.277/ 300 win mag

Rie bread · Sunday at 1:04 PM

Surely the .300 win mag has been necked down the .277? Anyone know if this necking down of the .300 win mag?

MountainSqwabler · Sunday at 1:23 PM

You talking about something like the 270 Arnold mag?

Togwotee · Sunday at 1:43 PM

The 270 WBY is the same essentially. so why.

Rie bread · Sunday at 3:42 PM

Togwotee said:
The 270 WBY is the same essentially. so why.

Thinking about getting a .270 wby made me think about it.
Just curious if anyone had done it or seen it.

Togwotee · Sunday at 3:52 PM

I have a Bansner Sheep Hunter in 270 WBY and I love it. in a custom chamber they cut the free bore out and it makes them basically like any other cartridge. they do it on all the WBY chamberings I've seen.

Rie bread · Sunday at 4:21 PM

Togwotee said:
I have a Bansner Sheep Hunter in 270 WBY and I love it. in a custom chamber they cut the free bore out and it makes them basically like any other cartridge. they do it on all the WBY chamberings I've seen.

About the same cost as a weather mark V delux ?

Togwotee · Sunday at 5:30 PM

No, it's a full custom by Mark Bansner. but any good gunsmith will cut the chamber with no free bore.

There are many smiths that can do an excellent build to your specs. there's a guy in Bend OR that's building guaranteed tack drivers at very reasonable prices.

In production rifles the options are pretty limited in a 270 magnum.

3x2 · 2024-10-01T14:48:55-0600

My dad had one made. He got tired of resizing brass and had it converted to 27 Nosler.

Weiserbucks · 2024-10-01T14:51:26-0600

Togwotee said:
The 270 WBY is the same essentially. so why.

Brass availability would be one driving factor.

Togwotee · 2024-10-01T16:39:03-0600

You can buy or form 270 WBY brass, not a problem.

The 270 Nosler may make the most sense, but I'd rather have the 28 Nosler than any 270 magnum. the .284 caliber has been stealing the thunder from the .264 and .270 bores since 1962 and it always will.

Rie bread · 2024-10-01T17:15:19-0600

.277 just seems so American to me though.

Togwotee · 2024-10-01T19:24:55-0600

That's true, who doesn't love Jack O'Connor. but the 270 was really only a big success with his 270 Winchester. everything else in that caliber has just been an also ran.