 fps with the Hornady's, just right or still too fast?
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Hunted with one for 25 years until I discovered the 708, that with 120nbt I don't think I'll ever go back to the 270.
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Throughout most of my hunting life I've probably used the 30-06 more than anything else. I'd guess the 30-30 and .308 Win.might be tied for second place with the .270 in the number three spot. The 7x57 and .280 Rem. tied for last place mostly because they've been in my stable the shortest amount of time. Time in the field with any particular cartridge more a matter of choice than anything else. Frankly, for whatever shooting and hunting I might do in the future I could close my eyes turn around and use whichever one my hand touched exclusively and never look back.
I have used the .270 on occasion but for one reason or another usually picked something else. When I finally got a chance to do an antelope hunt the .270 was my first choice. The back up rifle was a 7x57. PJ
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