Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

Here’s my experience with the .270.


When I first got my fire arms license as a young Auckland male. - I’d never even held a gun let a lot shot one - or gone hunting. In fact I didn’t know a single other hunter to ask for advice. So off to hunting and fishing I went after some Google research where everyone said “get a 308” so I did, I went ang got a neat little short barrel howa which I took to the NZDA range and zerod at 100m. And then I started hunting and meeting hunters and shot a good amount of deer - but all of these were under 100m. Then one day I saw the red stag of my dreams (I still have yet to see another even close to him).

I lined up the shot and pulled the trigger and promptly missed him. He looked around again and soon got another chance. Only I missed again. And again and shot off all 5 rounds as I had no idea what was happening. (We then measured the distance to 300m and I had never had the chance to shoot that far before I didn’t realise my short barrel 308 would drop to much at this distance as I believed what the box of ammo said)

My new hunting mate I was with then lined it up and bang. He dropped it - he was shooting a 270.

I was spewing. And couldn’t understand what happened as I had never missed before. I didn’t really even know hold overs as never had the chance to shoot past 100.

Promptly when out and sold the 308 and got a 270.

A few years later I know better and know how to dial and can hit steel out past 500yards easily with my 270. But still haven’t seen a stag like that one before that now hangs on my mates wall and not mine. In fact still haven’t shot a single red stag.


Oh well! Hard lessons for new young shooters.

But saying that, just this week I have gone back out and purchased another short barrel 308 for the bush as the long barrel 270 just isn’t fun in the kaimais.