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If there's a class of cartridges that's in a league of its own, it's the .270-caliber family. For starters, it has only three members, and one, the .270 Winchester Short Magnum, is less than 10 years ...

Comparing the .270 with the 7mm Remington magnum is like comparing grits and white cornmeal. They’re pretty much the same thing. The latter round is a tad more powerful; so little, though, that any ...

There’s something intoxicating about the word “magnum.” It sounds powerful, decisive, and capable of ending any debate about ...

Not long after we rolled into the 21st century, one of the few truly groundbreaking cartridges to come on the scene in some time joined a short, fat upstart to form the basis for a small family line ...

Weatherby rifle aficionados believe Weatherby cartridges deserve more respect than we gave them during our recent exegesis on popular rifle cartridges. We mentioned Weatherby sparingly because few ...

After years of the 6.5mm craze, we may be about to witness the .270 rising. Stated another way, it’s the .270’s turn. And we don’t mean the old .270 Winchester. Winchester’s original .270 of 1925 is ...

My wife and I did a 30-day hunt in Bechuanaland in the summer of 1966. We shipped plenty of rifles and ammunition, but somewhere along the way the alumi­num gun cases in which I had shipped our things ...

This story, “The .270 in Africa,” was originally published in the March 1967 issue of Outdoor Life. Bechuanaland is now Botswana. My wife and I did a 30-day hunt in Bechuanaland in the summer of 1966.