.270 or .30/06?

Get a 270. Many people around here use it for everything. And in the west at least, anywhere that sells ammo will have it. Of course all this can be said about the 30-06 as well.
 
I prefer the .270. It is easier on the shoulder and ears. Of all the 30-06s I have shot, they have been punishing on the shoulder and deafening loud. My .270 has very little kick or muzzle jump and I can still hear after a single shot. The 30-06 always has me looking at the sky with each shot and I am damn near deaf for a week.
 
Honest to goodness, I can't tell the difference in recoil or loudness, provided that the same type of gun and comparable ammo is used. But then again, I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi so....
 
Joe549 said:
I prefer the .270. It is easier on the shoulder and ears. Of all the 30-06s I have shot, they have been punishing on the shoulder and deafening loud. My .270 has very little kick or muzzle jump and I can still hear after a single shot. The 30-06 always has me looking at the sky with each shot and I am damn near deaf for a week.
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"Loudness" in a rifle is determined by how much pressure is left at the end of the barrel after the shot. A more overbore cartridge makes for a louder shot. With equal barrel lengths a .270 would be marginaly louder than a .30-06, although I could never tell the difference.

The only rifles that are noticeably louder than others are rifles chambered in seriously overbore cartridges, rifles with short short barrels (aside from low pressure rounds like a .30-30) and rifles with porting or muzzle brakes.

As for the .30-06 having too much recoil, it really is not bad. 20 ft/lbs of recoil energy.
 
I've never been able to see where the 30-06 killed any better than the .270, at least on our various deer species. If anything, I've seen the opposite.

Having said that, I currently own 4 30-06s and no .270 Wins. The 30-06s get used in high volume shooting, often without ear muffs. They don't heat up as fast. The reason I don't have use a .270 Win anymore is that my .270 WSM, Weatherby, 7 STW and newly acquired .264 Win Mag will all out-.270 a .270. That takes a fair bit of doing.
 
Home3 said:
Honest to goodness, I can't tell the difference in recoil or loudness, provided that the same type of gun and comparable ammo is used. But then again, I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi so....
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there is a difference my friend! I used to drink rum & coke for yrs and then met some new bar hopping M/C buddy's and they always ordered rum & pepsi, so I tried it. I thought it was a little better so I stuck with it for years. Then I heard some bad chite about the ingreds in pepsi, so I went back to coke. There I found that pepsi was much much sweeter and wondered how the hell I ever accepted pepsi in the first place!
 
I'm a little biased here, but im a .270 guy. a 130 gr bullet coming out at 3000ish fps just really appeals to me. Super flat, fast, low recoil, ammo is anywhere you can possible think of. It will kill anything from gophers to moose. Ive found a 130-140 bullet is all ive ever needed. In fact my loacl gun/ammo shop here will always have these calibers

.270
.243 win
7mm rem mag
300 win mag
.22-250
.223
.22
.17 hmr
.25-06
12/20 ga

He doesnt have any .30-06 or .308 for the fact that guys dont need it here cause they rarley shoot it. He can bring it in if you want it but doesnt stock it. You get the odd guy that shoots it, but the majority either go big or small, not really between. just my 0.2 on it
 
c-fbmi said:
Who cares? Been done to death...........buy a 300 Mag of one sort or the other and go kill stuff!!!
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.30 cals start to get interesting when they reach .270 speeds. Best of both worlds, but not much to discuss as far terminal performance is concerned. That's no problem, the debate just switchs to whether it kicks or not.
 
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