Way back in 1982 I was in my last year of high school and attended a deer hunting clubs annual deer target shoot. I brought my new .30-06.

Now the .30-06 might have been the most popular hunting cartridge in the USA at the time and decades after. But in Australia the wonderful .222 was the most popular cartridge of the time. The .243 was the wunderkind cartridge in Australia.

At the shoot there was a wealth of .243s and.270s. I was the only one with a .30-06. i don't think there was even a .308.

Years later a shoot would have few .243s or .270s, 7mm mags, .300s, other 30s even .338s.

The .270 was a media darling and very popular, Why not? For fallow deer, feral goats and pigs, up to sambar deer, it works well. Flat shooting and mild recoil.

Loaded properly the .270, .30-06, 7x57 and similar are all in the same class, slight pluses and minuses.

I've never cared for the .270 calibre myself. Don't know why. Perhaps because it was the hyped Creedmoor of its day.

But also because I rightfully regarded the .30-06 as a more superior effective and alround cartridge, 110 grs to 220 grs. I planned a water buffalo hunt with my new .30-06 with the box or two of 220 gr handloads I purchased with the rifle. The following year did get up there but no buffalo, different story,