Thread: 270 shooters

Originally Posted by johnd

When a friend said he wanted to give hunting a go, he asked what he should get. My immediate responce was .270 it will do everything you ever want in NZ.
I have had 3 in different disguises and has been said very forgiving for not quite on the spot shooting. It has had a bad rap for being a booter but that is down to stock design and noise mostly. Often negated by better recoil pad and or supressing.
9 years on my friend is still on the 60 odd rounds I reloaded for him, but quite a number of animals in amongst those shots fired.

This is right on the money. I'm sure the 270's bad rap for recoil is probably the figment of some gun writer imagination who needed to write something for a magazine article (probably at the same time a marketer was trying to launch a new round like 243 or something). Reinforced by some poor sod shooting his 270 with a poorly designed 60's style stock (think Parker Hale Delux) and no earmuffs at the range for sighting in.

The 280 and 7x64 are identical ballistically and neither of them have anything like the recoil reputation of the 270.