While you guys were reading Wikipedia - I was around when that cartridge was new,
when most of you were still pooping in your diapers, I was reading books like Shots at Whitetails and books written by Jack O'Connor - such as The Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns, The Big Game Animals of North America, The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America, The Complete Book of Shooting, and The Hunting Rifle..

My dad had about every book that Readers Digest offered written by him from the early 60's on.

If you read Jacks books, you would read that he said that the .270 Winchester was about the most perfect gun ever designed and claimed that you could shoot almost anything except the most dangerous game in the world with either a .270 Winchester or a 7X57 Mauser.

Back in his day, the bullets were not the best and he might have been one of the people who was the most responsible for the bullets that you shoot today. I believe at one time he was a bullet tester for Speer.

It's funny ...Deleted by CalHunter...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG

http://campsmoke.wordpress.com/2009/...-a-generation/

http://www.africahunting.com/content...-o-connor-734/