help what to buy ??

Well, if you wanted to start a great debate, I think you picked the right two cartridges.:)
Having no experience with either, my only input can be: if you're not a reloader, then the greater availability of 270 Win. factory loads would make it
the most logical choice.
Other then that, I'll just:popCorn:
 
I have both a 6.5x55 (Win. M70 Featherweight) and a .270 (Ruger No.1). I have to say that there's no really huge difference between the two cartridges. Factory loads for the 6.5x55 can be hard to come by in some areas and other guys have said that the only 6.5's they can find are 140 gr. loads. .270's seem to be available in just about any Canadian Tire store.
If you want to reload - then the 6.5x55 can be much improved over factory loads.

Both are great cartridges. I just find that when I go to the safe my hand seems to be drawn to the 6.5x55.
 
What do you want it for? If it's range plinking or target work and you plan to reload the 6.5 is more interesting. If you intend to hunt than get the .270. In the field the 6.5 does nothing that the .270 can't do better.
 
Uh-oh, I forgot my ammo.

Picture this. You are on your way up to your hunt camp. You've been waiting to get back up there since you last left there a year ago. On your way up you realize "Oh crap! I forgot my ammo." and you are in some small no name town. They have a general store, and lucky you they sell some of the more popular CANADIAN hunting cartridges there. You saunter up to the old geezer(with the utmost respect) sitting on the chair and ask him for a box of 6.5X55 Sweedish Mauser. He looks at you with a blank stare. He then goes back to sitting on his chair.

Don't get me wrong. I love the 6.5 cartridge. It is a stroke of genius designing that cartridge. I even have a couple of old sweedish military rifles that will punch x-rings all day with the military iron sights. You just can't get ammo for it very readily. But I could be wrong. Mabye the small town you pass through on the way up to your camp has a wide variety of hunting ammo. Good luck.
 
mmm...chicken said:
Picture this. You are on your way up to your hunt camp. You've been waiting to get back up there since you last left there a year ago. On your way up you realize "Oh crap! I forgot my ammo." and you are in some small no name town. They have a general store, and lucky you they sell some of the more popular CANADIAN hunting cartridges there. You saunter up to the old geezer(with the utmost respect) sitting on the chair and ask him for a box of 6.5X55 Sweedish Mauser. He looks at you with a blank stare. He then goes back to sitting on his chair.

Don't get me wrong. I love the 6.5 cartridge. It is a stroke of genius designing that cartridge. I even have a couple of old sweedish military rifles that will punch x-rings all day with the military iron sights. You just can't get ammo for it very readily. But I could be wrong. Mabye the small town you pass through on the way up to your camp has a wide variety of hunting ammo. Good luck.
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I've been a few places where the only thing available locally was .22,30-30,308,30-06 and 303 at best if not less. So even if you had a 270 you be sool too
 
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