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i would

While the .30-06 is arguably more useful over a wider variety of game, I�ve always felt the .270 Win was perhaps the best cartridge for a dedicated deer rifle. It is certainly more than enough for most hunting purposes. Judging by the numbers of elk and moose that fall to a .270 and smaller cartridges every year, it is very hard to appear anything but a fool when arguing that it isn�t adequate for elk.

For some reason, some people compare a .30-06 with heavy bullets to a .270 with light bullets � apples to oranges. Load a 150g A-Frame into a .270 Win and you are good for anything except perhaps certain situations involving big bears. In those situations a .30-06 wouldn�t be my first choice, either.




Just how many good bullets do you need for a cartridge to be viable for hunting?

Here�s just a few that are available for the .270 Win:
110g, 130g Barnes TTSX
130g Swift Scirocco II
130g Hornady GMX
130g, 140g, 150g Swift A-Frame
130g, 140g Nosler AccuBond and Partition
130g, 150g Hornady InterBond
130g, 150g Barnes MRX
130g, 150g North Fork SS
150g, 160g Nosler Partition

And that list doesn�t begin to over the cup-and-core bullets available.


Don�t own a .270 Win myself, but have certainly seen them be effective�

Exotic animals prefer to be shot with exotic calibers. Since elk are not exotic, both the 270 and the 30-06 will service the elk with similar aplomb.

270 vs 30-06? How many times has this been debated in the last 75 years?

Must be one of the great mysteries in the universe.

Kind of like blondes vs brunettes. How many times has that been debated in the last 5,000 years?

Does anybody really think we can ever get to the bottom of these questions?

I will take a brunette with blue eyes. That one turns me on. 270 will never be big enough for some guys. And to others the 06 and bigger calibers aren't needed. I own a 30-06 and a 270. Both shoot awesome little groups. Both drill the ten ring at 250 with a dead on hold. But I dont carry either one. I dont think there is a tried and true perfect caliber for everyone. Thats why there are so many options out there. Personally I dont care which caliber rifle or which make someone brings to my camp as long as they can put the bullet where it belongs. 270, 30-06 they will both do the same job as long as the guy behind it does his. I like the "Theres not a nickles worth of difference between the two." line that was used earlier. I love 25 caliber rifles for some reason and would take mine over a 270 or 30-06 anyday. I can say as long as I do what I have to, that round will get it done. But thats me, opinions vary and thankfully we all get to have one. Shoot straight and let the work begin.

Dude...we are definitely on the same page now. I am so with you on that one.

Let's get off this boring 270 vs 30-06 stuff for a while and talk chicks.

Anybody else in?

Refer to Military Sniping Rifle Thread.....

Ingwe

I would take which ever one I had partition or good solid lead bullet loaded for elk. The difference between them is .277 vs .308 or .o31 which isn't big enough for 99% of the hunters out there to even see much less be able to place better.

In the arguement about whether the 270 is a better elk rifle than a 243 Win, I'd have to go with a 270. Of course if you have to shoot the 90 grain in the 270 so it doesn't ruin your makeup I'll take the 105 grain 243. Cheers!

Wayne

270 works ok on elk ,the guy i hunt with uses 243or a 708 308
280 300wsm just know your gun and shoot often at diff ranges
and use a good bullet, watch best of the west on ODC
they swear by a 6.5x284 at 800yds just have to know where your bullet will go

I've got no use for a 270. If I wanted a smaller caliber than the 30-06 I'd use a 25-06 for antelope and deer. Other wise my hunting rifles start at 30-06.

I love my .270s. If I feel I need something bigger I go to the .338WM. So, I've taken a .338 on a brown bear hunt and passed on a big grizzly with my .270

I'm probably not going to hunt brown bear again and I ca't ever see affording a polar bear hunt, so I think my .270 will do me for the rest of my days...

I bought a 270 WSM last year and have bagged pronghorn and whitetail with it.

I would take it for Elk anyday. shot placement is more important than anything.

There was a famous outdoor writer, his name was like O'Conner or something like that, I think he liked the 270........

I would shoot anything in North America with the 270 except maybe moose and Grizzly bear. If I were planning one of those hunts, I might want something bigger.

Although he allegedly confessed, in his latter days, that he actually liked the 280 better.

Anyway, these arguments are silly to begin with. Everyone knows that Man Rules of Riflery require us to possess, at minimum, rifles chambered for half a dozen different cartridges per species hunted in order to ensure that we never... ever... run out of material to fuel caliber/cartridge/rifle arguments.

Didn't know the .270 met the minimum cartridge size for Elk. You sure one can legally use them?

Anyway, the stuff you learn here is never ending, so I guess I'm wrong again.

Bob: Scotch on an Elk hunt? That's just not right. I mean if the horses got into that chit, they would die and then what would one do?

If I could get both I wouldn't. Only the rock or sharp stick, I would give it some thought.

Splitting atoms is all we are doing here.....

I'd just grab my .280 and go hunting or maybe even my new 7SAUM

CLB

The specifics of the rifle might be the way I'd choose. I'd gladly take the 270 over the '06 even if the 270 was a M700...if the '06 was a Garand. But if the rifles were otherwise essentially identical, then I'd go with the '06.

I suppose it really only matters which one you shoot more accurately. I have both and have used both on elk and I can't tell the difference. I prefer the 30-06 simply because I like the rifle it is chambered in better than my rifle chambered in 270.

I own both rifles and I'd say the 30-06. my 270 is a savage 110 and my 30-06 is a JC Higgins FN Mauser and the old sears rifle just feels better