Thread: How much does a 270Win suck in 2019?

I will reply on the premise that James is serious.

Firstly, I meat hunted with a guy who used a .270 Ruger wood ultralight. 20" pencil barrel. It shot really well and I don't recall it ever failing.

In the last 10 years I have had 2 .270 wsm's. The first was an A7 which shot very well and flattened the dozen or so deer I shot with it using 150grn LRAB's at 3150 fps. It was ok to shoot without a suppressor, but far more pleasant with one. I re-barrelled it to 300saum which is fine and dandy, and I was happy.

Then a Browning xbolt in 270wsm came up that was attractively priced and I came over all funny. This one I clipped back to 22". Made for a tidier rifle. It blasted over a few deer using 150grn Bergers at 3050fps, and then I tried 130grn Barnes tipped LRX for no particular reason. These shoot holes into holes and bowl along at 3250 fps, and kill like lightning. Loving the combination - so much so that Im splashing out for a carbon stock for the Xbolt. The longest shot with the LRX has been 380 yards and it poll axed the deer with an angled shoulder shot - its likely that the bullet is still travelling if it hasn't hit a concrete wall yet.

I reckon that a 22" ordinary .270 shooting the 130 LRX at 3100 fps would be devastating and pleasant enough to shoot, and if you add a suppressor it doesn't need to be a heavier magnum one. But I'm totally happy with my .270wsm (and 5 my other rifles).