Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

But if it's the 6.8 sig I'm thinking about they are running at 75k plus psi (with a 2 piece case), to get a normal performance for a 270 from an AR platform with a short barrel. Not quite the same.
6.8 westerner I a bit more like the modern take on cartridges.
Shorter fatter unrelated case (just different enought to not get mixed with 270wsm), with a fast twist barrel to get heavier, more BC efficient projectiles that work better at longer distances.
Ala 6.5creed vs 260 and 6.5x55.
If you don't shoot that far out it's a moot point

Let's more red stuff out n sunlight in too.

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.

But to sum up my story I absolutely love my .270 and will never sell it. Another mate mate just got his fire arms license and for his first rifle I said “go get a .270”

Originally Posted by SpeightsDrinker

But to sum up my story I absolutely love my .270 and will never sell it. Another mate mate just got his fire arms license and for his first rifle I said “go get a .270”

No surprises there Speightsdrinker....Waikato and 30cal all the way

Remington RRB no5 Sporting Rifle
Originally 7x57 and rebarreled to 7x57R
If you can call the 7x57 a 275 Rigby
I can call the 7x57R a 275 Rigby Flanged

Sorry no pics yet
I came home and worked on an 1885 first
And the 40-70 @ 44-77

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Remington RRB no5 Sporting Rifle
Originally 7x57 and rebarreled to 7x57R
If you can call the 7x57 a 275 Rigby
I can call the 7x57R a 275 Rigby Flanged

Sorry no pics yet
I came home and worked on an 1885 first
And the 40-70 @ 44-77

Anyway this is a post about the modern 270 which isn't even 100 years old yet
You don't want to see my old junk rifles

I just love the way those slope four shouldered cases feed so slickly from a R700 magazine. And how far out you can seat the pills out in a R700 magazine creating room for so much powder. Cos I quite like to burn powder and paying a bit more for a good pill doesn't worry me, it's my favorite hobby. And lastly when it shoot and hunt with my .270 it doesn't make me feel cheap and dirty like when i shoot my .223!

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Anyway this is a post about the modern 270 which isn't even 100 years old yet
You don't want to see my old junk rifles

Greetings,
I thought it might be a 7x57R and you were winding us up. Will look forward to the continuing story. Not junk to me.
GPM.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Remington RRB no5 Sporting Rifle
Originally 7x57 and rebarreled to 7x57R
If you can call the 7x57 a 275 Rigby
I can call the 7x57R a 275 Rigby Flanged

Sorry no pics yet
I came home and worked on an 1885 first
And the 40-70 @ 44-77

I also am in possession of a "275 Rigby flanged" as you say. Although I call it a 7x57R so as not to appear pretentious🙂.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

I also am in possession of a "275 Rigby flanged" as you say. Although I call it a 7x57R so as not to appear pretentious��.

MY brother has a lee enfeild in that case and calibre. Whats the correct name for that particular one?

Originally Posted by whanahuia

MY brother has a lee enfeild in that case and calibre. Whats the correct name for that particular one?

It's a 7x57R always has been and always should be

I was just taking the piss
And I like the way the Europeans designate their caliber and length
Very helpful
Unlike the American system that does give at least a clue
Then there's the British where things get quite messy with so many variations on a single bore and then they throw in another word to add to the confusion

One of the ways we can tell the .270 is the best ever....

We dont need a .270 on deer type thread.

everyone just know it works.

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