Thread: .270 is the best caliber ever made.

There is nothing out of fashion about a skinny 130 grain 7mm bullet at 3100 fps.

If we invented it today it would be a wonder hit. Marketing would call it the .277 Precision Annihilator. Delta Force would adopt it as a sniper round. Long range people would talk confidently about its performance at 800 metres with NASA-made bullets, and how many clicks are required for a stag or a hind. Kiwi blokes would cut the barrels down to 14 inches and post on forums about how it actually adds velocity to their loads. Other people would make statements on the internet about how you can recover all your lost velocity from your short barrel by just using a faster powder. Probably AP70N or Unique. Suppressors would go on, making the short barrels longer again but at the same time making rifles lighter and handier, and making the deer run towards them and not away, as if the shot makes their ears fall off.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

There is nothing out of fashion about a skinny 130 grain 7mm bullet at 3100 fps.

If we invented it today it would be a wonder hit. Marketing would call it the .277 Precision Annihilator. Delta Force would adopt it as a sniper round. Long range people would talk confidently about its performance at 800 metres with NASA-made bullets, and how many clicks are required for a stag or a hind. Kiwi blokes would cut the barrels down to 14 inches and post on forums about how it actually adds velocity to their loads. Other people would make statements on the internet about how you can recover all your lost velocity from your short barrel by just using a faster powder. Probably AP70N or Unique. Suppressors would go on, making the short barrels longer again but at the same time making rifles lighter and handier, and making the deer run towards them and not away, as if the shot makes their ears fall off.

Acerbic sod today aren't we......... can't fault a goddamn word of it! Needs posted on some of the yank sites, plenty of clicks then, just on all the unfortunate mouses, not stags and hinds......