I prefer the heavier bullets in a .270 Win. My experience with a .270 is very long and extremely thin. I took a nice mule deer with one back in the mid 1970s, or thereabouts. One shot, one deer. A true bang/flop.
Frankly, the story of that deer hunt in better than the kill.
If you're not bored with hunting stories then you might get a bit of a kick from this one.
I was hunting with my next door neighbor whose only knowlege about deer hunting was what he read in OUTDOOT LIFE, FIELD & STREAM and SPORTS AFIELD which usually covered hunting in the eastern part of the country for whitetails. Tom kept moaning and griping about this country was too wide open with no cover for a deer to hide. We're sitting on a ridge that ran from easy to west with another ridge running north to south intersecting it about 80 yards way. At the intersection there was a nice saddle.
I'm sitting kind of looking at the saddle, Tom is griping about this being the wrong type of cover for deer ad nauseum when there was a flurry of shots over on the other side of the saddle. My radar goes on, because these dude are making it sound like Little Beruit. About this time a nice 5x5 buck comes trotting through the saddle. I guess Tom was looking the other way when I shot, because he's all over my butt hollering, "Be careful with that gun, Guns are dangerous.", and so on. Me? I'm looking at where the deer dropped.
I look at Tom and asked him if he wanted to help me gut the deer. He didn't belive me until we got to where the deer was.
A perfect 4x4 with two matching drop points. I still have that rack.
I forgot to mention, Tom was from New York City. Here I teach him about the freedom of the wide open spaces of the west and he moves back to NYC. I guess some people never learn.
he a hell of a nice guy though.
Paul B.