bigbulls

The .270 is a legitimate elk rifle. With the bullets available today like Barnes, failsafe, Nosler, the new bonded bullets, so on and so on in 140 and 150 grain weights the .270 makes a fine elk rifle. Of the six elk I have taken with my .270 only one remained inside the animal and that was a 140 grain TBBC that went through ribs, liver, lungs, and more ribs and stoped under the skin and it was dead within 75 yards.

Barnes makes a 180 grain bullet but a 180 grain bulet in a .270 can only be driven to about 2500 fps. One reason is the bullet takes up a lot of powder space and the other reason is the smaler the bore the less speed you will get out of a given weight bullet because there is effectively less bore area for the powder to burn in.

140 and 150 grain bullets of the premium variety will serve you much better than the larger 160 and 180 grain bulets in the .270.