Of the hundreds of commercial metallic cartridges introduced, the .270 Winchester is one of few that have maintained a century-long tenure of popularity. As a youngster, I remember hearing my first ...

The 270 and 308 Win. have taken big-game critters all over the world, but only one can come out on top in this cartridge battle My first centerfire rifle was a 270 Winchester. It’s the first rifle I ...

The most common bullet weights for the .270 are 130 and 150 grains. The old buck walked slowly around the point, stopped, reached up for a mouthful of browse. The gold bead came to rest against his ...

At first-glance, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to compare the .270 vs .308. They are, after all, different calibers with different parent cases. However they are both classic big-game cartridges, ...

Not long after we rolled into the 21st century, one of the few truly groundbreaking cartridges to come on the scene in some time joined a short, fat upstart to form the basis for a small family line ...

The .270 Winchester will celebrate its 80th birthday in 2005. During its fourscore years of existence it has gained a worldwide popularity equaled by just a half dozen or so other calibers. While ...

One of the biggest mistakes I made growing up was to not take a couple of my paychecks and buy a .270 Winchester rifle for hunting deer, elk and moose. Many of my friends had purchased .270 ...

A friend stopped by the other evening while I was away, and as promised, left a small package inside the door way. Scooping up the paper sack along with the newspaper, I absent-mindedly dropped both ...

My first centerfire rifle was a 270 Winchester. It’s the first rifle I learned to handload for and a rifle I shot a lot of deer with. Oddly, as much as I liked the rifle—and as good as the 270 is—I ...