Would a .270 work for a deer and varmits? also is it a gun with some range? like could i take a 200 yard shot easy?
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Would a .270 work for a deer and varmits? also is it a gun with some range? like could i take a 200 yard shot easy?
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270 is a GREAT caliber. good for deer, elk, bear, etc. you can EASILY, easily take a 200 yard shot. you could easily take a 300 yard shot. just takes some practice. about the varmints, yes, you can shoot varmints with a 270. you can also shoot varmints with a 50 CAL! the only bad thing, is that with either of those 2 calibers, your prairie dog will be blown to bits.
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I have used my .270 to take deer and elk at ranges from 30 ft to 500 yds. As Clay likes to say, BANG, FLOP! It is also a very easy gun to shoot with minimal recoil. Everyone else is right there won't be much left of the varmints and you won't be getting top dollar for coyote pelts.
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In my opinion the .270 is probably one of the most popular and most effective deer guns of all time. 200 yards is a "gravy" shot in most hands. Don't forget that you do need to practice though. 200 yards is a long way for the inexperienced. Now, for varmints, if you are talking about coyote and such it would depend on what you want to do with the pelts. If you just want to make them dead, it is more than capable. If you want a marketable pelt left over...I don't know. Some deer that I have shot and seen shot with a .270 have a quite impressive hole in them.
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yes and yes the 270 is a very versitile round you can confedently kill just about anything you choose to hunt out to 400 to 500 yards easy and to solve the tearing up coyote pelts go to a lighter grained bullet such as sierras 90 grain hp or check out frangiblebullets.com they have a very nice 95 grain bullet that is copper and tin powders compressed into a bullet that shatters on impact and will not exit a coyote sized animal leaving the pelt intact its not all about caliber as some people believe its in bullet design and selection
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