.270 caliber for moose

[rick_iles]

I have personally killed and seen killed, more moose than I can remember. The 270 is MORE than enough moose medicine.

[Kilo Charlie]

What I just don't understand about this whole argument is how many times has the question been asked, "is the 30-06 good enough for moose?"
Yet time and time again the same is asked of the .270. Shouldn't that make one just a little suspect of its abilities?
So, why would someone buy a caliber for moose hunting when there are obviously better choices?

Ha ha ha! Sawbill, you get drawn into this one every year, LOL!

I think I'll side with you from now on....your tenacity is inspiring!

You need at least a .280 to kill moose.

[sawbill]

Thanks for the moral support KC. More like I get sucked in every month and I still don't learn to stay quiet. I think its a conspiracy.

[Hunter300]

Ha ha ha! Sawbill, you get drawn into this one every year, LOL!

I think I'll side with you from now on....your tenacity is inspiring!

You need at least a .280 to kill moose.

Thanks for the moral support KC. More like I get sucked in every month and I still don't learn to stay quiet. I think its a conspiracy.

haha you guys are too funny

[Kilo Charlie]

FWIW, my older brother lives in BC and has killed maybe a dozen moose, one shot each from his .270. All his shots have been less than 100 yards so good bullet placement was do-able every time.
To be truthful, I have a .280 that I use as a combo rifle for deer, bear, and whatever, including moose. But if I had ever lived where moose were the only game in town, I'd likely have bought a .30-06 instead. Small difference, really. Good thing I came from Kenora and not Red Lake.

[sawbill]

Just be grateful you're not from Ignace. One never knows what that water from the Wabigoon could do to a man.

[9.3mauser]

I wonder what Jack O'Conner would say about a 270. All the magnum, short magnum caze is just marketing. Love to load a dummy round stick it in your clip and watch the flinch show. Each to there own but the 270 is a killing machine in the right hands.

What Jack O'Connor actually wrote was:

" I do not consider the .270 an ideal moose rifle, in spite of the fact that I have killed four moose with the .270 and have never lost one. Particularly for woods hunting I should like to have a heavier bullet of larger diameter so that a good blood trail would be left at the point of entrance. When a man catches a bull moose up above timber line, where he can kill him in sight, the .270 is perfectly adequate, but in the woods it might be a different story."

The Rifle Book.

[kickingfrog]

Power is force x velocity. That's it.

Hockey commentators love to say player xyz has a does have the fastest shot but a "heavy shot". Nope, speed is speed, the puck is always the same weight.

[contaucreek]

Good old Jack took thousands of game and hunted virtually every continent in the world. How can you compare his record to a guy who's taken how many.......one..........two...........any animals??

Although it is miles away from where I am now, I have Jacks book The Rifle and in it he wrote that his moose were NOT one shot kills with the .270 IIRC.

[jaycee]

Power is force x velocity. That's it.

Hockey commentators love to say player xyz has a does have the fastest shot but a "heavy shot". Nope, speed is speed, the puck is always the same weight.

Yes speed is speed , however when you increase the velocity you also increase the energy.
A 150 grain bullet at 2900 fps. has much more energy than the same weight bullet at 2200 fps.