Does Anyone Use A 270 Win.

[Frostbite]

I still use the one gifted to me by my father c. 1993-1994 for rifle season. It was my first rifle. It's a BAR. It's the epitome of the hunting rifle in my very humble opinion (I know I don't know very much). I have other toys for range time, bolt actions. Worst (because it is so old and low tech and suboptimal in performance according to the Internet), I have always fed it Winchester 150 grain PowerPoint, except once on a bear hunt, when a gun counter clerk had convinced me bear were almost bulletproof (I know better now). Deer die very well when I do what I should do with the .270 Winchester. Excellent hunting round.

 

[md7]

I’ve used the 270 Win for almost 30 years for whitetail. No clue how many deer I’ve killed with it at this point.

It works, and I like it.

 

[Rubone]

Remington 700 "Classic" in .270. It is a new favorite for me!

 

[JFrank]

I really like the 270 in both the Winchester as well as the short mag, at a glance they seem to have near identical ballistics. On our ranch the short mag gets the nod.

 

[snuzzo29]

A 270win is my main hunting rifle. I plan on buying a new rifle this year and will go with 270win again.

 

[Roverguy]

Love it. Speed goats. Long range coyotes. And, from time to time, deer at a distance. Hard to beat the 270 Win for just getting it done.

 

[md7]

Here’s the only pic I’ve got of my 270 Win. This buck was taken in the 2020 season. Remington 700 Mt Rifle with detachable magazine. Given to me as a gift from my parents. Circa 1995-96 time frame.

I think of them almost every time I hold it.

 

[EMC45]

Yup - Remington Model 700 ADL WalMart plastic stock key lock special. I put a 4X M8 Leupold on it and adjusted the trigger to a manageble pull. I've only shot paper with it however.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I've got a nice little Savage in .270 Win.
If I were ever to hunt again (I only hunt when I need meat for my family) then that is the rifle that I am most likely to use.

 

[3Crows]

My Ruger red pad M77 in .270 Winchester. Taken a few deer. Trying out a new scope:



In the end I stayed with the old Westernfield. It is clear and bright and looks right on the rifle.

3C

 

[JmacD]

I’ve used the 270 Win for almost 30 years for whitetail. No clue how many deer I’ve killed with it at this point.

It works, and I like it.

In my Moms side of the family, I believe the 270(in several different rifles) has taken approximately 200 deer. Starts with my grandpa and his model 70 ( he borrowed $250 and bought it new with a 4x weaver in 1962). One uncle is a south paw and he shoots a Remington 7600. Other has a 700 he has just rebuilt. My dad borrowed a m77 for awhile before he bought a 110. I just knocked down deer #5 for me with that gun last weekend. Most of my Family is either 308 or 270. Man… a whole year to wait for next season…

 

[md7]

In my Moms side of the family, I believe the 270(in several different rifles) has taken approximately 200 deer. Starts with my grandpa and his model 70 ( he borrowed $250 and bought it new with a 4x weaver in 1962). One uncle is a south paw and he shoots a Remington 7600. Other has a 700 he has just rebuilt. My dad borrowed a m77 for awhile before he bought a 110. I just knocked down deer #5 for me with that gun last weekend. Most of my Family is either 308 or 270. Man… a whole year to wait for next season…

Generations of a successful track record. I’m not surprised at all. In my experience they’re DRT, or they perish within a few yards. Almost never have to track em.

308 is great too, as are others.

 

[WisBorn]

It seem the 270 win takes a back seat now days. What I like about a 270 Win.
Goes with saying .

I think you are right. The popularity of the 270 win is dwindling. Walking into gun shops in SC I see very few new 270s on the rack.
AR15, AR10, ext... type rifles are over 50% of the rifles in the racks. Of the new bolt action rifles - most are chambered in 6.5 CM followed by 308 win. I bought a 270 win about a year and have ago on clearance. Gave it to my nephew. I would not look for a 270 specifically, but if another bargain shows up I will buy it. If I was in the market for a new all around rifle it would be a toss up between a 308 win and 280 AI (just like it/ performs like a 7rm but kicks less).

 

[Rexster]

More than once, I have very nearly bought pre-owned rifles chambered for .270 Winchester, largely because quite a few were made with left-hand actions, in the past, when .270 was a very popular chambering. (Being left-eye-dominant, I shoot scoped rifles lefty.) A new Sako Bavarian, with quite nice open sights, which I can use to shoot right-handed, was on an LGS’ rifle rack, during the panic-demic, and would have almost certainly come home, with me, except that .270 Winchester ammo had, by then, disappeared from every inventory I could find.

So, my mid-level rifles remain .308 Winchester. Personally, on a practical level, I am willing to use .308 Winchester, and .270 Winchester, for much the same things. I am not really a hunter, of medium/big game animals, but my friends who do hunt such game seem to do just as well with any number of cartridges, including .270 Winchester.

 

[CowboyTim]

With the excetion of 8x57, killed a lot of deer with .270 Winchester. I've got 3 of them in the safe...reminds me, I need to get the M70 out and shoot it one of these days...

 

[Gordon]

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A mid 1950's Winchester Model 70 chambered in 270 WCF. It was given to my father by my grandfather, and later passed down to me. The first deer I shot with a rifle (grew up in a slug only state) was shot with this rifle. Back in Ohio as a kid shot alot of groundhogs with it.

Ditto , received my used 1953 Model 70 in .270 with a Unertl Hawk scope mounted when I turned 18 (57 years back) from an Uncle and recently gave it to a young friend in a trade . Truth is it did get upgraded for its use by my .270 WSM Model 70 in the late 90s , but nothing wrong with it at all for same use today .

 

[J-Bar]

The .270 can be found in rifles other than bolt actions, for those of us who march to a different drummer.

 

[lightman]

I've never owned a 270. But about half of the members in my Deer Club shoot one. Its a fine cartridge that just keeps hanging in there.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I just remembered that years ago a buddy of mine referred to the 270 as "The American 7 millimeter..."
It seems an apt expression.

 

[Pulldeaux]

Used one for over 40 years as my most used deer rifle. I still use it because it works very well.

There is a trend among shooters to put down many cartridges or rifles that has no logic or reason to support the criticism and mocking that often occurs on forums like this. Those "put downs" are most often the efforts of insecure, or uninformed, or inexperienced hunters who read too much and hunt too little. If you want to promote the "modern" cartridges (like the Creedmoor or the short magnums as examples) as improvements over older rounds, go right ahead. But anyone who tries to convince you that hunting with the cartridges that have been doing exactly what is needed on game for anywhere from 40 to 120 years is going to hinder your success, is just blowing smoke or trying to pump up his own ego. The .270 (and several others that many try to disparage) is a perfectly fine hunting round. It's even better than it was 50 years ago (as are most "older" rounds) because of new bullets and powders. If you can't kill it with a .270 and a good bullet, you can't kill it with the newest and most exciting marketing star of the day either. If "advantages" that will never be detectable in a hunting situation seem important to you, then the subtle changes that many newly designed rounds are marketed as revolutionary and new may be fun for you. If you need to be "modern" just because - go ahead. But to suggest that the .270 is somehow not capable and should be declared obsolete, is just dumb.

Marketing star is the norm today ,I make hunters mad ,when I say 3006 and 270 the same.they are with the same weight pill at the same speeds ..apples to apples . We don’t have the open land as other states do..
Mostly swamp Hunting in south Louisiana

 

[hpops]

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A mid 1950's Winchester Model 70 chambered in 270 WCF. It was given to my father by my grandfather, and later passed down to me. The first deer I shot with a rifle (grew up in a slug only state) was shot with this rifle. Back in Ohio as a kid shot alot of groundhogs with it.

I just love the wood on those old 1950 era Model 70 rifles. I have one in .220 Swift.

 

[Pulldeaux]

Only been killing stuff with this M77 RL since 1985. Don't need or want anything else for what I use a centerfire rifle for.

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I’ll never forget,1972 in the woods blasting with a 270 win.loaded w/ 90 gr hp/imr4832,63.0 grs 20 pound soft shell
turtle getting sun not forgettable

 

[sarduy]

It seem the 270 win takes a back seat now days. What I like about a 270 Win.
Goes with saying .

It’s one of those calibers that just works and pretty much everything is fine with it so not much to debate nowadays just like the 7mm Remington Magnum, no military contracts or special ops but will put an Elk down at 700 yards no problem.

 

[DustyGmt]

I know this is a gun website, but the rifle and cartridge I use for deer or elk is probably the thing I worry about the least when I hunt. The .270 win has been killing them dead for a long time, mine is no different. I don't see any reason to buy another rifle in a different cartridge for the kind of hunting I do. I just grab it and go shoot stuff.

This is probably the most practical reply I've ever seen on a gun forum, lol. But you can't fault people for geeking out a lil bit and having a highly nuanced discussion about the merits of one cartridge over another.

 

[The old gunsmith]

You don't hear much from us 270 guys cause we're out hunting while the ones shooting the latest and greatest cartridge are on their computers talking about how great their new rifle is.