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 ...

Jack O’Connor didn’t invent the .270 Winchester, but he might as well have done so, because for more than 30 years he carried on a one-man cam­paign that transformed the .270 into one of the most ...

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 ...

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Neil Anderson, regional wildlife manager at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, checks a carcass at the game check station on U.S. 93 in Olney on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (Brooke Bickers/For the Pilot) ...

The shot from my .270 rifle seemed well placed, just behind the whitetail doe’s shoulder. As the rifle recoiled, the doe appeared to have gone down. But as the shot’s blast rang in my ears, deer raced ...

This story was originally published in the April 1989 issue of Outdoor Life. Jack O’Connor didn’t invent the .270 Winchester, but he might as well have done so, because for more than 30 years he ...