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The .270 is a POS...
And there's a POS .270 boat paddle ruger in a local pawnshop I'd love to buy!
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"It's a pretty fair varmint round." (Elmer Keith)
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Helluva buck right there!!!!!
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THIS IS A QUOTE FROM A MEMBER.."The 270 Winchester is too big for the small stuff and too small for the big stuff...and was therefore designed by Winchester to work well on "nothing"..."
Even though the .270 WinChester is ONE of the best selling of all time,
lET ME SEE YALLS OPINIONS..everyone has one
That was said in jest by a guy who knows a helluva lot more than many of us. The .270 is undoubtedly one of his top picks. I too have been using it for 35 years, from pronghorn to elk, 2 Dall, 1 Stone, Mt. Goat and countless deer. Its so perfect we tend to overlook it and in the process miss out on a stellar performer. My .02......
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Y'all talking about the Po boys 300, I like it , flat shootin and hard hittin round. I don't have near the experience most on here do but what I do have has been with the 270 Winchester. If you do your job it'll do it's job.
JOC was right. The 270 Winchester on a Model 70 is a great combination as is the 30/06 and 375 H&H
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Klik is that a 270 moose?
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Shoot what you like, as long as you shoot it well, and it does the job. Happy shooting. Best answer yet, for any cartridge 
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It was always obvious to me that Bob's line was facetious. Somebody else had one, I'm thinkin' Dober, that said something like a .25-06 is a .270 that took a week off of working out, but can still do the job, or something like that. Since I'm fond of the .25-06, I always thought that was funny.
I've never owned a .270, just like I've never owned a 9mm. Kinda. Last year I got a Glock 357 Sig, which shoots 9mm diameter bullets, but kinda speedy like. I've used .280's and .30-06's and .25-06's and such, but never a .270. I'm starting to think I mebbe ought to get one. Back when I was a teenager, my plan was to have 3 Remington 700 BDL's..a .270 for deer, a 7mm Rem Mag for elk, and a .30-06 to use as a backup for the other two. Didn't work out that way..never does, I guess. I may not have ever had a .270, but I give it the respect it's due, for having been around so long, for being as effective as it is, and for being one of the top 5 American big game cartridges of all time.
And as for Elmer Keith, I never paid much heed to anything that man said. Mostly because a lot of the time he was just plain wrong.
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Nearly a world record TONGUE right there!!!
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Fine for deer sized game. There are better choices for anything bigger...IMO.
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i hope  that person knows what the hell there talking about.i just built one because of that quote
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Fine for deer sized game. There are better choices for anything bigger...IMO. Thought you were going to quit the trolling...............
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THIS IS A QUOTE FROM A MEMBER.."The 270 Winchester is too big for the small stuff and too small for the big stuff...and was therefore designed by Winchester to work well on "nothing"..."
Even though the .270 WinChester is ONE of the best selling of all time,
lET ME SEE YALLS OPINIONS..everyone has one
That was said in jest by a guy who knows a helluva lot more than many of us. The .270 is undoubtedly one of his top picks. I too have been using it for 35 years, from pronghorn to elk, 2 Dall, 1 Stone, Mt. Goat and countless deer. Its so perfect we tend to overlook it and in the process miss out on a stellar performer. My .02...... Perhaps...but I have not yet seen the 270 with 130 Partitions being shot on the tv show Best of the West...seems like use the 7 mag with 168 Bergers for those long range shots... wonder if that poster also uses a big 7???
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Fine for deer sized game. There are better choices for anything bigger...IMO. Thought you were going to quit the trolling............... Stating the facts is trolling?
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Brad had this figured out,which is no surprise because he has a sick sense of humor, too.... Well yeah!
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I have more DRT kills with a .270 than any other cartridge I have used including the mighty .257 Wby. Hardly makes sense that I don't own one right now. I can only attribute to my desire to try different stuff. When it came time to build my son a rifle though the choice was easy... A .270. He has killed enough stuff with it now that you couldn't pry it from his hands with a crowbar. Smart kid...
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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Fine for deer sized game. There are better choices for anything bigger...IMO. Yes. Big deer anyway. (I really don't know about small ones; thinking it might be a bit much. Klik is that a 270 moose? Yes. 140 A-Frames loaded entirely with a little Lee Loader -using the included scoop and all ........the night before. (I was running out of check/sight-in ammo and had no choice. We were at camp already.)
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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3 deer, three bang flops with the .270. In two cases I recovered from the recoil, and see a deer flat on the ground. The deer had hit the ground before I even got back on him in the scope. The 3rd was an exception - he stood straight up on his hind legs, then collapsed in a heap.
I will admit, however, last year I got on a lease with tons of smallish deer, so I am shooting a .30-30 Contender carbine, with the idea of a bit less meat loss, and a bit less noise to spook other deer in the area.
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"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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Tis a good round the .270 Win,,, hunted deer with one for 8-10 years, killed 20-25 deer very well,,,was a little overkill for NC whitetails though, use a 7mm-08 now, it's a shortened .270 as far as performance goes
Location Western NC,
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