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 ...

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 ...

The .270 Winchester will celebrate its 80th birthday in 2005. During its fourscore years of existence it has gained a worldwide popularity equaled by just a half dozen or so other calibers. While ...

If there's a class of cartridges that's in a league of its own, it's the .270-caliber family. For starters, it has only three members, and one, the .270 Winchester Short Magnum, is less than 10 years ...