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, ...

Walk into any deer camp in Western New York during rifle season, and you’ll hear it before the coffee finishes brewing: the ...

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 ...

Happy New Year, everyone! Like no doubt many of you, 2024 was not the best year of my life and so far 2025 could look a bit more shiny, given my druthers, but it’s still early. As I was gnawing on a ...

In 1978, my best friend bought a Remington 700 chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum. It was a fire-breathing dragon, and I had to have something better or just as good. While saving paper-route money I ...

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This story, “The .270 in Africa,” was originally published in the March 1967 issue of Outdoor Life. Bechuanaland is now Botswana. My wife and I did a 30-day hunt in Bechuanaland in the summer of 1966.