Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

I love my .270w howa..but by hoki I miss the BLR.308

Originally Posted by Kelton

Speed

There are faster and slower. Thats not it.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

There are faster and slower. Thats not it.

Sorry I might have replied to the wrong post I was referring to the WSM being faster than the Winchester hence leaving less runners with the higher impact velocity’s, iv personally found to much speed a negative with certain projectiles I ran the vanilla 130sp for years did everything I needed it to now load 145eldx

Yip...and if you go with softer projectile you get more expansion and bruised bits/damage at slower speed.

Recently there was a thread about "what will kill of the 7mm RM . . . 6.5 PRC was my answer and Id say it has the potential to dong the 270 as well. Some modern cartridges just make sense. It's nice to like your 270 but in all good conscience I wouldn't suggest it to a young hunter buying a new rifle. If they were looking secondhand - maybe.

Probably said this before but there was a wonderful article by Geoff Roache in the NZ Guns extolling the virtue of the 270. He was doing a lot of shooting around Ruatahuna on big red stags across big gullies. With a 130gr pill it flattens deer. Think Tinsley used a 270 on wapiti . Greame Sinclair used a 270 and also a 25/06 when he hunted with Tinsley.

Originally Posted by Tentman

Recently there was a thread about "what will kill of the 7mm RM . . . 6.5 PRC was my answer and Id say it has the potential to dong the 270 as well. Some modern cartridges just make sense. It's nice to like your 270 but in all good conscience I wouldn't suggest it to a young hunter buying a new rifle. If they were looking secondhand - maybe.

Id love to see the posts you cancelled.

What a bunch of gaybo's!

Gibo says"gaybo's". Classic

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Gibo says"gaybo's". Classic

It's definitely been the most accurate post in this thread so far.


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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Gibo says"gaybo's". Classic

And now we are on the verge of seeing a post on the 270 banned due to Religous Fanaticism and homophobia

Originally Posted by akaroa1

And now we are on the verge of seeing a post on the 270 banned due to Religous Fanaticism and homophobia

Sorry for hurting your feelings

Well I only has one gun for a short while in my late teens.
I had sold my 22 because a new Anschutz 22 was on order and expected in 2 months ... it took a year !

So I only had a 270 which I reloaded for.
I also was working in the Bush part time and had a gundog to feed.
The 270 was just fine and I could head shoot rabbits at 100m to feed my dog.

It was, and still would be a perfectly adequate " one rifle to do it all "

It's the annoying little brother of the mighty, 3006.


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How good is the 270? Sig spend millions developing a new 6.8 mm cartridge shooting a 135gr projectile, and it pretty much achieves what the 270 does.