Troy, While Jack O Conner loved the 270 he also said the 7x57 was the perfect sheep medicine in a mountain rifle. That is a caliber that has always been on my radar but I just never put it together. This day and age seems everybody needs magnum calibers for hunting game that is easily taken with lighter easy shooting calibers like the 7x57. I might be straying off course a bit here. Sorry Jeff, once again you have yourself a very fine rifle in a fire breathing caliber that I think came about in 1936.