Which one is best?

Which is better and why...no asking BIGREDD

  • 270 win

    Votes: 25 51.0%

  • 280 rem

    Votes: 24 49.0%
  • Total voters
    49
Both are good cartridges, in fact I just about ended up with a Remington 280 other than the Remington 30-06. In my opinion though, The 7mm is just too close to the 30cal to make any difference whatsoever on the flight to the animal, or when it penetrates the animal. What makes the 270 is the lighter 130gr bullet that you can push much faster for flatter trajectories, lighter recoil, and it will still work very nicely on deer sized game.
Mike
 
which ever one breaks 4000fps!:eek: that will be the bestest! :p
which one beats a 7mm wby? That would be the winner for sure!
 
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As a .280 Remington user, I can state with conviction that those ten extra grains and .007 of an inch represent the tipping point at which rifles become effective. None of the game I killed could ever have been harvested with the puny .270 Winchester.....it's ludicrous to even entertain the thought!
I do have a serious question....though I have read frequently in O'Connor's writing that the .270 was a great cartridge (as was the 7X57, .280 Rem, .257 Roberts, .30-06, .300 and .375 H&H and several others) I have never found a quote where he said unequivocally that it was the best rifle for North American game. Can someone help me out?
 
Kilo Charlie said:
As a .280 Remington user, I can state with conviction that those ten extra grains and .007 of an inch represent the tipping point at which rifles become effective. None of the game I killed could ever have been harvested with the puny .270 Winchester.....it's ludicrous to even entertain the thought!
I do have a serious question....though I have read frequently in O'Connor's writing that the .270 was a great cartridge (as was the 7X57, .280 Rem, .257 Roberts, .30-06, .300 and .375 H&H and several others) I have never found a quote where he said unequivocally that it was the best rifle for North American game. Can someone help me out?
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I don't think that he ever did; he simply said that it was a suburb cartridge, that was in his opinion adequate for everything in North America.
Mike
 
Elmer Keith always maintained the .270 was, and I quote, "A pretty fair coyote rifle." And, as Elmer was 3 years older than that schoolteacher O'Connor, he was undoubtably wiser.................
 
That's not a bad start to another stupic this one or that one thread, the last one of these had over 3000 posts last winter...lol


I have a ways to go vs BIGREDD.
 
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