270 Win

[KoedoePoesPienk]

I’ve shot Kudu and Wildebees with mine without any problems using regular old PMP 150gr. It got me thinking….Do I really need my .300 Mag?

What’s the largest game that you’d be comfortable shooting with a 270?

 

[Schüler Jumbo]

For me game up to between 300 lbs and 350 lbs to take ethical shots at all angles.

 

[jruby]

I would hunt any elk with a 150g premium bullet. Shot placement is always important. I would prefer a 30-06 though.

 

[HuntingGold]

My last two elk taken, both with the .270. The top bulls body was absolutely ginormous, a big Roosevelt bull. The bottom bull, an average sized Rocky Mountain bull. Both taken in Oregon, one west of the Cascades, the other east. Ive taken close to 20 elk with the 270 and one small bull moose. Oh .. and my last kudu...

 

[Ray B]

Using Bitterroots or current day bullets such as North Fork I consider the .270 quite handy for all non-large bears in North America or equivalent African plains game.

 

[Gomer]

I’d use a 270 on moose. I have a 150gr Partition load with Reloader 26 getting 3005 fps. My farthest shot on game, a bull Roosevelt elk, was taken with this load at 403 yards.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

A buddy's teenage son shot his first moose (40" bull) and a sow brown bear on a trip a few years back. Both were one shot kills, handloads with Partitions.

 

[pc3]

My son has shot Tahr in NZ and Wildebeest among other things. The speer hotcor 150gr really are a suprise packet I was thrilled how well they worked.

 

[BeeMaa]

My wife took this kudu with at 100 yards with a high neck shot using a 270WIN and a single 150 grain Swift A-Frame. It never took another step. That said, kudu and oryx are about as big as I'd go with a 270WIN and proper shot placement. I'd want something bigger for eland and zebra. Not that it can't be done, but I'd like a little more horsepower to do it.

 

[KoedoePoesPienk]

My wife took this kudu with at 100 yards with a high neck shot using a 270WIN and a single 150 grain Swift A-Frame. It never took another step. That said, kudu and oryx are about as big as I'd go with a 270WIN and proper shot placement. I'd want something bigger for eland and zebra. Not that it can't be done, but I'd like a little more horsepower to do it.

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Funny I shot my kudu in the neck too with a 150gr

Why do you feel you’d want something a little bigger for Zebra?

 

[M70375!]

I have never had any trouble killing elk with 270 and 130 gr interlocks.

 

[JG26Irish_2]

I am comfortable taking deer, elk, kudu sized game with a 270 as long as I am not shooting much further than 2-300yds. A quality bullet like a bonded Fusion or Scirocco or a Barnes TTSX would be my choice for the larger game. My 270 shoots the 130g projectiles the best but for larger game I think a 150g would be better.

But, given choices I would go bigger. I am leaving for a Canada Elk/Moose hunt soon and am taking two rifles and neither is a 270. 338wm loaded with 225g TTSX is my primary and 30-06 loaded with 180g Sciroccos is my longer range secondary. The 30-06 is running some hottish loads to get almost 2800fps MV. It is more accurate than my 270 as well. We will be hoping to call the Moose in to closer than 200y and so really should not need to use the smaller rifle.