Believe it or not I was able to shoot a 270 WSM and a 7mm rem mag side by side last night. Ran into an old archeryfriend at Sportsmans Warehouse and he let me shoot his wife's 270 and his 7mag. I really liked the 270. I took into consideration that a lot of you are saying the 270 is too light for elk, but the ballistics charts that he gave me to compare were very, very close on the 270 WSM and the 7 mag. I know very little about guns so maybe I'm reading this whole thing wrong. The 270 actually had a little morekenetic energythan the 7 mag at 300 yds. 270 WSM w/150 grain bullet2175 and 7 magw/160 grain bullet2015.(Got these numbers from the FederalPremiumbooklet.)