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 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, ...

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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.