I need a .270, which one should I get
06-18-2004, 01:30 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bar Harbor ME USA
Posts: 443
RE: I need a .270, which one should I get
Savage makes a youth model in 7mm-08. NEF makes a youth model too chambered in 7mm-08. You could get your wife and daughter their own guns with the NEF and be around your budget.
06-19-2004, 10:28 AM
#24
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Lawrenceville, GA
Posts: 111
RE: I need a .270, which one should I get
I dont think you will be dissapointed with the Savage. Just be sure to use a premium bullet in either 150-160 grains and with a little luck you will be eating some great steaks this fall.
06-21-2004, 05:08 PM
#25
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hampstead, Maryland
Posts: 179
RE: I need a .270, which one should I get
With the .270Win, you can go after anything in N.America save for the largest of bears. Sure, the 270Win can and has killed big bears, but I'd want a heavier bullet, were I to go after a Grizzly. But, for everything else the .270Win has a cartridge that will cleanly take them and at a range greater then what the 7mm-08 can handle. The variety of factory cartridges available for the .270Win is staggering and if you reload, the variety is endless. Add to that the fact that if you happen to be in a sparsely populated county, hunting, and run out of ammo, most every gas station that sells ammo will stock .270Win. Try doing that with 7-08, especially if you are hunting Africa!! Recoil: If the rifle fits you and you mount it properly, you can handle a .270Win.
06-24-2004, 09:02 PM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere in Michigan
Posts: 5,702
RE: I need a .270, which one should I get
The vangard in 7-08 would be a good choice for kids and women in that price range, or a savage 270. I like the 260 and 257 roberts best for light recoiling hunting gun.