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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #311250 - 28/01/18 11:34 PM

So Rip your telling us your electronics felt inferior. I have a 270 and I just had to sit my TV down and have a hart to Hart.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #311302 - 29/01/18 07:29 PM

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NE forums go dead because of the .270?! Ha ha, what follow it into the grave? Ha ha. I don't think so.

This thread has been funny. A stupid concept, "Why I hate the .270" - a spurious "fake news" article, just designed to put some words on paper or monitor screens. And sell some advertising by the publisher.

Is it 'nation baiting' to say "the .270 is popular in the USA" but probably not so much elsewhere?





I had a .270 in my house once and my computer and television would no longer work until I removed it from my home..cell phone didn't work either...

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #312903 - 23/02/18 02:03 PM

A pretty strange article IMO.
The writer says that his hate for the 270 is based on poor kills and wounded game, experienced by himself and others over a long period of time.
Then he finishes up by saying that he still owns 'several' 270's and still hunts with them, despite the hating and the wounding!

Personally I've never found the need to hate the 270, or any other cartridge that I've used for that matter.
I do like some cartridges more than others though.
Never found the need to like or dislike a cartridge based on liking or disliking a particular gun writer either.

My first 270 was bought back in 1979, and since then I think I've owned and used a total of five different bolt rifles in that chambering.

I think anyone who is constantly having problems killing game with the 270 Win, must be having problems with bullet placement, bullet performance, or both.


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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: 4seventy]
      #328893 - 28/05/19 12:29 AM

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A pretty strange article IMO.
The writer says that his hate for the 270 is based on poor kills and wounded game, experienced by himself and others over a long period of time.
Then he finishes up by saying that he still owns 'several' 270's and still hunts with them, despite the hating and the wounding!

Personally I've never found the need to hate the 270, or any other cartridge that I've used for that matter.
I do like some cartridges more than others though.
Never found the need to like or dislike a cartridge based on liking or disliking a particular gun writer either.

My first 270 was bought back in 1979, and since then I think I've owned and used a total of five different bolt rifles in that chambering.

I think anyone who is constantly having problems killing game with the 270 Win, must be having problems with bullet placement, bullet performance, or both.




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Agree with all of the above.. sure made for an interesting post however.. pleasantly shocked at how many hits this post has received.. certainly one reason is the popularity of the .270..

Agree, certainly no reason to hate any cartridge based on the reasons given above.as you state, I like some more than others..but hate?? Have never really found a reason to hate any of them..

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #328902 - 28/05/19 03:05 AM

Well the article got five pages of threads ...

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: NitroX]
      #328904 - 28/05/19 03:33 AM

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Well the article got five pages of threads ...




Along with 11,400+ hits and counting..

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #328912 - 28/05/19 04:33 AM

Early on, I read an article by Jack O. wherein he stated that Canadian moose vere very difficult to kill. Now I personally know a guy who has killed several with a .440 round ball at ranges to about 75 yards using 75gr. of powder. His ball would be in the 2,000fps range, down to 1500 or so at 50 yards. A real powerhouse - not. Keith needed only 2 ball for each
Jack noted in his article he averaged 3.8 shots per moose. Funny that Eleanor needed only one from her 7x57 hmmm.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #328917 - 28/05/19 05:35 AM

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Well the article got five pages of threads ...




Along with 11,400+ hits and counting..




Now you ffffing bastard, all we need is childish insults and abuse, a proper fight thread, and we can triple that.

The reason NE is so slow is we don't fight. Seriously anyway.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #328918 - 28/05/19 05:38 AM

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Early on, I read an article by Jack O. wherein he stated that Canadian moose vere very difficult to kill. Now I personally know a guy who has killed several with a .440 round ball at ranges to about 75 yards using 75gr. of powder. His ball would be in the 2,000fps range, down to 1500 or so at 50 yards. A real powerhouse - not. Keith needed only 2 ball for each
Jack noted in his article he averaged 3.8 shots per moose. Funny that Eleanor needed only one from her 7x57 hmmm.




Yes for my one and only moose, a Norwegian one, I need a single bullet from Erik's 7x64mm.

Another hunter shot it or at it, three times, wounding it with one shot. My shot from furtherer up the hill found its heart. Makes a difference where you hit them.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: paradox_]
      #328921 - 28/05/19 09:45 AM

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Thank you, as I said earlier its " popularity" is essentially an American thing....and yep Walmart is where the 270 belongs, if it must belong anywhere






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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: rscott]
      #328931 - 28/05/19 01:37 PM

LOL
I've never owned one, however was tempted - once on a pre/64 m70. I found a nice 1936 m70 30/06 instead, so came out on top compared to a m70 in .270.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #328934 - 28/05/19 04:25 PM

I'd wait thill it was really dislike by all the modern cartridge lovers, before getting an old one in a classic pre 64 Win 70.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: NitroX]
      #328944 - 28/05/19 10:35 PM

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Well the article got five pages of threads ...




Along with 11,400+ hits and counting..




Now you ffffing bastard, all we need is childish insults and abuse, a proper fight thread, and we can triple that.

The reason NE is so slow is we don't fight. Seriously anyway.




I have been called worse by better...

If its numbers you want I am certain I can stir a few things up from time to time..

But prefer not to..

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #328985 - 30/05/19 06:07 AM

Articles like Towsley's are precisely why I have not bought/read any of the print mags in years.

.....and as to proper fight threads, insults, abuse, gnashing of teeth, low IQ, and complete bores, well that "other site" has enough of that for everyone.
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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: 3DogMike]
      #328986 - 30/05/19 07:13 AM

I agree - now - back to why the .270 is such a damned inferior round compared to the .30/06 (or any other round, for that matter).

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #328987 - 30/05/19 07:20 AM

Did I post this? This Kudu was shot last Sept. by a family friend, using her late mother-in-law's moose rifle, a Savage .270.
1 shot, and down.
I sincerely think Jack's problem can be explained in one of 2 possibilities. 1/. He either got 'buck fever' so bad he couldn't do anything else but fill the poor animal with holes, or - 2/. he was a damned lousy shot, obviously grossly inferior to his wife, Eleanor.

BTW- Tara is a hell of a good shot.



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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #328988 - 30/05/19 07:23 AM

Purely a lucky shot........everyone KNOWS that the .270 is barely even a suitable rifle for Chipmunks or tree squirrels.

Now seriously; very nice job on the Kudu.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #329000 - 30/05/19 10:35 PM

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I agree - now - back to why the .270 is such a damned inferior round compared to the .30/06 (or any other round, for that matter).




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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Ripp]
      #329009 - 31/05/19 02:46 AM

I should have added - she used a 130gr. TSX.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: DarylS]
      #329021 - 31/05/19 11:35 AM

Damn fine Kudu there.

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Rule303]
      #329148 - 05/06/19 09:01 AM

e26 by Steve Zihn, on Flickr

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: szihn]
      #329149 - 05/06/19 10:00 AM

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Sarg]
      #329150 - 05/06/19 11:43 AM

“Why I hate Bryce M. Towsley”. 😂

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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Postman]
      #329164 - 06/06/19 02:15 AM

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“Why I hate Bryce M. Towsley”. 😂






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Re: Why-I-hate-the- 270 -- by Bryce M. Towsley [Re: Postman]
      #329174 - 06/06/19 08:07 AM

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“Why I hate Bryce M. Towsley”. 😂




That is gold.:D


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