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Originally Posted by BLRNut
Thanks Campfirers:

Imput was great and wife and I enjoyed the read.

Choice made, ordered, and received. (Great price and service from Hunters Outlet, Inc. in MN0 via Gun Brokers.)

The 25-06 won out.

Gun is a beauty, stainless, laminate stock, 24 in. barrel, and left handed.

Will mount scope as soon as it arives.

Will give next years report of harvest.

Thanks all who replied.



Well.......classifieds are free......when you come to your senses and decide to trade into a .270



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Enjoy your new rifle, 25-06 is a fine choice!!!

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Shooting Hornady through a lefty Browning .25-06. The buck in my avatar didn't like it at all. Have shot a lot pigs and coyotes as well with the same result. No need for anything else.

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Originally Posted by M1Garand
[quote=DELGUE]Frankly, I think it's a cult thing. The .270 is so ingrained with the O'Connor cult, and has been ballyhoo'ed for so long, that there is no range of emotions concerning the .270 and O'Connor...you either hate both or you love both.


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Originally Posted by M1Garand
[quote=DELGUE]Frankly, I think it's a cult thing. The .270 is so ingrained with the O'Connor cult, and has been ballyhoo'ed for so long, that there is no range of emotions concerning the .270 and O'Connor...you either hate both or you love both.


If the 270 didn't work it would be long gone by now despite JOC wink

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If JOC had shot the 7x57 enough instead of handing it off to Eleanor, you'd have never heard of the .270.... grin


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Yea, but in the never ending search for flatter trajectory and more power, lots of people back then turned from the 7X57 to the 25/20.

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Originally Posted by ingwe
If JOC had shot the 7x57 enough instead of handing it off to Eleanor, you'd have never heard of the .270.... grin

Don't tell Bob. laugh

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Ohhhhhh, after reading all this; here goes. 25-06!
But wait! Damn it! I like the .270 Win too! CRAP!!!!
What do I have to do now!? Buy a 7-08? OHHHH' I'm getting a headache. This is bad, real bad!

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Originally Posted by ingwe
If JOC had shot the 7x57 enough instead of handing it off to Eleanor, you'd have never heard of the .270.... grin


Ingwe: That Russ Leonard 7x57 was not his first....he had one stocked by (IIRC) Adolph Minar....used it and a 30/06 for most of his hunting for a few years before he got his second 270 to replace the original M54 he had.He really seems to have liked the 7x57,30/06,and 270 equally well.... smile

If either of these two subject cartridges is a "cult" cartridge,it's the 25/06;on here.

In travel, I see lots of 270's in use in camps here and out west,up north....I see few 25/06's....it's a good cartridge,but I see few people carrying one.In any rationale evaluation, it is not the BG cartridge the 270 has proven itself to be....worldwide.




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BobinNH; you're right of course about the 270. I'm back to reality now. I do like the 25-06, but you see a lot more 270's in camps.

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Originally Posted by rifletom
BobinNH; you're right of course about the 270. I'm back to reality now. I do like the 25-06, but you see a lot more 270's in camps.



Sadddddd.....soooooooooooo saddddd....

Everyone is delusional....


Except me! laugh


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Originally Posted by ingwe
If JOC had shot the 7x57 enough instead of handing it off to Eleanor, you'd have never heard of the .270.... grin

Or maybe he just recognized the 7x57 as a woman's gun, put his man card back in his wallet and moved on to bigger and better things. laugh


Whatever a 7x57 can do a 270 can do better.

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I think the opposite. When a boys grows into man, he starts to rationalize his ideas. The 7mm Mauser is an example of refined taste and acceptance for the phrase, "enough is enough".

I used my first 7x57 in a Winchester Ingwe 70 when released about '82 or so. I then went into magnum fever with gusto, until about the mid 90's I started to think about all the cartridges I had used and how they performed overall, rather than in single incidences, which is a failure of a phobia.

The cartridges that hit the top of my list were the .30/06, which I was still using and the 7x57 for which a vacancy could be filled when an old English Gentleman who was a retired Mining engineer who worked in 22 countries, but mostly in Africa.

He had a few rifles to sell and I bought 2 Rigby's off him, a double and the .275 Rigby which I still have, although I grew week a few months back and offered it for sale.

The 7mm Mauser may not make you feel too hairy chested when in over confident and vocal company, but you will never hang your head in shame when using it simply because it works and will continue to work on any game as long as you are a hunter.

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The 270 is great cartridge, why esle would everyone be comparing others to it!! wink grin


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Originally Posted by AkMtnHntr
The 270 is great cartridge, why esle would everyone be comparing others to it!! wink grin

We seem to hear things like...
25-06 vs 270
7mm mag vs 270
30-06 vs 270
7mm-08 vs 270
280 vs 270
7x57 vs 270
etc...

All the time, so I guess you could say the 270 is the standard by which others are measured.


Whatever a 7x57 can do a 270 can do better.

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If it is the closest door down the hallway, then no-one will notice any difference between it and the comparison unless the difference is really just the bullet performance which is the way I see it.

I 140gn TSX in both cartridges will do the same thing on game and you won't know which one you fired.

This is the reason I continually recommend finding a rifle you like and then select the cartridge as a secondary feature. Having said that, I have known people who build a complete rifle arounn a single bullet based on the "want" within their gut feel.

Doesn't work either. Never saw one of them stick with that rifle or bullet after completion. One mate even had the bullet engraved in "gold" on the action. Shame the barrel twist was guessed wrong. Oh Well, it's only money.

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You say the deer weigh 120-125 lbs.
The answer is obvious 25-06. If you go elk hunting load a 115 gr. Nosler partition and you are good to go!


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Originally Posted by AussieGunWriter
The 7mm Mauser is an example of refined taste and acceptance for the phrase, "enough is enough".


John



EXACTAMUNDO! laugh


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Originally Posted by goose2044
If I see two identical rifles on the shelf at a gun shop, one in 270, one in 25-06, the 270 is just not cool in any way while the 25-06 seems just awesome.

Jackoff OC ruined the 270 for me, not because of him or his writings but because of his followers that are still ignorantly stroking his stiff...

I know a lot of intelligent shooters of the 270, but unfortunately there are just too many 270 shooters that absolutely love the round and call it the best ever; trouble is that they have no idea why. For that reason, I can't join the 270 camp. I know, I know, my loss.


I have the same feelings for the .270, but it started back in high school. Every idiot that ever claimed to make a 700 yard shot, one shot kill on a running deer happened to do it with a .270. Their .270 shot so much flatter than a Remmington or Winchester .270 that they didnt even have to hold high at 500 yards. An average idiot becomes a superhero by having a relative that owns a .270.

I have guns in .25-06, .280, .30-06. I did finally buy a .270, so I could tear it apart and have a custom built on the action... but it wont stay a .270.

To make a long ramble a little longer, I would go with the .25-06, its a fun little round and pretty versatile. If bigger game was in my future, I would move up to the .280 or .30-06.

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First off congratulations on Your anniversary, I love the 270 WCF, but the 25/06 will do what Your after w/ a little less recoil. A nice little 100 TTSX @3000/3100 fps. would be about perfect and recoil next to nothin'

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