In real life, comparing the 30-06 to the 270 is comapring apples to apples. Take the best elk bullet for both, the 180 grain for the 30-06 and the 150 grain for the 270. The SD for the 30-06 bullet is about 271 while the 150 for the 270 is 279. Using these two bullets and the average velocities from the different manuals and you will see that at 400 yards, the 270 retains 1533 ME and the 06 retains 1475 ME. Would an elk feel the difference? I doubt it. Having used both rifles a lot, these results on paper seem to mirror the results in the field.

I love my 270.In my opinion, there is nothing else.I have used the 130 and the 150 Win. pp. I prefer the 150 because my gun groups better with them.Find some articles about Jack"270"Oconner and you will be very impressed with the 270.

I have a .270 and love it.I will never sell my .270 for anything.Five shots at deerFive dear makes for fivedead deer.

Heh, heh, heh....

Well, since you've stooped to quoting/referencing JOC....

"The .30-'06 has a wider range of usefulness than any other American cartridge"
---Jack O'Connor

"The .30-06, then is a fine all-around cartridge for the one-rifle man who wants to hunt everything---one of the world's most useful and versatile cartridges."
---Jack O'Connor, The Rifle Book

The 270 was his favorite sheep rifle!
So,as Paul Harvey would say.... "Now you know the rest of the story."

Sheep, speedgoats, goat goats, deer --- yep, pretty good medicene for them.
[Sacriledge, this can't be! I don't want to hear this!]
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Now what ole JOC may have shot with 270's in the course of garnering material for writing up articles could vary a lot, the 270 was his "bread and butter" cartridge for when it came to keeping money coming into the bank (along with his salary as a college writing professor).

HEH HEE HEE He also loved and wrote more about the 270 than any man alive.. So he loved at least three good rifles. The 30-06 the 270 and the 375 H&H. He was also a big fan of the 7x57 Mauser. He was a great writer and hunter and entertained many of us as young folks.

3 out of 4 ain't bad....
BTW, JOC packed a 416 Rigby in Africa for the serious stuff.

He also used and wrote much about the 375 H&H and considered it the best all around rifle in the world. If He wrote it, I read it. Didn't agree with all his writings but he provided lots of food for thought and things to test in the field. Like most gun writers, he wrote about most all calibers from time to time.

Avery sweet mid-bore IMO....
modest recoil, plenty of thump, reaches out there, robust.

One planet,
One rifle,
Holland's 375
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270 WILL make a great deer rifle for the initial poster, per his question, though.

270, two thumbs up.
Hollandx2's 375...two thumbs and I'll even give two toes for it. But the recoil gets just a slight hare more in a TC encore.