Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

I need to have more of these type of discussions. Every time I do I seem to get a big boar.
I saw some young pigs a few days back up a gorgy small river. One of our farm staff is training up some pig dog pups and so tonight I said to him, lets go see if we can get onto them. Plan was I drop him off down river and then boost it upstream too some bluffs while he hunted the dogs on up. First system where id seen the pigs, and no result. I headed off again to come out on another high bluff over looking the river and there were 7 pigs out in the open. I waited quietly for his dogs too arrive and they latched on to an 80lb boar, and then I let rip at 150lb boar as he tried to escape. High shot entry shooting down but result was the same with centre of lungs and top of heart destroyed and he went straight too the ground. It was about a 90 meter shot of my knee.
lets be real. there are a number of calibers that would have achieved that at that range. creed more,308, 6.5x55, 270, 7x57, rem mag, 300 win for example.
But I stuck the 270 in the middle of that list for a reason, it can compete with the bigger rounds while still not having overtly more recoil than the others.

This Saturday I helped my mate get his first deer. 230m with a strong wind - maybe 30- 40kmph. Having a capped scope on the .270 I put a photo up of earlier, I told him to give it a good foot to the left for the wind and hold 20 cm high for the drop. He dutifully did so. The elevation was good but shot was just a slight bit back from the crease unfortunately, I may have underestimated the wind or it may have been the shooter. Nonetheless the .270 Win had enough energy going through that 130gr SST alright. Watching through the binos I saw the deer drop right on the spot and take the full impact of the bullet. The deer suffered huge collateral damage even though the shot was not in the perfect spot.

I think that is an advantage to a fast travelling round with the appropriately designed bullet on it like the .270 Win. You get that bit of wiggle room to ensure a humane kill when you take the shot in challenging conditions.