Thought the exact same thing. And that's a 50+ yr old round that every deer hunter in the world has. Guess those old timers half way knew what they were talking about and didn't need internet forums and marketing to tell them the latest and greatest round.

Seems everyone now is just going to throw a long bullet in old established rounds and throw its metric conversion caliber on the name plate and try to trick the public into thinking its the latest and greatest New "6.5 killer"

If most established calibers like 270, 30-06, 25-06, etc., had mass produced high twist barrels like all the new metric fad calibers do, they'd be "wonder" bullets as well.

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Posted by SportTiger1

Stonewall, LA

Member since Feb 2007

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Posted on 1/19/21 at 7:09 pm to Jack Ruby

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Seems everyone now is just going to throw a long bullet in old established rounds and throw its metric conversion caliber on the name plate and try to trick the public into thinking its the latest and greatest New "6.5 killer"

Pretty spot on.

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Posted by X123F45

Member since Apr 2015

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Posted on 1/19/21 at 7:24 pm to Jack Ruby

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If most established calibers like 270, 30-06, 25-06, etc., had mass produced high twist barrels like all the new metric fad calibers do, they'd be "wonder" bullets as well.

A .257 weatherby would certainly make the 6.5 turn tail... Imvho

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Posted by TigerOnThe Hill

Springhill, LA

Member since Sep 2008

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Posted on 1/20/21 at 12:09 am to Jack Ruby

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And that's a 50+ yr old round that every deer hunter in the world has. Guess those old timers half way knew what they were talking about and didn't need internet forums and marketing to tell them the latest and greatest round.

Your praise for the 270 Win is warranted. I don't mean to seem picky, but to appreciate the beauty of the 270 Win even more, we need to realize it's actually 95 years old.

I grew up reading everything Jack O'Connor wrote about the 270. It was no surprise that when I bought my first deer rifle at 17 y/o it was a Winchester Model 70 in 270 Winchester.