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 ...

After years of the 6.5mm craze, we may be about to witness the .270 rising. Stated another way, it’s the .270’s turn. And we don’t mean the old .270 Winchester. Winchester’s original .270 of 1925 is ...

SIG SAUER, Inc. added 270 Win and 30-06 Springfield for precision handloaders. These join 223 Rem, 22-250 Rem, 243 Win, 270 Win, 30-06 Springfield, 300BLK, 300 Win Mag, 308 Win and 6.5 Creedmoor.

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 great as the 270 is—I ...

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 ...

Comparing the .270 with the 7mm Remington magnum is like comparing grits and white cornmeal. They’re pretty much the same thing. The latter round is a tad more powerful; so little, though, that any ...

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, ...