RE: tyoe bullet
Greets,
The person I hunt with regularly uses a .270. I can personally attest to this, the Ballistic silvertip ( I think Remington makes it) in 130gr is definately good to whatever range you can safely shoot it too. My patner took a 4x4 plus brow tines 2 years ago at over 400 yards, ( way farther than he shoulda been shooting ) and even though he didnt hit it well, ( hit the rear hips sucky shot embarrassed the hell out of him ) not only did the animal go down, and not go far, we found it within 30 yards from the spot he shot it. But also, even at that range it AND going thru both sides of the rear hips the bullet went clear thru it. ( Blew the begeesus out of the poor critters hips, bone fragments everywhere )
I wouldnt advocate risky shots like that, unless you know you can hit it right dont try, but I definately think in .270 you wont find a finer bullet than the Ballistic silver tip.
Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry