270 too light for mule deer

[Brithunter]

You mean to tell me that the Gunwriters Lie



I would more surprised if you said they spoke the truth. Trouble is that truth does not sell advertising and they could never say this rifle is total garbage as that would mean no more advertising from that client even if it happened to be the truth.

As for the ole .270 Win it does tend to mulitply in the cabinet as I also have 4 of them. Looks liek the 243 win has the same traits as they seem to b multiplying too .

[popplecop]

.270 is obsolete for sure. I'm still shooting my Father's Winchester Model 54 in 270 Win. I have shot whitetails, mulies, antelope, coyotes and a bull elk with this caliber. Obsolete my foot.

[Redram]

I killed a really nice muley on my trip to New Mexico. I want to post a picture of him, but I don't know how. By the way my 270 WSM did the trick.

[MacD37]

IMO, the gun rag writers are just like a lot of writers here on the internet! What I mean by that is, they have a habit of repeating things they've heard people say over the years as gospel. Then the young readers of their atricles repeat what the gun rag writer wrote. It is a real circle jerk of missinformation, and much of it has been repeated for so many years that it has become legend.

This has always been a bone of contention with writers! I have had them scold me on the different forums for painting them with too wade of brush. They really get going when I prove them to be wrong on a particular subject.

I must say here that the 270 Win is a cartridge that I have never liked, but that is a personal thing, and has nothing to do with the viability of the 270 Win as a Muledeer rifle. The only problem I see with it is the guys who shoot it tend to use bullets that are too light, because it gives them more speed. When, in fact, the heaviest quality bullet available should be used for Muledeer.

The 243 win got the same reputation because when it first came out the factory ammo came with a light bullet, and a 100 gr bullet. The light bullet was made for varment use, and the 100 gr bullet was designed for deer. Because the advertized speed of the light bullet was much faster than the heavy, guys tried it on deer, with very poor results. The light bullets tended to blow up on impact, wounding deer to go off and die a lengering death. That wasn't the fault of the cartridge but of the shooter. Still the cartridge got the blame. There has never been a better deer cartridge than a 243 Win with 100 gr tough bullets @ at around 2900/3000 fps. The 270 got the same treatment and still holds that rep in a lot of circles. It is no more true of the 270 Win than it is of the 243 Win.

[Larryjk]

My son and I both have 270s ; the standard Winchester and the Weatherbys. The WSM apparently falls in between them. We feel that a .270 is ideal for deer with the 130 gr. bullet. We also have 6.5/06, .264 Mag..280s, 7mm Mags, etc. They are all "adequate", it really depends where you place the bullet.