Sonof12 Report post Posted October 7, 2014 I'm 100% certain good ol' Jack O'Connor would have traded his trusty and favorite .270 for the .270 wsm and called it the new best round for North American big game (minus Moose and the big Bears) as well as African plains animals. It really is that good. I have never had problems cycling rounds and every animal I've shot with it (yotes, deer, elk) have dropped immediately, My current best round is a 140 gn (.496 bc) in front of magpro and fed 215's out of win brass. Shoots a tight 4 leaf clover print at 100 at close to 3200 fps. That round has proven itself to 1000 yards. I guess you could say I'm fond of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
10Turkeys Report post Posted October 8, 2014 Sonof12, Don't know for sure what Jack would say about the .270 WSM, but on March 2nd, of this year I was shooting a match at the Tucson Rifle Club with Eldon Buck Buckner, and since I had just got a .270 WSM, I ask Buck what would Jack think of them, his reply was he would have thought them redundant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sonof12 Report post Posted October 8, 2014 Redundant? I have both rifles and shooting what I feel is the ideal weighted bullet (140 gn), I could only safely muster up about 2950 fps out of the original 270. Now, with the wsm I can push the same bullet safely at 3150 fps. In shooting I don't think a +200 fps gain can be shrugged off as redundancy. But hey, to each their own. Happy shooting! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
