re: .270 vs . 30-06

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I would consider it much like the 7mm to the 7mm-08

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huh? come again senor?

Yeah, I'm not feeling the 7mm reference either.

There is no right answer for this question. Just opinions.

Just step up to the 7mm and nothing moves after it get shots.

Hat, you may want to rethink your "power" argument.


And you "magnum" boys kill me.

Yeah Infidel knows where I'm about to go with that argument.

On a whitetail, I'll take light and fast over big and slow all day every day. I load 125gr Ballistic tips doing 3200 FPS in 30-06 that I defy you to top with a .270 for killing the shite out of a whitetail.

People who think there's only two rounds for the '06 are missing out on one of the most versatile rounds made.

I shot .30-06 for close to 17 years and just switched to .270 WSM.

My only reason for the switch was to do something different.

Yes. But because of him, the 270 vs 30-06 mvmt has consumed American deer hunting, leaving little room for new cartridges to break out until the "magnum movement" and honestly the "wsm movement". These are my opinions, of course. Too many excellent rounds out there, just that most of them really can't do any better then the ole war horse or Oconnor's 270. Actually, without oconnor, the 270win would probably have been as obscure as the 280.

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Didn't come along way after he was gone?

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Yes, and in factory loads, when you can find them, the .280 is not loaded up to the same pressures as the .270 and the 30-06 and thus, misses on some of its potential. The .280 debuted as a Remington cartridge chambered in the 742 and thus, it was loaded to lower pressures for the autoloader.

As to the original question, flip a coin.

However, I will say that in my personal experience, I find the 30-06 to be a much quicker killer. I'm not sure why and I know that really shouldn't be, but in my limited sample size of 20 or 25 deer shot with each caliber, I've never had one I shot with a 30-06 take more than one or two steps and until this year, I had never had one I shot with a .270 die right there.

I can think of one I shot with the .270 that I double lunged at about 125 yards. That deer ran nearly a quarter of a mile and then crawled up under a bush and died on its stomach. There was no blood and it was only because I knew the area so well and where the deer went that I found that deer. And even then, it was pure luck. I walked by it twice before I happened to look at the bush again and see it.