Recent content by kerymac

So Christian my man, have you about had enough fun with this? My last thought on the matter is that I know I would have been just as happy with a 30-06 all these years for use on just about everything, but like having had a wonderful old dog, I am very glad I got to know my .270. It has never...

Federal makes a dandy 150-grain Nosler bullet load for the .270. It groups right with my handloads with the same bullet, so I assume it produces about the same velocity although I have not chronographed it. My handloads chronograph at 2900 fps. out of a 22" pre-64 Model 70. If you would like...

Ah sestoppelman, the voice of wisdom!

I have hunted and guided for big game in Wyoming for four decades and also hunted Africa, Asia and Europe and I know that I would not be able to tell the difference between the .270 and 30-06 with similar bullet weights and shot placement. But, I have never culled for gemsbok in Namibia, and so...

As a research psychologist I would love to put this to an empirical test. Human perception is notoriously unreliable and subject to all sorts of errors based on biases, faulty beliefs, etc. A good test would be to have you judge from observing game animals being shot and the resulting wounds...

I never cease to be amazed at how much time, thought, ink, etc., are expended on matters that in the end prove to be trivial. The endless debates about .270 (.277") vrs 7mm (.284") are a good case in point. Does anyone really believe that .007" in bullet diameter makes any meaningful...

After 40 years of hunting on several continents I have concluded that "killing power" comes down to two things: Bullet performance and shot placement. My old .270 with 150-grain Noslers worked fine on African plains game. After struggling with a Ruger M77 .458 Win for some time on the range, I...

I wrote an article for Gun World magazine a few years ago based on 30 years of hunting and guiding in Wyoming, and I concluded that of all the things I could observe (caliber, bullet weight, velocity, trajectory, scope power, etc.,etc.,) only two things seemed to make a difference: (1) bullet...

I checked my copy of this great old film (I first saw it at the tender age of 12 when it came out) and noticed that I was wrong about the supposed date of the tale. It was 1897, not 1893. But I am fairly certain now that Stewart Granger's large double is a black powder rifle, probably 12-bore...

On my one Africa hunt I took a .270 and a .375 H&H. I shot a buff with the .375 and everything else with the .270 (including a buff wounded by poachers' snares which charged us out of the bush while we were hunting plains game). This is perhaps one reason to consider always having at hand...

Reference for the Rigby 400/350 used in King Soloman's Mines (1950) is Guns & Ammo 1984, pg. 126, "The First Magnum Mausers," by Jack Lott. Pictured is the movie gun (although mis-captioned as a Whitworth) being fired by its owner, one John A. Feyk, who purchased it at an M.G.M studio auction...

I have it on good authority that the bolt action seen in the movie (1950) is a Rigby Mauser 400/350 (rimmed version) which was later autioned by MGM and is pictured in a Peterson pulblication many years later being fired by its then owner. Beautiful old gun, but is technically incorrect (1898...