In Praise of The Winchester .270. Any good words to say about it ?

[Lab]

I had a 06 for years. Got sold on the 270. It has dispatched multiple elk and deer with no problem. It is a flat shooter. I have a 788 Rem 240 too and that thing flat out shoots rounds. Grouping on a dime

 

[huntnfisher]

I have a lightweight 270 that I got with the plan to take it on a sheep hunt. That didn’t happen, but I used it for a bear and for my only mule deer. I thought about my cartridge choice as we drove by the Jack O’Connor Center on our way to the deer hunt.

BTW - I have heard too many stories of success with the 270 on elk and moose to consider it as just a “deer cartridge.”

I guess that I called it a "deer cartridge" because all that I hunt is whitetail deer. I never said that it was "just a deer cartridge", and I mentioned that my neighbor uses it for elk and moose with good success.

 

[MTLabrador]

The .270 is easily my favorite all around rifle for deer and elk. It’s also a lot more gun than most people give it credit for on the bigger animals.

 

[DamascusSteel]

I've killed a good number of deer with 270 and the first time I took my son hunting I shot a deer with that rifle. I will always have one and im using it on my next hunt.

 

[Wilderland]

I live out west. I have an older Remington 700 BDL that I eventually dropped in a CDL stock. It has taken every big game animal I’ve shot, except for my first whitetail last year in Virginia. It’s also responsible for my son’s first three mule deer. Every animal, to include elk, has only required one shot to drop, 130 grain through 150’s. It’s not a MOA shooter, but that’s never been a handicap.

Blued, walnut, not the most efficient cartridge out there, and not my most accurate rifle. It just works every year, again and again. How is this possible?

 

[EastTNHunter]

I’ll always have at least one .270 Win in my gun cabinet. Been using one for years. Killed my first deer with one. They just work. I prefer the 140gr NAB but also do just fine with 140gr TGKs and Hornady BTSPs

 

[17remhunter]

Right before Jack died he had an article in Outdoor Life, being the shooting editor, that he felt that the .280 was a better Cartridge than the .270

 

[Mustangs Rule]

I live out west. I have an older Remington 700 BDL that I eventually dropped in a CDL stock. It has taken every big game animal I’ve shot, except for my first whitetail last year in Virginia. It’s also responsible for my son’s first three mule deer. Every animal, to include elk, has only required one shot to drop, 130 grain through 150’s. It’s not a MOA shooter, but that’s never been a handicap.

Blued, walnut, not the most efficient cartridge out there, and not my most accurate rifle. It just works every year, again and again. How is this possible?

Confidence is work here, plus shooting from the unconscious mind.

I have had my three favorite rifles for; 55 years, the 30-06, 43 years the 270, and 29 years my 308 Sako 75 Finnlight. That total 127 years of using them.

Every winter I do snowshoe Biathlon course with them, staying with one each month

My rifle skills with all on them are great but how i shoot the 30-06 Safari grade bolt action Browing borders on magical and get this, even with the simple 4x fixed scope it had on it 55 years ago when i bought it used in 1970.

 

[DamascusSteel]

270 Win put this deer down unbelievably well, my son was with me and that makes it all the better

 

[slatebuilder]

Tomorrow is the first day of bear season. My wife was over joyed when I explained the possibilities and activities for the bear rug, once said bear is killed. Hopefully Mr Bear gets a sudden case of lead poisoning tomorrow.

Anyway, since this a 270 thread, here is a model 70 featherweight in 270. My dad hunted bears with it in the 80’s. When I turned 12 he handed it off to me. I drug it all over the placing in the 90’s and early 2000’s killing lots of stuff with it. The last animal though was a Wyoming whitetail in 2011, the last time I hunted the rifle seriously.

It’s time again. Dad had an ancient partial box of good old lead 150 grain Hornady flat bases. They were covered with green shit. I threw them in the tumbler to clean them off, paired them with IMR 4350, and shot 14 to test the load and zero. It shot good. A month ago I fired 3 more to check zero. They made a perfect little 7/8” triangle @100.

 

[mtmuley]

My Son has been using a Ruger tang safety for a long time. The .270 is a great cartridge that is overlooked. mtmuley

 

[Darkside]

A 277 dia. Bullet is really all you need. Pending on the purpose you have around 85gr to 170gr. bullet to shoot.
The 270/277 is one of my favorites. A couple of Wildcat’s I built is 270-08 necking down the 308 to 270, it’s a great cartridge, shooting 85grTTsx to 145 Eld-m. And one of my favorites 270/7Rum necking down a 7mmRum to a 270.
What a Hoot to Shoot 170gr at 3500fps.
Have Fun be Safe.