supercub99
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I would be reluctant to say better but agree it's on average a good round and would keep pace with a lot of them.
I do base my preference on the ability to shoot heavy bullets if needed. The largest bullet you can buy in factory ammunition is 150 gr. I won't swear there isn't someone out there making 160 gr, but I don't recall them. If you hand load you can get some spendy boutique bullets in up to 180 gr, Barnes comes to mind. I know Berger makes some target 170's but not hunting type.
This isn't just an issue with the .270, the heaviest bullet I could find for the 7mm Mag was 175 gr. but I could drive that at 2900-3000+ fps, you won't do that with a .270. There is a wild bison hunt up here that requires you use a minimum 200 gr bullet if you draw a tag. I did a few years ago and couldn't use the 7mm because of that rule.
If all you are going to do is hunt in Grizzly free deer range, I'm more than ok with the .270. In Alaska, no guide would let you hunt with that for bears and wouldn't encourage it for moose. The latter mainly because one often runs into the other while out in the woods.
Jack O Conner was the .270's biggest champion, he used if for just about everything, writers tend to have their cal/s. Mostly he was into sheep, deer and occasionally elk. He did go to Africa, what he shot there with it I don't know, but the average person wouldn't and especially today.
As far as accuracy, it's a hunting round and meets that requirement. As an accurate target round, it's hard to say as no one ever really developed a target bullet for it that I know of.
I have nothing against the round, it's just a little narrower in scope than what I would want.
I do base my preference on the ability to shoot heavy bullets if needed. The largest bullet you can buy in factory ammunition is 150 gr. I won't swear there isn't someone out there making 160 gr, but I don't recall them. If you hand load you can get some spendy boutique bullets in up to 180 gr, Barnes comes to mind. I know Berger makes some target 170's but not hunting type.
This isn't just an issue with the .270, the heaviest bullet I could find for the 7mm Mag was 175 gr. but I could drive that at 2900-3000+ fps, you won't do that with a .270. There is a wild bison hunt up here that requires you use a minimum 200 gr bullet if you draw a tag. I did a few years ago and couldn't use the 7mm because of that rule.
If all you are going to do is hunt in Grizzly free deer range, I'm more than ok with the .270. In Alaska, no guide would let you hunt with that for bears and wouldn't encourage it for moose. The latter mainly because one often runs into the other while out in the woods.
Jack O Conner was the .270's biggest champion, he used if for just about everything, writers tend to have their cal/s. Mostly he was into sheep, deer and occasionally elk. He did go to Africa, what he shot there with it I don't know, but the average person wouldn't and especially today.
As far as accuracy, it's a hunting round and meets that requirement. As an accurate target round, it's hard to say as no one ever really developed a target bullet for it that I know of.
I have nothing against the round, it's just a little narrower in scope than what I would want.