Best All Round Rifle Caliber?
- Thread starter Crsnake
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I could also tell you about the guy with the 7 mag who shot a huge grizzly. We had him dead to rights at less than 80 yards for five minutes. He shot after the bear started to run away and put a 175 gr Core Lokt into his rear end.
Spent the better part of two hours pussy-footing around, one step at a time, in thick willows trying to end the story.
Ted
Jim Scott handled and swung that rifle like it was an extension of his arm. He shot everything from gophers to grizzlies with his, and didn't take long doing it either.
Ted
It is, for whatever reason, a very accurate cartridge, and its moderate recoil makes it easy for most people to shoot it well. Consequently, more hits in more vital areas produce more lethal results. Your observation, "outsized effect", is well stated. I have a friend who has plastered more grizzlies with his 270 than most people have ever seen. He is a sheep and caribou hunter, and there is not much better way to find an interior bear than to go hunting for those two.
His load? Plain vanilla 150 gr factory Winchester Power Points.
My thoughts on it,
Ted
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Barnes_270
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- Langley, BC
It's also noteworthy that Ackley didn't think it was worth improving on.
The funny thing is that if it was a wildcat, people would sing its praises and spend big amounts on custom rifles for it.
People do. Some of the nicest, most expensive custom rifles are 270’s. People that spend their lives shooting on the internet are generally its biggest detractors.
New Camper
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Good point, and I never thought about Ackley not having any room to improve it either.
Though the 30-06AI being less overbore than the 270win might have been something Ackley considered.All this is an outright "up yours new and not any better cartridges"...
uh, no - metric.
Browning_300wsm
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- Eastern Ontario
I'm a 7 mil and quarter bore guy, .280 Remington and 257 Weatherby Mag are my top two.
Lots of good choices out there though!
Lots of good choices out there though!
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Gimmie money & free access to all the world's hunting zones and I'll gladly use a nice 6.5 Swede. Oh yeah, knock 30 yrs off me life to be fit fer the job. 
canadaman30
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I live and hunt Ontario, never owned a 270 until a few years ago. It's the only rifle I hunt with now. So far everything its touched has dropped in its tracks stone dead.
Weatherby Fan
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one caliber to do it all......thats just silly talk.........but since you asked a 30 cal magnum of some sort would be the most versatile, Ill go with the 300 PRC as it can shoot heavy high BC bullets and is an excellent long range cartridge if one desires to shoot long range !
canadaman30
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Yes sir, the only regret I have, is I wished I had owned one decades ago
Although a 7 or 30 is more versatile alot of my varmint hunting is done in caliber restricted zones so for me a quarter bore won. I wasnt so good financially at one point and needed a rifle for big game and varmints. The 2506 offered light fast varmint style bullets and controlled expansion for ontarios big game. Although id consider it light for moose i know what it can do and id rank it right up there next to the 270. Now im better off and have multiple rifles covering the span from 17 to 50 i still have love for my 2506. It will be getting its 3rd barrel after this coyote season.
Grew up hearing a lot of anti 270 rhetoric/Fudd lore from the old folks in my family on account of an incident or two where moose seemingly walked away from being pelted several times with one. When you are a kid, it sounds legit. Even the "zips through so fast it doesn't open" stuff.
Til I met and started hunting with some pretty accomplished folks who used a 270 Bee and a 270 Win. And killed. What do you know, if a 270 Wby was driving those bullets through both sides of bullwinkle with good expansion and he was tipping over, hard to believe the 270 Win wasn't gonna.
I was a dyed in the wool 30-06 man until recently but have to admit, the 270 has some better numbers behind it. Its a stout, well weighted bullet moving fast. Hard to argue with.
Perhaps back in the day, people were driving less effective 130 grain bullets into big animals too fast. I dunno. Or just not shooting well, but bringing up that theory was not very popular
