270wcf makes meat

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Took this deer on 11/13/24, one shot @ 55yds with Win PP 150gr factory ammo, dropped in his tracks. It was my fourth day of hunting, having only see couple does prior. But I'd had a camera on this spot since 7/13. Only pics entire time where of does fairly regular, plenty bear, yotes, n bobcats. Got first pic of a buck on 10/26, and 3 bucks on camera regular but all night pics. A nice 8pt, decent 6pt, and this buck. But this bucks body was way bigger than the 6pt and about identical to the 8pt, I got pics all three in same spot. But this played out just like I expected, cause I scouted it regularly starting in late Feb thru the spring squirrel season that ended in mid June. Plenty buck rubs, and does everywhere then! Reason being it's down low on mountain, doe sanctuary where they raise their fawns, and best no people sign period, it's close to the community. I knew bucks would show right at rut peak, and daytime when it peaks! Bucks for most part stay higher on mountain and especially the big boys, them a plenty on tops, but that's where all hunters would be.
I determined I would take first shot opportunity I got regardless of antlers, and he was on the rear 2 does at a steady pace when I saw em. He saw me, i was still hunting slowly and was facing me directly, 7:50am, so I put the + on center base neck, exact same shot I got last year. The 270 made mince meat all the neck meat, and stopped somewhere in the intestines. I didn't find the bullet, but know I lost it when field dressing.
This was my first ever deer shot with a 270Win and also with a scoped bolt action. Celebrating the 270WCF on eve of its 100th Birthday! I like it, love the rifle, hope to take several more with it!
The meat, which I process all my own, aged it quartered in coolers on ice a week, cause it was too warm to age with hid on hanging,

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is turning out as good as any I've ever had. I ate liver n onions every evening until gone, my favorite part, right with the Backstraps and the Sirloins almost as good! Rest I make into Stew Meat n Burger.

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The Mountain Mule brings it home again!

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[4t5]

Way to go , nice deer and caliber !

[Ragnor]

Great hunt! Nice eating buck.Thanks for the processing info. Awesome mule, like the tires. Do they work good compared to traditional atv tires?
Congrates!

[wvfarrier]

Congrats.

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Great hunt! Nice eating buck.Thanks for the processing info. Awesome mule, like the tires. Do they work good compared to traditional atv tires?
Congrates!

Most time any regular tire is fine. But I put these on for a special need. I'm constantly on old strip mining and logging roads, some been there 50-60 years ago. Places the water never completely drains, and they're literally quicksand. These tires are actually almost worn out, the grips in center tire almost smooth. I'll probably replace this year? But should've seen em new, they lifted the machine another 1.5". I've went thru places I know regular tire, I'd been stuck. I came very close to walking home this summer, a new place 1st time thru, and you'll get into trouble in place that just looks wet, but it's a hidden swamp.
I'll be replacing these with Maxis Bighorn. Radials that will out last these 2-3 times. I'm forced to travel lot on blacktop, and the radial Maxis Long proven here superior in service. But these have been as good a mud tire as ever made! I've gotten about 4,000 miles on them.

[Streetstar]

100th anniversary of the .270 as well !

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Yes it is Streetstar, and sure didn't withhold hunting the rifle until now, it just happened this way. I bought it 4/21, during height of ammo & reloading components troubles. I had 0 as far as 270Win ammo, bullets, and likely powders. I found some Hornady well worn brass, and eventually got few bullets to try and a can imr4831. But I could not get interested in this rifle? In my thinking I always wanted a 700 made in 60's-70's and it being in 30-06, this one made in 2012. After I got it started digging into Rem 700 info, and found they were frowned upon if made after I believe 2007, but like a more positive and 700 knowledgeable 700 fan told me, "unlike winchesters a 700 is a 700 regardlessof date of manufacturing". Next couple years I only shot it few times, and was not impressed. A neighbor asked to buy it, I said come get it and everything 270 oriented I have to go with it! Something happened? and he couldn't! So early 2024, I got the 270WCF bug and determined to make it Hunting Worthy! It soon dawned on me it's the Eve of 100 years of the 270WCF, and to boot the rifle is a 700 made in the 50th year of its origin, 1962-2012. Not that makes it anything special, but to me it did. In fact in 2012 Rem made a 50th anniversary special edition 700, but mine just a regular BDL, and I'm glad it is. Now I'm sure glad I kept it. It's by no means a tack driver, but it's plenty hunting accurate, and is just so sweet to handle & cycle and shoulder, & trigger pull. It's a good for me off-hand shooter in woods!
And my interest in the 270WCF sure has grown, even really admire it now, it being one those most rare of cartridges in origin!
My thoughts kinda before being, just something Win put together quickly to go along with the new Mod 54 Rifle it came out in. But after getting on the Winchester Collector's site, I found that Winchester had been working on it, forgive my memory, I think as early as 1917-18. But then in a new rifle which was known as the Model 51. And then it was called the 27Win. There was only few the Mod 51's made, saw a pic on the Win site of #1 it being labeled 27Win. But apparently they made changes in the rifle, next being the Mod 52, and maybe some tweaking of cartridge dimensions? But it eventually finally hit the market in 1925, the Mod 54 & 270WCF.
No one is exactly sure why Win decided to settle upon the totally new .277", making it a totally new rifle and bore! Actually very similar to the Mod 71 & 348 story, which defines Winchester then, their way or no way! And at that time the American Hunting scene was being most commonly overtaken by military surplus rifles & their usually most common, 7mm or 7.62mm. And the longer range capabilities becoming more desirable and clearly already by then, optical sights would be also the wave of the future. So to sell their first true bolt action & cartridge for it, they clearly had the right idea, and although it took many years to really become popular, Winchester had done it again!
Probably everyone is aware of the Jack O'Connor & 270WCF story, they rode into fame together!
That part never interested me toward either!
From my youth I was a admirer & reader of everything T. Roosevelt or T. Whelen, and what they used going all over N. America and across oceans!
But number years ago I read in Whelen's book "The Hunting Rifle", which he wrote? Late 40's or early 50's, that by that time, he declared that he considered the 270WCF to be for 98% of American game, the Champ of the most dropped in tracks kills! SHOCKED? Better than his beloved 06? He stated a good friend of his who used the 270WCF almost exclusively in B.C. & Alaska, who had taken many heads of Moose & B. Bear plus all other game with astounding DRT results, and all with the 130gr bullet! Whelen himself said he put a moose down the quickest he ever saw an animal die instantly with a 270Win & 130gr bullet! But he verified also the gain of using 150gr bullets, the small diameter long shank bullet always penetrated beyond comparison by averages when compared to other calibers!
But already well known, I'm glad I finally got a Remington 700 and tried the 270WCF in the process! It's a true WCF Winner!
But as to the "Why Winchester settled upon the .277" question? I got to in my own thinking, the already recorded success of Charles Sheldon in Alaska with the 6.5x54MS, shooting the long & heavy bullets, not to mention the fame of many in Africa n Asia using the same? No way another 7mm, the .277 will do it just as good probably better? They hoped!