ORIGINAL: bigbulls

My feelings about the .270 Winchester pretty much mimic James B's thoughts.

It is plenty enough powerful a cartridge to take every single species of deer this continent has to offer as well as other animals like pronghorn, sheep, mountain goats, etc...

There are only a few animals in North America that I would not feel comfortable hunting wtih it. Any of the BIG bears (grizzly, polar, and brown), and bison. Although the .270 can certainly kill these animals as well I would much prefer to have a larger and heavier bullet. The rest, such as moose, elk, black bear, caribou, mountain goat, sheep, deer, etc... are all well within the .270 Winchesters capeabilities.

This does not mean one will be effective hunting the larger animals with light weight thinly constructed bullets. A person needs to match the bullet being used to the game being hunted.